HONOR KILLING Synopsis

Allisyn Davis, an American reporter for The New York Times, heads to Pakistan to cover the honor killing of a young woman. Denied entrance, but armed with the most current technology, she conducts her investigation remotely from Dubai. Through a series of cultural collisions, candid interviews, and dangerous encounters she learns the horrifying details of this murder. These circumstances cause Allisyn to re-examine troubling details of her own past. One culture mirrors the other, asking questions about forgiveness, self-worth, and justice.

Production History

Sarah’s first play, HONOR KILLING is the 2nd Runner up for The Woodward International Playwriting Prize at the University of New Hampshire, and received Honorable Mention for the Bridge Initiative Playwriting Contest: Playwright of the Year Award. HONOR KILLING is a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (2017),  a Semi-Finalist for the 2017 Ashland New Play Festival, a Semi- Finalist for the Premier Stages 2017 Play Festival, 1 of 29 in final consideration for the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference (2017), was Semi-Finalist for 2016 Eugene O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference, and a Semi-Finalist for Stage Left Theatre’s Playwriting Residency (Chicago, 2017).   HONOR KILLING was one of three plays selected by Artistic Director, Karen Azenberg, to be part of the PLAY-BY-PLAY Series at Pioneer Theater (Salt Lake City, Utah), was granted a lab at Guild Hall as part of the John Drew Lab (in East Hampton, NY), has been short-listed at the GEVA Theatre’s 2017 New Works Series,  and is a 2nd round contender at London’s Theatre503.

HONOR KILLING will receive development through Athena Project Arts Festival in Denver, CO in the spring of 2017. For more information, please visit Athena Project here. Athena Project’s Executive Producer, Angela Astle, will direct. Curation of this site and additional production dramaturgy by Morgan Grambo.