Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf

Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf is a new play written by Kate Scelsa for ERS, directed by John Collins, and featuring a cast of ERS veterans.

A sharp-witted parody of a celebrated American drama, Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf is, in turns, loving homage and fierce feminist take-down. In her re-working of Edward Albee’s classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Kate Scelsa’s incisive and hilarious reinvention of the play’s iconic female lead slyly subverts the power dynamics of the original play’s not-so-happy couple. In the end, no one will be left unscathed by the ferocity of Martha’s revenge on an unsuspecting patriarchy. 

Kate Scelsa’s debut novel Fans of the Impossible Life has been translated into nine languages and was an Indie Next and Rainbow List Top Ten Pick. Kate is a 2016-2017 New Georges Audrey Resident, and her writing for theater has been seen at the Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, BAX, and Five Myles. She has been an ERS company member since 2002, and has performed with the company in Gatz, The Sound and the Fury and The Select (The Sun Also Rises).

ERS’s production of Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Wolf is generously supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by Howard Gilman Foundation. This work was commissioned by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and developed in part at the Access Theater Residency Program, and is generously supported by The Lehoczky Escobar Family, and Lee and Fritz Michel.

…bubbles with a love of theater at its most brazenly theatrical.

—Ben Brantley, The New York Times