Second Stage Theatre Uptown Announces SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER for 15th Anniversary Season

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Christopher Burney, Uptown Curator and Associate Artistic Director) will present the world premiere of Chisa Hutchinson's SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER, , as part of the company's fifteenth annual Second Stage Theatre UPTOWN SERIES next summer. SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER recently made the 2016 Kilroy List, designated as one of 32 distinguished new plays by female and trans playwrights.

The play will be presented at Second Stage Theatre's Uptown home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre on Broadway at 76thStreet. SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER will begin performances in summer 2017.

"Since its inception 14 years ago, it has been Second Stage Theatre Uptown's mission to bring new works to the stage that speak to today's audience and provoke the minds of every generation. I am thrilled that we will bring the world premiere ofSomebody's Daughter to our audiences next season. Chisa Hutchinson, our Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence, exemplifies the kind of bold and truthful artistry Second Stage champions" said Christopher Burney, Associate Artistic Director and Curator of Second Stage Theatre Uptown.

Casting will be announced at a later date.

Alex is a fifteen year old Asian-American girl going to extremes to get her own mother to notice her. She's a dream child-- except to her parents who wish she was a boy. Luckily she finds a sympathetic ear in Kate, her irreverent guidance counselor who knows all too well what it's like to walk in Alex's shoes. As three generations of women find their identity in question, each needs to decide who makes the rules and what happens when you break them.

Playwright Chisa Hutchinson is the current recipient of the 2016 Tow Foundation grant for the creation, development and production of this new play through Second Stage Theatre. Hutchinson's socially probing plays, which include She Like Girls, Sex on Sunday, The Subject, Dead & Breathing, and Somebody's Daughter among others, have been presented by such venues as City Parks' Summerstage, the Lark, the National Black Theater, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and Atlantic Theater Company. She's won a GLAAD Award, the John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting, a Lilly Award, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, the Paul Green Award, a Helen Merrill Award, the Lanford Wilson Award, and has been a finalist for the highly coveted PoNY Fellowship. She's also been a Lark Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a resident at the William Inge Center for the Arts a New York NeoFuturist, and a staff writer for the Blue Man Group. Currently, she is a Humanitas Fellow, Resident Playwright at Second Stage Theater, and a proud fourth-year year member of New Dramatists. (B.A. Vassar College; M.F.A NYU - Tisch School of the Arts).

Four play packages, which includes Somebody's Daughter as well as Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education, Man from Nebraska, and A Parallelogram, are available for $170.

For more information call the Second Stage Theatre Box Office at (212) 246-4422 or visit at www.2ST.com.