Written and Directed by: Prasad Paul Duffy

“Strokes of Genius” is a three character drama about the abstract expressionist painters Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, and Helen Frankenthaler, who struggled to be recognized in a patriarchal art world, overshadowed by their famous husbands, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Told through their own words, this memory play explores their courage, perseverance, and creative process, as they prepare for the ground-breaking “9th Street Show” in 1951 Greenwich Village.

CAST

Susan Hochtman as “Lee Krasner”
Alyssa Simon as “Elaine de Kooning”
Elena Zazanis as “Helen Frankenthaler”

PRASAD PAUL DUFFY 

 Playwright/Director 

Prasad Paul Duffy is a non-binary playwright and theater maker. A graduate of NYU Drama School, Prasad wrote and directed “St. Mark’s Place,” an immersive play about homeless people in 1985. In 2019 Prasad wrote and directed the rock musical, “Revolutionary,” a futuristic drama about rebel youth fighting totalitarianism as part of the 10th Anniversary Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City. Prasad has written numerous other plays, including “Joe’s Paradise” a musical comedy about pole dancers, and “It’s My Funeral” a short drama about the spirit of a young suicide victim who visits his own funeral, which was presented in the 2022 One Festival.