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Mona Pirnot by Jenny Anderson
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I Love You So Much I Could Die

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Written and performed by Mona Pirnot
Directed by Lucas Hnath

2023/24 Season

February 1, 2024—March 9, 2024

The performances runs approximately 65 minutes with no intermission.
CONTENT TRANSPARENCY:In an effort to care for our community, we’re sharing details about this production that may be sensitive for members of our audience. The following information may reveal plot points.
I Love You So Much I Could Die discusses processing grief, medical trauma and mortality. If you have questions or concerns, please email LetsChat@nytw.org.
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I Love You So Much I Could Die is part concert, part play, intricate and intimate, wry and tender, elemental and wholly unforgettable. Through monologues performed by a computer and songs performed by the playwright, NYTW Usual Suspect Mona Pirnot wrestles with the private and unspeakable in a very public way. NYTW Usual Suspect and Tony Award nominee Lucas Hnath directs.

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Due to the intimate nature of the performance, there is absolutely no late seating. We strongly encourage you to allow extra travel time. There will be no re-seating once the performance begins.

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CAST / CREATIVE

  • Mona Pirnot

    Mona Pirnot is an NYC based playwright and songwriter. She is a current member of EST/Youngblood.Her work has been produced by or developed with Playwright’s Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mosaic Theatre, San Fransisco Bay Area Theatre Company, Mirrorbox Theatre, Premiere Stages and Mile Square Theatre. She was the 2014-15 Literary Fellow at Center Theatre Group and Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2019 Playwright in Residence. She is the winner of the 2022 Berwin Lee & Brown Playwrights Award and is currently nominated for the 2023 Helen Hayes / Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical for her play, Private (2023 SFBATCO, 2022 Mosaic Theater, 2022 Mirrorbox Theatre, 2Hi 019 Kilroys List).

Mona Pirnot / Playwright

Mona Pirnot is an NYC based playwright and songwriter. She is a current member of EST/Youngblood.Her work has been produced by or developed with Playwright’s Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mosaic Theatre, San Fransisco Bay Area Theatre Company, Mirrorbox Theatre, Premiere Stages and Mile Square Theatre. She was the 2014-15 Literary Fellow at Center Theatre Group and Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2019 Playwright in Residence. She is the winner of the 2022 Berwin Lee & Brown Playwrights Award and is currently nominated for the 2023 Helen Hayes / Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical for her play, Private (2023 SFBATCO, 2022 Mosaic Theater, 2022 Mirrorbox Theatre, 2Hi 019 Kilroys List).

Lucas Hnath / Director

Lucas Hnath’s plays include Dana H., The Thin Place, Hillary and Clinton, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Red Speedo, The Christians, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac’s Eye and Death Tax. He has been produced on Broadway at the John Golden and Lyceum Theatres; Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Ensemble Studio Theatre; and premiered work regionally at the Goodman, Center Theatre Group, Humana Festival of New Plays, Victory Gardens, and South Coast Repertory. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Awards: Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kesselring Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Obie Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Windham-Campbell Literary Prize, Lucille Lortel Award and a Tony Nomination for Best Play. 

Mimi Lien / Scenic Design

NYTW: The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World. Broadway: Sweeney Todd; Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Tony Award); True West; The Lifespan of a Fact. Upcoming: Uncle Vanya (LCT), Gatsby (A.R.T.). In 2015, she was named a MacArthur Fellow, the first set designer to achieve this distinction.

Enver Chakartash / Costume Design

NYTW debut. Broadway: A Doll’s House, Is This A Room. Off-Broadway: Stereophonic (Playwrights Horizons), Public Obscenities (Soho Rep), The Trees (Playwrights Horizons), Wolf Play (MCC/Soho Rep), Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons), English (Atlantic Theater Company/Roundabout Theatre Company). Film: Reality (HBO).

Oona Curley / Lighting Design

NYTW: runboyrun & In Old Age, Semblance. Recent: Penelope (HVSF), The Whitney Album (Soho Rep), Dark Disabled Stories (Public/Bushwick Starr), The Appointment, SPEECH, Underground Railroad Game (Lightning Rod Special), f*ck7thgrade (Wild Project), At the Wedding (LCT3), Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova), Notes on my Mother’s Decline (PlayCo). www.oonacurley.com

Mikhail Fiksel / Sound Design

NYTW: How to Defend Yourself; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord. Recent: Dana H. (Broadway), Tambo and Bones (Playwrights Horizons), Cambodian Rock Band (Signature Theater), Sanctuary City, No Man’s Land, 1919 (Steppenwolf Theater), various projects with Audible Originals. Upcoming: Mexodus (Baltimore Center Stage), Uncle Vanya (Lincoln Center). Proud member of USA and TSDCA. www.mikhailfiksel.com

Noel Nichols / Sound Design

NYTW: How to Defend Yourself (Assoc.). Recent: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Baltimore Center Stage), Avaaz (South Coast Repertory), Which Way to the Stage (Signature DC), Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage/Syracuse Stage), FADE (Audible Theater), Mojada (Indianapolis Shakes). Sound Associate with UptownWorks. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Will Butler / Music Director / Additional Music Arrangement

NYTW debut. He is an Oscar-nominated, Grammy-winning musician. With the band Arcade Fire, he released era-defining records such as Funeral (2004) and The Suburbs (2010) and scored the Spike Jonze film Her. He wrote the songs for David Adjmi’s Stereophonic (Playwrights Horizons 2023, Broadway 2024). His latest record is Will Butler + Sister Squares.

Shelley Miles / Stage Manager

NYTW: Merry Me, american tele(visions), Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Hadestown, What’s It All About?: Bacharach Reimagined. Select Credits – Broadway: Ain’t No Mo’, Dana H., Is This A Room, The Ferryman, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Violet. Off-Broadway: Letters from Max, Tumacho, Soft Power, Harry Clarke, The Outer Space.

Jo Fernandez / Assistant Stage Manager

NYTW: Hadestown. Broadway: The Ferryman, Head Over Heels. Off-Broadway: School Pictures, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons), The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special) and Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova); other productions at St. Anne’s Warehouse, MCC, Second Stage, The Public, and MTC. Regional: Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and NY Stage & Film.

Jack D. Coen / Musician

NYTW debut. Composer & Lyricist, BMI Lehman Engel Workshop. 2018 Harrington Award recipient for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre Writing. 2024 finalist for Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre Writing. Organist and Music Director, Church of the Epiphany. Former Organist and Music Director, Temple Emanu-El. Adjunct Lecturer, CUNY Baruch College.

NEWS

When the Voice You Hear Is Not the Actor You See

New York Times

Playwright and performer Mona Pirnot and director Lucas Hnath sit down for a wide ranging conversation with Michael Paulson at the New York Times to discuss how sound plays a role in I Love You So Much I Could Die .

"Everything that's included in the show is very intentionally to report on the experience of when life breaks open and completely falls apart, and what do you do with all the pieces."

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A Trio of Perspectives

3Views

“I was in the presence of something strange and exquisite, something that would not just happen in front of me, but that would require something from me." - Jen Silverman
"The form of this play is beseeching us: Don’t look at me, but I need you to bear witness. I am unable to speak, but I have a story to tell you." -Kate Cortesi
"The text-to-speech tool is a heartbreaking and integral part of Mona’s story. Bold, inventive decisions have been made." -Danny Tejera

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NYTW BLOG

In Conversation: Will Butler & Mona Pirnot

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Hear The Title Song of I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I COULD DIE

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