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A new off-Broadway play centering the experiences of young women is coming this June, following the success of shows like Romeo + Juliet, All-Nighter, and John Proctor Is the Villain. And you might recognize some familiar faces.
Teen Vogue can exclusively announce that Dilaria, written by Julia Randall and directed by Alex Keegan, will star rising actress Ella Stiller, Cruel Summer's Chiara Aurelia, and The Summer I Turned Pretty's Christopher Briney. The play centers on 20-something Dilaria (Stiller) who seems to have a pretty great life with her best friend Georgia (Aurelia) and boyfriend Noah (Briney) — but social media attention beckons, and gaining it comes with consequences.
Randall tells Teen Vogue she hopes audiences don't have easy reactions to the story. “I hope that anybody who sees this play relates to it in some capacity,” Randall says. “But also feels complicated about it, and talks about whatever complicated feelings get brought up for them.”
The official synopsis for Dilaria reads, "Her parents are loaded. Her schedule is empty. Her bestie’s up for anything, and her boy’s down bad. What more could a girl want? But when Becca Schwartz dies and starts racking up likes, Dilaria starts to wonder… is dying the ultimate glow-up?
Overflowing with caustic humor, Julia Randall’s play plunges into the ecstasy and ennui of a generation raised on true crime, reality TV, and social media."
It'll be the latest exciting career move for 22-year-old Stiller, who graduated from Juilliard in 2024 with an acting degree (yes, she's also Ben Stiller's daughter). She's so far done a few smaller roles and was supposed to be in the off-Broadway play Before This New Year, which was “indefinitely postponed” this spring. She'll next be seen alongside Sam Nivola in Driver’s Ed and in the next season of And Just Like That.
For Aurelia (who is fresh off the hit Peacock series Hysteria!) and Briney, it'll also be a professional theatrical debut — though Briney told Teen Vogue last year that he was a theater kid in high school, and Aurelia also came up doing local stage productions.
It's been an exciting year for Broadway and off-Broadway so far, with various productions bringing to light the turmoil, beauty, and pressure in being a young person grappling with so much in the world. “I’m really grateful for people that have come before me that have written about this generation because they’ve paved the way,” Randall says. “While I was writing this play I was thinking a lot about early 2000s movies centering around young women.”
Dilaria performances start on June 13 at the DR2 Theatre on East 15th Street and will run for eight weeks, with an opening night on June 18.
