Julia Lukshina's Nervous is forthcoming in Asymptote!

The good folks at Asymptote have accepted my translation of Julia Lukshina’s one-act Nervous for publication in the October issue! Very glad to see this piece come out. Нервы was read in 2016 in Russia (left, where it was a finalist at the 2016 Lyubimova Theater Festival) and Nervous was read in 2018 in the US at the ALTA conference in Bloomington. Startling to see how young an actor was cast as Ilona in the Russian version!

Vladimir Danay directed the staged reading of Нервы for the 2016 Lyubimovka Festival. (I couldn’t find the actor’s names, but they play Katya, Ilona, and Sasha/Announcer.)

Student director Eleanor Sobczyk (not pictured) directed a staged reading at ALTA41 in Bloomington, IN performed by student actors Zack Rocklin-Waltch (Announcer), Meg Barton (Katya), and Haley Rose (Ilona), all of the Indiana University Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance