FOR FREYA

By Dom Martello

2025 Parity Development Award Winner

Synopsis

During an unforgiving Alaskan winter night, an isolated woodsperson, Jack, turns to folk magic to bring a snowwoman to life to keep them company until spring. To Jack’s surprise, the snowwoman knows much more than she should, and has a hunger to learn more. After naming herself Freya, she rapidly inhabits her flesh, trying to experience and learn as much as she can. As she becomes more human and the two fall in love, Jack must grapple with the fact that they only need company until spring, when daylight and warmth return. For Freya is a meditation on mortality, disability, transness, inherited genetics, and the warm embrace of a loved one.

About the Playwright

Dom’s work has been developed with Breaking the Binary, The Road Theater, The Workshop Theater, and The Elif Collective. Dom is a Celebration Theater Rites of Passage Commission Recipient with their play substantiation. Their play RED TIDE was the inaugural reading for the Blue Roses Project (produced by James McBride & Gideon Glick). Dom is a Truman Capote Fellow and a Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting ‘27 Candidate.