Written by Emmy Weissman

Directed by Karma Masselli

Mikvah Girls is the story of two orthodox Jewish women from New Jersey who are supposed to be performing a monthly cleansing ritual at a mikvah. Instead, they actually use this time to hold meetings of their two-person Bruce Springsteen fan club. Together they grapple with the effects their religion has on their sexuality, desires, hopes, and dreams, all while obsessing over the Boss and dreaming of a better world they could build together.

Mikvah Girls was initially developed at Art House Productions’ INKubator New Play Program in the ’22-’23 cohort, culminating in a staged reading in May 2023. The play was further developed at Sewanee Writers’ Conference in July 2023 and with Breaking and Entering Theatre Co in September 2023.

Promotional Material by Lucas Castro-Cruz

Costume Design by Hannah Bird

Our Cast

  • Raffi Donatich is a writer and performer based in New York City. Recent credits include Mikvah Girls (Art House Productions, Breaking & Entering) and Maia Novi's INVASIVE SPECIES (The Tank). She participated in Jeremy O. Harris' inaugural writers residency Substratum, and assisted on his plays DADDY (Almeida, London), Slave Play and (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, NYTW, Broadway). She was awarded Yale University’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp fellowship for poetry and is a two-time winner of the Yale Playwrights Festival.

  • Laura Herskov is an actor, writer, and musical artist from Southern California and Escazú, Costa Rica. Her most recent stage credits include Mikvah Girls (Art House Productions), Let Me Cook For You (TheaterLab), Motherf**king Girl Scouts (Wild Project), and Glow Worms (Chain Theater). On screen, you can see her in Father (directed by Felipe Boertz), Gracie in Gracie Green Is Getting Resurrected (directed by Karma Masselli), and Wild Like Me (directed by Lauren Nicola). Her goal as an artist is to have a fun and funky fresh time. BFA: NYU Tisch school of the Arts. @Lauramilagra