The Nosebleed

Following our 2022 performance of The Glass Menagerie from France's Odeon Theatre and our upcoming 2025 performance of The Mother from The National Theatre Brno, we are pleased to be presenting The Nosebleed, written and directed by Japanese-American playwright, director and performer Aya Ogawa.

The Nosebleed made its world premiere in the fall of 2021 at the Japan Society in New York after several years of development beginning in 2017. The production was performed at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center Theater in New York in the summer of 2022, and at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. in April 2023. The show also toured the United States during January and February of 2024, with performances in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Columbus. The Nosebleed received an Obie Award in 2023.

Born from an exploration of failure, The Nosebleed is an intimate autobiographical play that explores playwright/director Aya Ogawa's fractured relationship with their long-deceased and enigmatic father. Through a series of turbulent, absurd, and poignantly comic vignettes, Ogawa reveals the seemingly insurmountable cultural and generational gap between themself and their father, and the questions they face as a parent today. This darkly humorous, tender, and inventive play considers how we inherit and bequeath failure, and what it takes to forgive.