Tira Palmquist, based in Southern California, is known for plays that merge the personal, the political and the poetic – such as Two Degrees, which premiered at the Denver Center and is available through TRW Plays. Her newest play, The Body’s Midnight, premiered at Boston Court Pasadena in April 2024 (a coproduction with IAMA Theater Company). Tira’s current projects include Memory of Winter (a play continuing her series of plays about Minnesota, also about climate change) and King Margaret, an adaptation of the Henry VI cycle featured in the 5 Directors, 5 Plays reading series with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, July 2021. Other plays: The Worth of Water, Safe Harbor, The Way North, Ten Mile Lake, Age of Bees, And Then They Fell, and This Floating World.