Told as a memory play by Lisa, the onstage playwright, about her mother Ann, Well combines ideas of social activism, mind over body, and experiments in theatrical form. As Lisa recounts her childhood in Lansing, Michigan, and beyond to answer the question “What makes us WELL?”, her planned “multicharacter theatrical exploration of issues of health and illness both in the individual and in a community” spins hilariously out of control.

Well was developed by commission at Dixon Place and co-presented with the Public Theater in New York. The workshop production received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Lucille Lortel Foundation as part of New York Now, the Public’s annual play reading festival.