What We Found
What We Found
by Molly Olis Krost
Daniel and Giselle are cousins facing the daunting the task of cleaning out the garage of their grandparent's home. When their estranged cousin Maggie arrives, desperate for insight into the Jewish ancestry she never knew their family had, Daniel and Giselle must go to great lengths to hide their true purpose of searching the garage. A play about mixed-raced identity and how we choose to define "family."
Playwright Molly Olis Krost
“I’m thrilled that this play poses questions about the complex interplay between race and Jewishness, questions at the heart of what the JPP is about. These are the critical, 21st century issues that need to be on our stages. I’m so excited for our community of readers to dive into this play.”
Development:
2018 San Francisco State University, Fringe Goes Long
JPP Development:
2021 Jewish Playwriting Contest
Molly Olis Krost is a Filipina Jewish playwright based in the Bay Area. Her plays explore the constant collisions of the human experience: collisions with others, with our society, and within ourselves. Her play NANAY was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her plays have been performed or are forthcoming at Z Space, San Francisco Playhouse, PlayGround, The Parsnip Ship, Clutch Productions, MaArte Theatre Collective, Ain’t I A Woman Playfest, SOMArts Cultural Center, and SFSU Fringe. She was awarded the Gita Specker First Place Award for Best Dramatic Monologue by the San Francisco Browning Society. Her writing has been published in {m}aganda magazine and she is the co-creator and editor of the zine Bowlcuts and Boba. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University. When not writing, Molly enjoys painting, baking, crafting, and misquoting song lyrics.
