In Our Time: Pandemic Stories from the Frontlines

Written and co-produced by Anya Martin as the Founding Artistic Director of Hiawatha Project.

Inspired by interviews with women ICU physicians on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic, and Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking World War I novel set against the backdrop of a pandemic nearly 100 years earlier, “In Our Time: Pandemic Stories from the Frontlines” weaves Hemingway’s novel, In Our Time, with first hand accounts to create a moving, poetic account of 2 pandemic eras echoing with parallel themes of loss, grief and alienation. Theatrically adventurous and surprising, characters and stories layer through time and stage space, as they reach for meaning and connection in the spaces between words and worlds.

Staged Reading directed by Anya Martin, June 2022 at the Pierce Studio Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA

Staged Reading February 2024 directed by Steven Wilson, at City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, PA

Staged Reading February 2024 directed by Steven Wilson, at Carnegie Stage, Pittsburgh, Ap

90 second “In Our Time: Pandemic Stories from the Frontlines” Highlight Reel