2021-22 Season
The Chinese Lady
by Lloyd Suh
Directed by Justin Jain
Cast
Bi Jean Ngo
Afong Moy
Daniel Kim
Atung
Production Team
Justin Jain
Director
Liana Irvine
Dramaturg
Noelle Johnson
EDI consultant
Chris Haig
Set Designer
Melanie Hsu
Sound Designer
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Designer
Ariel Wang
Costume Designer
Jo Vito Ramírez
Prop Supervisor
Dalton Whiting
Assistant Set Designer
Seth Rozin
Production Manager
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
In 1834, 14-year-old Afong Moy becomes the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, dreaming of bridging the two countries’ cultures with her political savvy and philosophical prowess. But as she delights curious white people with displays of her daily life, does her (side)show bridge the cultural gap or widen it?
“Piercing and intimate… By the end of Suh’s extraordinary play, we look at Afong and see whole centuries of American history” — New York Times
Liv Shoup
Production Assistant
Sydney Norris
Master Electrician
John Kolbinski
Audio Engineer
Kevin Hoover
Tech Director
Joel Sumner
General Manager at PSW
This Bitter Earth
A protest brought Jesse, an introspective Black playwright, together with his white boyfriend Neil, a Black Lives Matter activist. But as Neil immerses himself deeper in the movement, Jesse finds his choices challenged and their love on the line.
“One of the most ruthlessly truthful interracial love stories the American stage has seen” – DC Metro Theatre Arts
by Harrison David Rivers
Directed by Tyrone L. Robinson
Cast
David Bazemore
Jesse
Gabriel Elmore
Neil
Production Team
John Kolbinski
Audio Engineer
Kevin Hoover
Shop Foreman - PSW
Joel Sumner
General Manager - PSW
Zach Galloza
Production Assistant
Kate Sparacio
Production Manager
J Alex Cordaro
Fight Director
Harrison David Rivers
Playwright
Tyrone L. Robinson
Director
Colin McIlvaine
Set Designer
Shannon Zura
Lighting Designer
Katherine Fritz
Costume Designer
Jaedto Israel
Asst. Costume Designer
Larry Fowler
Sound Designer
Taj Rauch
Projection Designer
Colleen Hughes
Intimacy Director
Emily Smith
Props
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
Sydney Norris
Master Electrician
Settlements
When the resident theatre at a Jewish Community Center commissions a new play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Jordanian-Jewish playwright, the Center finds itself pulled in conflicting directions. In such polarized times when extreme voices threaten to pull an institution (or a country) off its foundation, how does one hold onto the center?
From the provocative playwright behind Human Rites and Two Jews Walk Into A War…
by Seth Rozin
A World Premiere Directed by David Winitsky
Cast
Steven Rishard
Noah
Cindy Gold
Judith
Emily Zacharias
Marion
Becca Khalil
Yasmine
Mitch Greenberg
Esar
Dan Hodge
Noah (replacement)
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
Liv Shoup
Production Assistant
Sydney Norris
Master Electrician
John Kolbinski
Audio Engineer
Kevin Hoover
Technical Director
Production Team
Seth Rozin
Playwright
David Winitsky
Director
Marie Laster
Set Designer
Liz Atkinson
Sound Designer
Josh Benghiat
Lighting Designer
Natalia de la Torre
Costume Designer
Kate Sparacio
Production Manager
72 Miles to Go…
72 miles. That’s what separates a recently deported mother in Nogales, Mexico and her husband and children in Tucson, Arizona. But the real distance stretches over eight years, two presidential administrations, graduations, anniversaries, the countless daily moments they spend apart—and the boundless love that unites them across borders.
“Dramatizes a heartbreaking predicament more often reduced to headlines and politicized in Washington debates” – Time Out New York
by Hilary Bettis
Directed by Erlina Ortiz & Seth Rozin
Cast
J Hernandez
Billy
Lorenza Bernasconi
Eva
Jerrick Medrano
Aaron
Frank Jimenez
Christian
Anjoli Santiago
Anita
Eric Baker
Master Electrician
John Kolbinski
Audio Engineer
Kevin Hoover
Scene Shop
Chris Bratek
Scene Shop
Zach Galloza
Production Assistant
Kate Sparacio
Production Manager
Production Team
Hilary Bettis
Playwright
Erlina Ortiz
Director
Seth Rozin
Director
Mellie Katakalo
Set Designer
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Designer
Asaki Kuruma
Costume Designer
Shannon Zura
Sound Designer
Kelly Palmer
Props
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager