Theatre Projects, the McCarter Theatre, Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, Midwest PlayLabs, En Garde Arts/P.S. Her plays have been workshopped by San Jose Rep, GeVa Theatre, Bread Loaf, Sundance Theatre Lab, A.S.K. Iizuka's plays have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville Berkeley Repertory Theatre Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco the Dallas Theatre Center and Undermain Theatre in Dallas Park in Austin Printer's Devil and Annex in Seattle NYSF/Joseph Papp Public Theatre, GeVa Theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Soho Rep, and Tectonic Theatre in New York San Diego's Sledgehammer Theatre Northern Light Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta Alternate Theatre in Montreal and the Edinburgh Festival. Her other plays include 36 Views Polaroid Stories Language of Angels War of the Worlds (written in collaboration with Anne Bogart and SITI Company) Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls Tattoo Girl and Skin. Naomi Iizuka's most recent play, 17 Reasons (Why), was produced at Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts and published by Stage and Screen in the anthology Breaking Ground: Adventurous Plays By Adventurous Theatres, edited by Kent Nicholson.
Their language mixes poetry and profanity, imbuing the play with lyricism and great theatrical force.
Like their mythic counterparts, these modem-day mortals are engulfed by needs that burn and consume. Informed, as well, by interviews with young prostitutes and street kids, Polaroid Stories conveys a whirlwind of psychic disturbance, confusion and longing. Serpentine routes from the street to the heart characterize the interactions in this spellbinding tale of young people pushed to society's fringe. Inspired in part by Ovid's Metamorphoses, Iizuka's Polaroid Stories takes place on an abandoned pier on the outermost edge of a city, a way stop for dreamers, dealers and desperadoes, a no-man's land where runaways seek camaraderie, refuge and escape. "All these stories and lies add up to something like the truth." But whether or not a homeless kid invents an incredible history for himself isn't the point, explains diarist-of-the-street Jim Grimsley. Not all the stories these characters tell are true some are lies, wild yams, clever deceits, baroque fabrications. A visceral blend of classical mythology and real life stories told by street kids, Naomi lizuka's Polaroid Stories journeys into a dangerous world where myth-making fulfills a fierce need for transcendence, where storytelling has the power to transform a reality in which characters' lives are continually threatened, devalued and effaced.
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