This September, Atlantic Theater Company will feature the world premiere of the comedy Oohrah! by Drama alumna Bekah Brunstetter (Playwriting ’07) at Atlantic Stage 2, the company's second stage. The production will be directed by Evan Cabnet.
 
“I am so excited about this opportunity—and also have a small amount of fear,” Brunstetter responds to the announcement. “But mainly excitement! And also New School pride!”

Brunstetter wrote the first draft of the play a year ago when she went home to see her younger brother deployed to Iraq. It tells the story of two sisters seeking stability in Fayetteville, North Carolina—home to one of the South's largest military bases—and asks how we can remain true to ourselves when the pressures of domestic and military expectation threaten all. Oohrah! was originally workshopped at Ars Nova, New York City, as well as the Finborough Theater, London, as part of the Old Vic / New Voices play series.

“We did a reading of it at Ars Nova, where the current director Evan Cabnet got wind of it,” she explains, “and he brought it to the people at Roundabout Theatre Company, and they did a reading of it, too. From there, the Atlantic got a hold of it and here we are!”

In addition to being a two-time winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival, Brunstetter is also a winner of the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Original Full-Length Play. Her work has received acclaim across the United States and has been produced at Boston Theatre Works, the Ohio Theater, the Alliance Theatre, and many others.