Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven received its world premiere Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in December 2019. Halfway Bitches was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and was named one of the best plays of 2019 by The Wrap. Guirgis’ play Between Riverside and Crazy was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Guirgis is a member and former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company in New York. His other plays include The Motherfucker with the Hat (6 Tony nominations, including Best Play), Den of Thieves, Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the A Train, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, and The Little Flower of East Orange. His plays have been produced throughout the world. Guirgis has been awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Steinberg Award, PEN/Laura Pels Award, Whiting Award, TCG fellowship, Fringe First Award, NY Drama Critics Circle, L.A. Drama Critics Prize, and a Lucille Lortel Award. He co-created and executive produced Netflix’s The Get Down with Baz Lurmann, which aired in 2016.