ARE THE BENNET GIRLS OK? | The Public Theater

Are the Bennet Girls Ok?

By Emily Breeze
Directed by Eric Tucker

Raw, relatable, and wholly unstuffy, the critically acclaimed ARE THE BENNET GIRLS OK? by Emily Breeze comes to The Public this winter. Bedlam Artistic Director Eric Tucker directs this adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice that unbinds the canonical work’s characters from centuries of expectations, recentering the narrative around the relationships between the Bennet women.  

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Emily Breeze

Playwright

Emily Breeze

Playwright

EMILY BREEZE (Playwright) is a playwright and screenwriter based on the east coast; her plays include Mother Says She's Shocked Her Children Are Upset (Part 5), Whore And Wife, No She's Like a Genius, They Died From Their Wounds, and a collection of short plays produced for Fast & Furious and 7x7 at The Tank. Her debut short film, Shallow Water, premiered in 2023 at the Phoenix Film Festival, and was screened at the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, the Roze Filmdagen, and the Bridgeport Film Festival among others. Awards include the 2020/21 GreenStage Live Arts Artist Award for her play The Homewrecker (co-written with Marialena DiFabbio), and the 2021 Rising Artist Award for her play Hallmark. Residencies include Millay Arts, the Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow, Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Residency, and the 2022/23 Playwright-in-Residence for The Bechdel Group. She is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Yale University. BA Vassar College, emilybreeze.net

Eric Tucker

Director

Eric Tucker

Director

ERIC TUCKER Wall Street Journal DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR 2014/2021. “America’s Best Classical Theatre Director” WSJ.  Off-Broadway: Are the Bennet Girls OK? (NY Times Critic’s Pick); Music City (Drama Desk/Lortel nom Outstanding Musical); The Assassination of Julius Caesar; Arcadia; Fall River Fishing; The Winter’s Tale; Hedda Gabler; Persuasion; The Crucible; Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet; Pygmalion; Peter Pan; Vanity Fair; Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Lortel nom, Best Director, Drama League nom, Best Revival, 4 Helen Hayes awards including Best Director and Best Production); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drama League nom Best Revival, WSJ Best Classical Production 2015); Bedlam’s Saint Joan (NY Times/Time Magazine top 10; Off-Broadway Alliance Best Revival 2014); Bedlam’s Hamlet (NY Times top 10); Tina Packer’s Women of Will; New York Animals (World Premiere by Steven Sater/Burt Bacharach), Twelfth Night and What You Will (NYT Critic’s Picks); The Seagull (WSJ Best Classical Production 2014). Other: Henry IV parts 1 & 2 (TFANA); Angels in America: Parts 1 & 2 (Bedlam/Boston Elliot Norton Awards Outstanding Production) Caesar and Cleopatra (ASC); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (OSF); Pericles (APT, WSJ Best Classical Production 2017); Mate (The Actors’ Gang). Tucker resides in New York City where he is Artistic Director of Bedlam.