2017-18 Season
Broken Stones
Based on an extremely true story. Fact: priceless artifacts were looted from The Baghdad Museum in 2003 during the Iraq War. Fact: A U.S. marine went in to investigate who was responsible. Everything else is open for interpretation. When a well-meaning veteran meets his ghostwriter, mythologies mix, truth is refashioned into click bait, and reality itself begins to shift. Kennedy’s world premiere is an intense, cinematic thriller that examines the appropriation of narrative and just what it means to print the legend.
A World Premiere
by Fin Kennedy
directed by Seth Rozin
Cast
Charlotte Northeast
The Writer
Rand Guerrero
Ramirez/Romano
Steven Wright
Anderson/Garrett
Nazli Sarpkaya
Nadia/Polonsky/Zahra/Nina/Kerry/ Maria
Joe Guzmán
Omar/Sheridan/Mario
Peter Bisgaier*
Collins/Sinan/The Director/Simon
Daniel Barland
Tariq/Dan/Ari/Matt
Najla Said*
Aaliyah/Diane/Lea
Production Team
Natalia de la Torre
Costume Designer
Emily Schuman
Properties Designer
Lauren Tracy
Production Manager
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
Philadelphia Scenic Works
Scene Shop
Christa Federico
Assistant Stage Manager
Fin Kennedy
Playwright
Seth Rozin
Director
Kittson O'Neill
Dramaturg
Nick Embree
Set Designer
Larry Fowler
Sound Designer
Peter Whinnery
Lighting Designer
Sensitive Guys
Is it enough just to be “working on your sh*t?” In the safe spaces of a small liberal arts college, the student-led Men’s Peer Education Group and women’s Survivor Support Group work together on an ambitious plan to eradicate all sexual violence everywhere in just five years. They've got it all together -- until an incident throws their ideals into question. Five female and non-binary performers inhabit both male and female roles in this social satire about complicity and what it really takes to face the patriarchy.
A World Premiere
by MJ Kaufman
directed by Evren Odcikin
Cast
Eli Lynn
Diana/Danny
Bi Jean Ngo
Amy/Pete/Dean
Lexie Braverman
Katie/Jordan/Jones
Jack M. Henry
Admissions Officer/Will/Leslie
Brett Robinson
Tracy/Tyler
Production Team
John Wendling
Properties Designer
Lauren Tracy
Production Manager
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
Philadelphia Scenic Works
Scene Shop
Claris Park
Assistant Stage Manager
MJ Kaufman
Playwright
Evren Odcikin
Director
Erin Washburn
Dramaturg
Melpomene Katakalos
Set Designer
Shannon Zura
Sound Designer
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Designer
Katherine Fritz
Costume Designer
Human Rites
A new play inspired by the work of Dr. Richard Shweder and the lived experiences of Dr. Fuambai Sia Ahmadu. Michaela, an African American dean at a major American university, summons Alan, a renowned professor of cultural psychology, in response to student protest over his controversial paper on female initiation rites in sub-Saharan Africa. But dormant feelings from an affair years earlier turn a heated argument over science and cultural pluralism into a knock-down, drag-out fight. Rozin’s provocative play shatters the ivory tower of academia, upending questions of privilege and Western morality.
Nominated for the 2018 Virginia Brown Martin Philadelphia Award
by Seth Rozin
directed by Harriet Power
Cast
Kimberly S. Fairbanks
Michaela
Joe Guzman
Alan
Lynnette Freeman
Lydia
Production Team
Philadelphia Scenic Works
Scene Shop
D'Arcy Dersham
Dialect Coach
Paige Zubel
Production Assistant
Seth Rozin
Playwright
Harriet Power
Director
Kittson O'Neill
Dramaturg
Colin McIlvaine
Set Designer
Jerry Forsyth
Lighting Designer
Lizzy Pecora
Costume Designer
Daniel Kontz
Sound Designer
John Wendling
Properties
Lauren Tracy
Production Manager
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager