Red Theater and City Lit present
You Deserve to Be Here
a world premiere by Alex Lubischer
directed by Jonathan L. Green
Graphic design by Max Kleiner
City Lit Theater
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Ave
July 2 - August 7, 2027
Mondays & Thursdays - Saturdays @ 7:30P, Sundays @ 3P
Previews June 25 - July 1
Meet the “Tragedy Cohort”: Memo survived a war. Oona lost her sister. And Chase is a legacy student with anxiety. Only one can win their grad school’s top prize, bestowed upon whoever pens the Bravest Trauma Narrative. But as Oona, the newbie, advances through the school year, she can’t shake the feeling that something is off. Her writing is better, so why is she worse? And did that mural of Anne Frank just move? A horror comedy about artistic tragedy.
About the playwright
Alex Lubischer is a queer Midwestern playwright and screenwriter, born and raised on a farm in Nebraska. He lives in Chicago.
His plays include Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre Company, Steep Theatre, Jeff Award Winner: Outstanding New Play), Pivot (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Yale School of Drama, GPTC New Play Conference 2024, Jeff Award Nominee: Outstanding New Play), You Deserve to Be Here (Red Theater + City Lit Theater CoPro, Goodman Playwrights Unit commission, Roundabout Theatre Laura Pels commission, The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting - Longlist), Do Wasps Have Desires? (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Weird Kids (Haven Chicago), The Quonsets (Yale Cabaret, co-written with Majkin Holmquist), and Survey No. 5 (House of International Theatre, Copenhagen). He is currently working on a new play commission from Raven Theatre.
Lubischer is a former Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout Theatre Company. He has developed new work at Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Page 73, The Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Victory Gardens Theater, First Floor Theater, Red Theater, The Understudy, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has been a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and a three-time finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Current screenwriting projects include Big Dave, an hour-long TV pilot co-conceived with Danilo Gambini—Hyperobject Industries is attached to produce—and The Deep End, a bi coming-of-age comedy feature co-written with Hanna Kime.
Lubischer is the Lecturer in Writing for Performance at the University of Chicago. He has also taught playwriting at DePaul University and Bramble Theatre in Chicago.
MFA: Yale. BA: University of Southern California.