Kira Mira, Deara
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Isaac
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SYNOPSIS
When Mel surprises her online pen pal Kira with an in-person visit, she discovers some devastating revelations about who she’s really been communicating with online.
PLAYWRIGHT’S BIO
Isaac is a playwright, director and acting teacher. He has been awarded the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Direction twice, and productions he has directed have been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, an Off Broadway Alliance Award, 29 NYIT Awards and six Planet Connection Awards. NYC Credits: Other Mozart (NYIT Outstanding Solo Performance), In Vestments (NYIT Outstanding Premier of a New Play), To Nineveh (NYIT Outstanding Production), Tar Baby (DR2, PS122), 52 Man Pick Up (Ars Nova, Edinburgh Fringe), AMP (NYIT Nominated for Outstanding Performance Art), I Used to Write on Walls and Rusalka. His work as a playwright has been produced in NYC, Albuquerque and Phoenix, and he has been published in the Smith & Kraus collections of Best Men’s and Best Women’s Stage Monologue collections in 2024 and 2025.
A BIT ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
When did you start writing plays? If you had a moment where you realized you wanted to write, what was it?
2019.
My mother was in a coma, dying.
It was write or die.
How did you come to write your OOB play? Was there a particular inspiration behind its creation? How has it developed?
I teach acting classes. I often invent a relationship and a scenario for actor to jump into and improvise. This play was inspired by an improvisation that Mel Mattos and Michael Corcoran did in one of my classes.
What are five words that describe who you are as a playwright?
Dark, absurd, heartbreaking, comedic, drama.
What/who are some of the major influences on your writing?
Jen Silverman, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Martin McDonagh, Bekah Brunstetter, Aaron Posner.
What’s one fact someone would never guess about you?
I was born on a Native American reservation in Wyoming.
What are some of your favorite plays?
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwest by Jackie Sibblies Drury, Wolf Play by Hansol Jung, Witch by Jen Silverman, Be a Good Little Widow by Bekah Brunstetter, Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner, Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.
Any new projects you’re working on or shameless plugs?
Currently workshopping my full-length fever dream Rita Hayworth and the Orson Welles Variations, and in September 2025, Theatre 4the People is producing a workshop run of my dark comedy horror take on Theseus and the Minotaur – The Ladder.
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