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PLAYS

ATTEMPTS

  • Excerpt workshop @ SalOn!/Life World, 2025

 

A chorus of voices joins a panel of electronic instruments to explore the subjective experience of an empire in its waning days. A new hybrid opera.

I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME

  • Reading @ The Brick Aux, 2024 - dir. Michael Herwitz

  • Reading @ Play Date at Pete' Candy Store, 2020 - dir. Rory McGregor

 

In southwestern Alaska, an increasingly confused engaged couple court their beloved roommate, a queer burlesque artist moving soon to "the lower forty-eight." A romantic comedy.

VERY BLUE LIGHT

  • Developmental reading @ Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, 2024 - dir. Kristen Osborn

  • Workshop @ UT Austin Dept. of Theater and Dance (UT New Theater Festival), 2023 - dir. Kristen Osborn

 

A trans woman in Marfa, TX was likely abducted by aliens, but her friends don't believe her. She seeks answers from the Marfa Lights, and discovers that she (and others around her) are extraterrestrial.

DIRTBAG STACKS

  • Reading @ Crashbox, Austin, 2022 - dir. Emily Moler

 

Horrifying and erotic episodes from a young woman's life come back to haunt her, in the style of the Grand-Guignol.

SIX YEARS OLD

  • Production @ The Paradise Factory, Corkscrew Festival, 2019

  • Reading @ The Bushwick Starr, 2019 - dir. Helen Handelman

 

Supported by a well-meaning caregiver and little brother, a trans six-year-old takes measures to accelerate their growth into an idealized version of their favorite fictional character.

POUND

 

A bar mitzvah candidate and his family ungracefully reckon with the institutional violence at an East Texas animal shelter.

ANTIGONE

a new adaptation of the "Theban Plays"

 

Anne witnesses her father's demise, tries to save her brother, and gets into hot water with Haemon's dad. An integration of all material related to Antigone and Ismene across Sophocles' retroactively-compiled trilogy.

SHORT PLAYS

O, THE HUMANITY

  • ?! New Works Festival @ The Brick, 2025 - dir. Mike Steele

  • Masters Salon Reading Series @ UT Austin, 2022

Astronauts colonizing Mars spar with whales colonizing the Mariana Trench. An ecoplay with music.

CALL ME VENUS

  • American Playwriting Foundation Time Capsule Series, 2020 - dir. Danya Taymor

Two queer teens hang out behind a Target and attend a funeral.

POLYCULE

  • Little Theater @ Dixon Place, 2018​ - dir. Rory McGregor

A series of emotional equations expressed in repeated language.

SNACK TIME

  • ¡Oye! Avant Garde Festival - JACK, 2017​

A gentrifying convenience store makes a case for itself.

F

MUSIC

GO HOME - with Travis Emery Hackett, Zak Houston, and Marlena Mack​

MOTHERCAT - with Zak Houston

sa_phne - ongoing solo electronic project

 

asmr4apocalypse - zavé martohardjono - Artists Space (New York, NY,) Segue Reading Series

Welcome to the Gun Show - Julia Sirna-Frest & Shane Chapman

City Winery, 2019​              

Exponential Festival @ The Slipper Room, 2018

ANT FEST @ Ars Nova, 2017

Saw Songs - singing saw - Fast and the Furious Fest - The Tank, 2017​

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS etc.

MacDowell Fellow, 2023

Summer Fellow, Sitka Fellows Program, Sitka, AK, 2018​

Travel Fellow, Fabrica de Pinsule/Center for International Theater Development, Cluj-Napoca, RO, 2016

TEACHING

"Deplatforming": Dramatizing New Perspectives on Post Capitalist Digital Labor, The School of Making Thinking, 2025

A new course at the intersection of contemporary theory and playwriting, asking students to consider their labor in capitalist and post-capitalist economies, and how scripts can serve as a site for building new class consciousness and solidarity.

Playwriting I, University of Texas at Austin, 2021-2023

A new playwriting course focused on building drafting skills, developing traditional and alternative dramaturgy practices, and gaining familiarity with the contemporary dramatic field.

EDUCATION

MFA in Theatre (Playwriting); University of Texas at Austin, 2023

Mentored by Annie Baker, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and Kirk Lynn.

 

BA Dramatic Literature and Performance Studies, New York University, 2016​

© 2025 Daphne Silbiger

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