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