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53rd State Press publishes new plays and performance texts that interrogate, challenge, renew, and emblazon the language of performance.
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Everybody get your tix to KarinneKeithleySyers's & Alaina J. Ferris's The Lydian Gale Parr, dir. by Meghan Finn, produced by The Tank & opening TargetMargin Theater on Apr 5! I want you to know: there are 10 singers/musicians, 4 dancers, and A SPATIAL INSTRUMENT thetanknyc.org/the-lydian-gal…


Thanks to our relationship w/ TCG Books (which means our books are distributed through Consortium Book Sales & Distribution), we are one of the very few small presses NOT impacted by the sudden closure of SPD. Please consider supporting the small presses you love--this is a dire moment for many!!!


In Haruna Lee’s bilingual SUICIDE FOREST, “a salaryman searches for self-worth, while a lonely teenage girl grapples with her sexuality in a nightmarish, male-defined society.” Drama from 53rd State Press and our #APAHM reading list: 53rdstatepress.org/Lee-Suicide-Fo…

Be sure to browse and bookmark our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth—featuring Codhill Press, Fonograf Editions, Small Harbor Publishing, Omnidawn Publishing, Read Furiously, Feminist Press, 53rd State Press & more indie presses! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

I'm performing my play THE INTIMACY flowchartfoundation in Hudson, NY on June 29 at 7p ET! It uses a slippery, shifting first-person plural to tell the story of a leftist choreopolitical collective. There's also some Buster Keaton, & laundry lines... eventbrite.com/e/the-intimacy…


Join us for BOMB Magazine’s Small Press Flea! 53rd State + 3 Hole Press be there, alongside many other lovelies!


Editor Kate Kremer's #uncollectedtrashcollection is The Tank on July 20 + 21 as part of DarkFest/TrashFest. Feat. Bryce Nice, Claire Fort, + Emily Kate Long, the play draws on the refuse of earlier writing projects. HOT GARBAGE! Come out! Tix: thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/unc…


Happy #WomenInTranslation Month! Celebrate with us by picking reads from indie publishers like 53rd State Press, Dorothy, a publishing project, Transit Books, Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social, Restless Books, Book*hug Press, Mayapple Press, Deep Vellum & more! #WITMonth clmp.org/news/a-reading…



On our #WITMonth reading list: GUÍA DE CAMPO DE iLANDing, translated from English by Alexandra Viteri Arturo and Alejandra Martorell, is a Spanish-language translation of A FIELD GUIDE TO iLANDing, published in 2017 by 53rd State Press! bookshop.org/p/books/guia-d…

Start your autumn with a brand-new book from 53rd State Press, Sarabande Books, apublicspace, artepublico, Fernwood Press, Swan Isle Press, First Matter Press, The Fabulist Magazine, or another indie publisher! clmp.org/news/books-lau…

From 53rd State Press for #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth: Lucas Baisch’s play 404 NOT FOUND is “a twisting, twisted work of intricacy, density, and despair netted in kidnap, virtual utopias, upended borders, and Freddy Krueger cosplay.” 53rdstatepress.org/Baisch-404-Not…

THE JAVIER PLAYS by Carlos Murillo contains essays and plays that “fold and unfold like America itself—its violence, its identity crises, its homegrown art, its shape in the eye of the immigrant.” A 53rd State Press book for #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth: 53rdstatepress.org/Murillo-The-Ja…

Don’t forget to bookmark our reading list for #HispanicHeritageMonth, featuring LittlePuss Press, @RoseMetalPress, @WavePoetry, 53rd State Press, @ravenchronic, Slant Books, SFWP, University of Tampa Press, @GreenWritersPub, Read Furiously, Long Day Press, & more: clmp.org/news/a-reading…