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Finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
Kelly K. Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter are in love. Kelly K. Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter skate and smoke and taste one another’s fingers and snort molly and try to pick a name for their rap group. And then there’s their personal demons: Kelly exorcized hers a long time ago, but Quentavius’s is named Lemon Pepper Wings, and she-he-they is the patron demon of the intimate, and they-he-she created pheromones for their her his graduate thesis, and astrology and all the apps, and the concept of independence, and she-he-they force Kelly and Quentavius to face themselves, in an abandoned pool, alone, in the middle of the galaxy. With live skateboarding and original lyrics by Free Fool: Bowl EP.
"Bowl EP offers an extended playtime for queer Black people…a poignant and memorable new work."
—Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times Critic's Pick
"Compelling, and at times, unbearably poignant. It’s as if Hassan is applying an older adult’s awareness of that youthful longing back upon those characters, and making us watch as the weight of what couldn’t have happened smashes into them with the force of a hydraulic press crushing a plastic doll."
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture
"Extraordinarily imaginative, quietly beautiful, and suddenly devastating…a play whose aftereffects I suspect will linger in my brain for years."
—Zachary Stewart, Theater Mania
"Unconstrained by convention, Hassan’s prismatic practice fuses music, performance, image making and text to remember and imagine; to interrogate and excavate…Psychedelic and absurd, Bowl EP is also soberingly devastating. You feel it all."
—Xiomara Bovell, Live Cultures
"Nazareth Hassan’s Bowl EP is a hypnotic, messy calling card for their wide range of writerly ambitions, and even wider scope of inspiration…a psychic hellscape of trauma and personal misadventure."
— Theatrely Editorial Board
Nazareth Hassan is a writer, director, musician, and performer. Performance and theater works include Bowl EP at The Vineyard Theater, Untitled (1-5) at The Shed (text published by 3 Hole Press), VANTABLACK at Theatretreffen Stückemarkt in Berlin, Security Theater at Judson Memorial Church, Practice at Playwrights Horizons, and Memory A at Museo Universitario del Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City. Their first interdisciplinary book, Slow Mania, will be published in 2025 by Futurepoem. In 2022-2023, they were the dramaturg at the Royal Court Theatre in London. They were a 2023–25 Jerome Hill artist fellow and the Tow Playwright in Residence at The Vineyard Theatre. Upcoming: Practice at Playwrights Horizons.