Max Silverman
Composer, Sound Designer
Tiny Father
by Mike Lew
directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
technical direction by Max Silverman
Thursday & Saturday – July 8 & 10 at 7pm ET
A slice-of-life comedy about parenthood: Daniel’s “friends with benefits” relationship comes to a screeching halt when he suddenly finds himself the new father to a months-premature baby. His guide in the strange purgatory of hospital living? A grizzled oversharing nurse named Caroline. Tiny Father began as a commission from the Audible Theater Emerging Playwrights Fund and is loosely based on playwright Lew’s own experience with a NICU baby.
Mike Lew’s plays include Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi at the Public, Donmar Warehouse productions; Public Studio, O’Neill, OSF workshops), Tiger Style! (Olney, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, and Alliance productions; O’Neill and CTG workshops), Bike America (Ma-Yi and Alliance productions), microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct, and Next Act productions). He is the co-bookwriter of the musical Bhangin’ It (upcoming La Jolla Playhouse; Kleban and Richard Rodgers Awards; Jerome Robbins Project Springboard and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat “Triple R” workshops). He is a Tony voter, Dramatists Guild Council member, and a resident of New Dramatists. Honors include a Mellon National Playwrights Residency at Ma-Yi and La Jolla Playhouse Artist-in-Residence, both with Rehana Lew Mirza and just received a Guggenheim Fellowship.