Drew Nova (He/She/They) is an aspiring playwright currently studying at Marymount Manhattan College where they creates works surrounding various themes of politics, death, interpersonal warfare, etc. Their newest work, "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" was born in response to the most recent events happening throughout America as they try to make sense of it. Featured and self-produced at The New York Theatre Festival 2025, they challenged Trumps attack on education and its effect on school programs through a mixer of blackness and gender in a unique form. Another one of their works, "In Loving Memory”, exploring themes of love, family, and death was a featured staged reading at LaGuardia College.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, a political piece discussing current events and social climates and how it affects schools and students of varying identities. Challenging the traditional form of theater by telling the story through another character as the narrator. To provide an inside look to how the characters are being affected, taking on topics like colorism, conformity, LGBTQ+ rights and wrongs, and the responsibility of voting.
When you lose someone chances are someone else lost them too. Death takes things from us too soon or maybe just in time. Our only choice as the living is to grieve what's lost. But that's hard, isn't it Especially, when everyone around sees things differently than you do. They all have an opinion but it's up to you to define yours. This is a play meant to analyze grief and family. Forcing the audience to ask themselves who have they lost and why they grieve. Grieving is reconciling with the loss of a person, of someone meaningful. But do you always grieve who you knew, who everyone else thought they were, or who they are?