“As soon as I read this brilliant and hilarious play I knew audiences would love the ride.”

- Cindy Chupack, award-winning TV writer/producer ) Sex and the City, Modern Family, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Fleishman is in Trouble)

Dybbuk Bat Mitzvah is a raw, open-hearted coming-of-age story that riffs on ancient Jewish folklore with intimacy and precision, tracking the terrors and triumphs of girlhood. Dybbuk Bat Mitzvah was a finalist for the Jewish Plays Project 14th National Jewish Playwriting Contest and a winner of the Los Angeles and Berkshires Jewish Playwriting Contests.

The reading runs approximately 100 minutes with no intermission. Dybbuk Bat Mitzvah is written by Becca Schlossberg and directed by Illana Stein.

Becca Schlossberg (Playwright) is a Jewish, award-winning, non-binary, plant daddy/writer/performer. They are best known for their play, JUST LIKE I WANTED (Playscripts), a drama about teen suicide, which has been performed around the world. Other plays include DYBBUK BAT MITZVAH (Jewish Plays Finalist), WHIPPING BOY, MORE, DISCUS (Samuel French; Drama Book Shop recommended work), THE UNTOLD YIPPIE PROJECT (Samuel French), 3BOYS (Original Works Publishing), FOREVER FRIENDS (Playscripts) and many others. Becca was recently featured on the Drama Book Show, a podcast presented by the Drama Book Shop in NYC. They are a 2026 recipient of an NYSCA Support for Artist Grant and an Alfred P. Sloan New Play Commission, as well as a proud alum of Page 73’s Writer’s Group, EST’s Youngblood, The Amoralists Wright Club, Drew University, and the New School for Drama. In the works: their first novel, THE CLEARING and a play about the Kellogg brothers. www.beccaschlossbergplaywright.com @Schlossbossfun for all Schlossberg-related fun.

Illana Stein (she/her) is an international theater director based in NYC. Directing: Julius Caesar Tour (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), A Lost Leonardo (Amphibian Stage), Hans & Sophie Director/Co-writer (Outstanding Director & Play, Amphibian Stage) Workshop Director of Stages in Wellington, New Zealand (Hannah Playhouse). Off-Broadway, Associate Director: Tamburlaine the Great (dir. Michael Boyd) and Pericles (dir. Trevor Nunn) at Theatre for a New Audience, and Fingersmith (dir. Bill Rauch) at American Repertory Theater. Assisting: OSF, Signature, Pearl, Yale Rep, NYSAF, Hangar, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Cincy Shakes. Frequent guest director for NYU Tisch / Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Award for Excellence in Directing for FringeNYC for or what she will by Charly Evon Simpson, Drama League First Stage Residency, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, League of Professional Theatre Women former board member, and Director of Artistic Programs for Jewish Plays Project. Upcoming: A Little Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona (Two River) illanastein.com.