THE MONSTERS: A Sibling Love Story
THE MONSTERS: A Sibling Love Story
written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu
World Premiere Co-Production with Two River Theater
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OFF-BROADWAY AT
New York City Center
2025-26 Season
For a long time, LIL has been obsessed with fighting, and one fighter in particular: her older brother BIG, an aging but successful figure in the local Mixed Martial Arts circuit. But she’s been doing it all from afar… until one day when she decides to show up on his doorstep. Written and directed by Ngozi Anyanwu (Good Grief, The Homecoming Queen, The Last of the Love letters) this world premiere is a sibling love story about reunions, resentment, reconnection, and wrestling with demons.
Creative
Ngozi Anyanwu
Playwright/Director
Ngozi Anyanwu is a multi-hyphenated storyteller, and most recently a 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winner. Anyanwu recently had the world premiere of her newest play Leroy and Lucy at The Steppenwolf Theatre, this fall of 2024. Previous productions include Last of the Love Letters (Atlantic Theater Company), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre in NYC / Center Theatre Group in LA) in which she also starred. The Homecoming Queen (sold-out world premiere run at the Atlantic Theater). Good Grief was on the Kilroys List 2016 and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and won the Humanitas Award. The Homecoming Queen was on the Kilroys List in 2017 and was a Leah Ryan Finalist. Her play Nike… (Kilroys List 2017) was workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark and The Strand Festival in conjunction with A.C.T and Space on Ryder Farm. Ngozi also has been commissioned by NYU, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, The Atlantic Theater, and Steppenwolf. Anyanwu has also received residencies from LCT3, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Space on Ryder Farm, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, and Page 73. She attended Point Park University (BA) and received her MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego.
Ngozi Anyanwu
Playwright/Director