Zoë Rhulen's Princess Grace Award-Winning play, DIRT, will receive a workshop production at Arts on Site, directed by Tyler Christie! Help us support this playwright's debut!
DIRT is a play about three sisters who are planted in their mother's garden. They each make the painful decision to pull up their roots and leave the garden, not knowing if they'll ever be allowed to return. But they find home, and its dirt, difficult to outrun. DIRT won the 2025 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting.
This is a collaboration ten years in the making! Zoë and Tyler met as interns at New Dramatists in January 2016. Performances begin January 31, 2026. Help support their first production together!
This is a play about togetherness and community care. We could not do it without you. Thank you for being with us on this journey.
Perks! Donations include access to one or more of the following resources:
Playlist - songs that inspired us while making this play
Florilegium - a collection of quotations that inspired the play
Green Space Map - a digital map of our favorite public gardens
Further reading - a list of texts for further reading inspired by the play