by francisca da silveira
Directed by Tyrone L. Robinson

Cast

Saiir Foy-Coles
Martin
Troy D. Wallace
Jose

Production Team

francisca da silveira
Playwright
Tyrone L. Robinson
Director
Colin McIlvaine
Set Designer
Lily Fossner
Lighting Designer
Ariel Wang
Costume Designer
Ryk Lewis
Sound Designer
Kelly Palmer / PSW
Props Manager
Eli Lynn
Fight Director
Kate Sparacio
Production Manager

On Fogo, a tiny African island in Cape Verde, both dreams and volcanoes are at risk of erupting as cousins Martin and Jose fight for opportunity, understanding, and their lives when a tropical storm threatens to destroy everything they know.

Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
Harbour Edney
Head Electrician
John Kolbinski
Audio Engineer
William Bryant
Technical Director - PSW
Chris Bratek
Managing Director - PSW
Andrew Beal
Production Assistant

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

A World Premiere
Co-Production with Passage Theatre

by Josh Wilder
directed by Jerrell L. Henderson

Cast

Fenton Li
John Wu
Chuja Seo
Linda Wu
Miriam White
Megan
Richard Bradford
Boodah
Jay Battle
Raheem
Mark Christie
Tommy
Justin Pietropaolo
Paul
Kendra Holloway
Cece

A layer of bulletproof glass won’t protect Superstar Chinese Take-Out owners from the gentrification consuming the Point Breeze neighborhood in South Philly. When a trendy food co-op opens nearby, the Wu’s and their customers initially see it as a hipster annoyance, but as tensions mount they begin to recognize the intrusion as an act of war. Tinged with genuine humor and pathos, Wilder’s play examines the very human consequences of neighborhood redevelopment -- who benefits and who gets chewed up and spit out?

by Idris Goodwin
directed by Ozzie Jones

Cast

Carlo Campbell
Verb
Kyle Glenn
Pinnacle
Bianca Sanchez
Peep One

Production Team

Idris Goodwin
Playwright
Larry Fowler
Composer
Ozzie Jones
Director
Apollo Weaver
Set Designer
Angela Myers
Lighting Designer
Natalia de la Torre
Costume Designer
Melissa Dunphy
Sound Designer
Emily Schuman
Properties Designer
Tom Helmer
Stage Manager
Jess DeStefano
Production Manager

Hype man Verb has been backing up front-man rapper Pinnacle since they were kids. Adding beatmaker Peep One to their group sparked a flame and now the interracial trio is flexing serious Hip-Hop muscle. But when an unarmed black teenager is shot by police, it forces the group to navigate issues of friendship and race. The latest from break beat poet and playwright Idris Goodwin (HOW WE GOT ON), HYPE MAN asks: what does it mean to be an ally, and who has the responsibility to speak up in the face of social injustice?

Kate Henderson
Assistant Stage Manager
John Kolbinski
Audio Technician
Elliot Konstant
Master Electrician

A World Premiere

by Kristoffer Diaz
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Brett Ashley Robinson
The Revolution
Mary Tuomanen
The Witness
Anita Holland
The Muscle
Stephanie N. Walters
Aurora
Richard Chan
Harvey/Charlie
 

Production Team

Colin Mcilvaine 
Set Design
Katherine Fritz
Costume Design
Peter Whinnery
Lighting Design
Christopher Colucci
Sound Design

After an impulsive, social‐media driven, revolution upends inequality in America, two young women try to navigate the unforeseen challenges that come with driving out the “powers‐that‐be”, when they are swiftly thrust into newly-acquired roles as leaders. As they recognize the ability to compel people to adhere to their own brand of social justice they start to investigate just what else it is they can do.

 by Young Jean Lee
directed by Matt Pfeiffer

Cast

Dan Kern
Ed
Tim Dugan
Jake
Kevin Meehan
Drew
Steven Rishard
Matt

Production Team

Shannon Zura
Lighting Design
Samina Vieth
Set Design
Alison Roberts
Costume Design
Larry D. Fowler, Jr.
Sound Design

Every Christmas, Ed and his three sons get together, eat Chinese takeout, and unleash well-worn inside jokes while reminiscing about their unusual childhood. But this holiday season they are forced to consider a pivotal cultural reality underneath their constructed lives. Part deeply comedic social artifact, part emotional time-bomb, all framed in the context of a typical "living room" drama, Lee’s funny and moving play ultimately poses this tantalizing question: What does it mean to do the “right thing” as a straight white man?

by Jennifer Haley
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Bi Jean Ngo
Morris
Greg Wood
Sims
Tim Moyer
Doyle
Griffin Stanton-Ameisen
Woodnut
Iris
Emi Branes-Huff

Production Team

Janus Stefanowicz
Costume Design
Melpomene Katakalos
Set Design
Rob Kaplowitz 
Sound Design
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Design

In a dystopian future, a young detective investigates cyber-ethical crimes perpetrated in an addictive virtual universe. When an alluring suspect conjures up the disturbing real-world consequences of depraved online desires, Haley’s thrilling futurist parable incites a relentless search for what is tangible inside the ether of the net. 

Nominated for 3 2016 Barrymore Awards, including Outstanding Overall Production of a Play

A World Premiere

by Christopher Chen
directed by Rick Shiomi

Cast

Ames Adamson
Bob
Jessica DalCanton
Joyce
Justin Jain
Lin Bo
Bi Jean Ngo
Wang Min
Christie Parker
Curator

Production Team

Elizabeth Atkinson
Sound Design
Rachel Coon
Costume Design
Mellie Katakalos
Set Design
Bill Ng
Visual Designer
Kittson O’Neill
Dramaturg

Chinese artist Lin Bo's harrowing tale of imprisonment has the world standing at attention--but when cracks appear in his story and accusations fly, his claims transform into a labyrinthine exploration of truth, art, appropriation, and justice where nothing is what it seems.

Winner: 2015 Independence Foundation Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play

Erin Washburn
Assistant Dramaturg
Peter Whinnery
Lighting Design

An InterAct World Premiere

by Jen Silverman
directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Cast

Eric Berryman
Marcel
Ross Beschler
Gregory
Akeem Davis
Sicelo
Lynnette R. Freeman
Pretty Mbane
Aimé Donna Kelly
Noxolo

Production Team

Katherine Fritz
Costume Design
Carolyn Mraz
Set Design
Dan Perelstein
Sound Design
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Design

In this beautiful and haunting play, South African soccer phenomenon Noxolo has found safety and freedom in England--but when her activist lover Pretty Mbane goes missing during the world Cup, Noxolo’s search brings her face to face with the demons of her past and her country’s blind eye towards violence against women. 

Commissioned by InterAct in 2011
Winner: 2014 Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting
Winner: 2015 Virginia Brown Martin Philadelphia Award

A World Premiere

by Thomas Gibbons
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Sally Mercer
Claire
Frank X
Julian

From the ingenious mind behind Permanent Collection comes the story of Julian, the newest advancement in artificial intelligence, and Claire, the woman tasked with teaching him how to be human. 

A World Premiere

Written by Seth Rozin
Directed by Seth Rozin & Kittson O’Neill

Cast

Judith Lightfoot Clarke
Three
Akeem Davis
Two
Dan Hodge
One
Leah Walton
Dr. Posner

In this absurdist comedy of ideas, Dr. Posner, a neurotic, atheist Jewish psychiatrist, is visited by three people claiming to be Jesus Christ, each convinced they need to make their case as the Messiah to save Dr. P's soul--or at least avoid the loony bin.

by Jackie Sibblies Drury
directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Cast

Aime Kelly
Black Woman/Another Sarah
JaBen Early
Actor 2/Black Man
James Ijames
Actor 4/Another Black Man
Jamison Foreman
Actor 2/Another White Man
Kevin Meehan
Actor 1/White Man
Miriam White
Actor 5/Sarah

An ensemble of actors comes together to create a play about an obscure 20th century genocide--but from the mire of creativity, hidden hatred and dormant violence bubble to the surface, forcing these “post-race” millennials to confront their true natures.

by Johnna Adams
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Alice M. Gatling
Corryn
Karen Peakes
Heather

Production Team

Colin McIlvaine
Set Design
Susan Smythe
Costume Design
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Design
Daniel Kontz
Sound Design

A grieving mother looking for answers for her son's death, and a bewildered teacher on the brink of losing what she holds dear, collide in a parent/teacher conference that becomes an intense battle to understand the vivid, tortured inner life of one extraordinary ten year-old boy.

Winner: 2014 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play (Alice Gatling)

A World Premiere

by A. Zell Williams
directed by Matt Pfeiffer

Cast

Brian Cowden
Stanley Drago
Alex Keiper
Sophia Grillo
Kittson O’Neill
Tambrey Walker
Bobby Plasencia
Ignacio Guerrero
William Rahill
Vince Turati
Alice Yorke
Emma/Cameraperson
William Zielinski
Nicky Grillo

Production Team

Drew Billiau
Lighting Design
Ian Guzzone
Set Design
Alison Roberts
Costume Design
Christopher Colucci
Sound Design

Ever since he told a customer to "speak English," Nicky Grillo, the third-generation owner of Grillo's Steaks in South Philly--pits himself against his spirited daughter, his oldest friend, and his own rapidly diversifying community. In the City of Brotherly Love, how far will one man go to keep his neighborhood All-American?

Winner: 2014 Independence Foundation Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play
Winner: 2014 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Overall Production of a Play

An InterAct World Premiere

by Peter Gil-Sheridan
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

David Bardeen 
Jason
Annie Henk
Yesenia
Becca Khalil
Ritu
Jered McLenigan
Brendan
Amar Srivastava
Akash

Production Team

Rosemarie McKelvey
Costume Design
Roman Tatarowicz
Set Design
Mark Valenzuela 
Sound Design
Peter Whinnery
Lighting Design

Brendan and Jason proudly pay 80 cents a day to support their “adopted” Bangladeshi daughter--until the child-turned-teenager magically appears in their living room, turning everyone’s life upside down in this irreverent romp exploring the meaning of family in an increasingly globalized world.

Commissioned by InterAct in 2009

by William Missouri Downs
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Dan Hodge
Dick Fig
Cheryl Williams
Eunice
Jennifer MacMillan
Actress #1
Meghan Malloy
Actress #2
David Bardeen
Actor #1
Eric Kramer
Actor #2

Production Team

Natalia Delatorre
Costume Designer
Roman Tatarowicz
Set Designer
Mark Valenzuela
Sound Designer
Peter Whinnery
Lighting Designer

Do things really happen for a reason? This raucous comedy breaks every theatre convention in the book in search of an answer. Bertolt Brecht scholar Dick Fig has been fired from his university position and is having an excruciating exit interview with Eunice – a droll administrator. Eunice engages in small talk. Dick expounds on existential theories. Together, they experience divine communiques, lectures on science and religion, shameless advertisements, offensive cheerleadings, and ever-closer attacks by a masked gunman.

by David Robson
directed by Seth Reichgott

Cast

Brian Wilson
FRANK
Dwayne Thomas
LEWIS

Production Team

Maggie Baker
Costume Designer
Dirk Durossett
Set Designer
Ashley Turner
Sound Designer
James Leitner
Lighting Designer 

Inspired by true events, this taut drama opens 30 years after a brutal on-field hit left a professional football player paralyzed for life. Now, his attacker, “the Assassin,” is battling diabetes and alcoholism, and seeking a televised mea culpa with his victim. But, what begins as a careful cat-and-mouse game between the retired football star and the now-quadriplegic’s lawyer quickly evolves into a volatile evening of stinging accusations and startling confessions.

by Thomas Gibbons
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Alice Gatling
Corryn
Karen Peakes 
Heather

Production Team

Susan Smythe
Costume Designer
Colin McIlvaine
Set Designer
Daneil Kontz
Sound Designer
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Designer

Inspired by events at Philadelphia’s storied Barnes Foundation, this compelling drama follows a suburban museum’s newly hired Executive Director, whose ideas for making adjustments to the permanent collection set off a firestorm of racially-charged controversies, within and beyond the institution’s hallowed walls. Permanent Collection garnered critical acclaim and the 2004 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play, before being produced at dozens of theaters across the country.

by Eric Pfeffinger
directed by Paul Meshejian

Cast

David Ingram
BILL
Bi Jean Ngo
KALIYAN
Brenny Rabine
CARA
Victoria Chau
ANGKAT
Nandita Shenoy
LAKSHMI

Production Team

Rosemarie McKelvey
Costume Designer
Caitlin Lainoff
Set Designer
Christopher Colucci
Sound Designer
Shannon Zura
Lighting Designer

This scathing satire follows Bill, a hapless, middle-management yes-man, on business in Cambodia, where he finds himself at a brothel teeming with underage sex workers. Summoning what little moral outrage he has, he attempts to liberate one of the girls – by buying her. Back at the hotel, his loquacious associate will say just about anything to seal a business deal, and an emotionally fragile woman seeks to save her failing marriage by adopting a Cambodian baby. No one is spared in this surprisingly humorous riff on American goodwill abroad.

by Sarah Treem
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Janis Dardaris 
Zelda
Victoria Frings 
Rachel

Production Team

Susan Smythe 
Costume Designer
Meghan Jones 
Set Designer
Scott Burgess 
Sound Designer
Peter Whinnery
Lighting Designer

On the eve of a prestigious conference, an up-and-coming evolutionary biologist wrestles for the truth with an established leader in the field. Their real challenge has been negotiating the fiercely male-dominated enterprise of academic science, where a female perspective has rarely been considered…until now. But the two trail-blazing women share more than a passion for science, as the revelation of long-held secrets threatens to change change their personal trajectories. Evolution and emotion collide in this thought-provoking new play about science, family and the survival of the fittest.

by Mike Lew
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Kevin Bergen 
Bennett
Hannah Gold 
Lydia
Dave Johnson 
Randy, et al.
Bi Jean Ngo 
Beta Test, et al
Maia Desanti
Chavez, et al.
Frank X Acquah,
Frankfurt, et al.

 

Production Team

Anna Frangiosa 
Costume Designer
Caitlin Lainoff 
Set Designer
Mark Valenzuela 
Sound Designer
Peter Whinnery
Lighting Designer

What happens when wheeler-dealers on Wall Street use the Nobel Prize-winning concept of microcredit to ravage the world economy? Fast on the heels of the current recession, MicroCrisis is a scathing satire that follows a smart, slick, big-version banker as he draws a gaggle of innocent do-gooders into an outrageous global lending scheme, bouncing seamlessly between the U.S., Ghana, and Monaco. Never stopping to consider the destruction in their wake, the banker and his unwitting accomplices try desperately to stay one step ahead of the game.

Various Artists

We have searched far and wide to bring together this first-time festival of presented works that illuminate the richness and complexity of our contemporary world. The festival will showcase an exciting array of acclaimed and engaging first-person narratives that celebrate and challenge our American identity.

You’re Gonna Cry
Young Voices Monologue Festival
Draw the Circle
Palestine
Lay of the Land

by Kara Lee Corthron
directed by
Whit MacLaughlin

Cast

Phyllis Johnson 
Jules
Ian Bedford 
Olafur
Jered McLenigan 
Jonsi/Man on street
Aria Jones 
Kina
Akeem Davis
Warton

Production Team

Rosemarie McKelvey 
Costume Designer
Tim Brown 
Set Designer
Rob Kaplowitz 
Sound Designer
Maria Shaplin
Lighting Designer

Commissioned by InterAct in 2009, this intense and theatrical drama about lust, betrayal, and culture clash marks the arrival of one of the most exciting new voices in American theatre. The compelling story follows Jules, an African-American painter who has fled the U.S. under mysterious circumstances and embraced a whole new life and family in Iceland. As Barack Obama’s meteoric presidential campaign makes Jules more homesick than ever, her husband presents their biracial daughter with a shocking present, and a hometown visitor shows up at Jules’s studio. This whirlwind of events brings the demons of Jules’s past crashing down on her new family, and challenges her sense of racial and personal identity.

by Thomas Gibbons
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Chris Coucill 
Alden
Nancy Boykin 
Kate
Tim Moyer 
Erastus
Dan Hodge 
Frank
Pierce Cravens
Howard
Mary Tuomanen
Annie
Jessica DalCanton 
Tirzah

Production Team

Rosemarie McKelvey 
Costume Designer
Nick Embree 
Set Designer
Kevin Francis 
Sound Designer
Peter Whinnery 
Lighting Designer

Based on the 19th century Oneida community of upstate New York, Silverhill is a play about innocence lost – but not by an individual so much as a community, and by extension, American society as a whole. Silverhill is a self-supporting Christian community that openly and successfully practices complex marriage and the communal sharing of wealth under the spiritual leadership of its charismatic founder. But when one young member introduces the idea that Silverhill should abandon communism and become a corporation, the capitalist spirit threatens to shatter the community’s peaceful utopia.

by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
directed by Seth Rozin

Cast

Kittson O'Neill 
Alice
Ed Swidey 
Lucas
Sarah Van Auken 
Rhiannon/Zakiyah
Paul Nicholas 
Bashir
Gamze Ceylan 
Riva

Production Team

Holly Cain 
Costume Designer
Hiroshi Iwasaki 
Set Designer
Rob Kaplowitz 
Sound Designer
Thom Weaver 
Lighting Designer

In the 15 years since Alice served in the U.S. Army as an interrogator at Guantanamo Bay, she has successfully reinvented herself and suppressed all memories of her prior life – mostly through the aid of pharmaceuticals. She now lives contentedly, if not passionately, in Minnesota with her loving husband and precocious teenage daughter. That is, until Bashir, a Pakistani Muslim, shows up at Alice’s flower shop and asks for part of her liver as compensation for the suffering he endured as one of her detainees. The request sets into motion a series of visceral and spiritual encounters among six characters whose lives will be forever connected and defined by a single act of inhumanity.

Written and performed
by Jennifer Schelter
directed by Anne Zumbo

In 2006, renowned Philadelphia Yoga teacher and performer Jennifer Schelter was invited to travel to Turkey where she witnessed interviews of Iraqi prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib prison. Inspired by the improbable beauty of their stories, Schelter used her unique artistic language, expertise in Yoga and spiritual growth to craft Love Lessons, a one-woman performance examining the repercussions of torture and the different ways we attempt to heal ourselves.

by Seth Rozin
directed by
James Glossman

Cast

John Pietrowski 
Zeblyan
Tom Teti 
Ishaq

Production Team

Susan Smythe 
Costume Designer
Drew Francis 
Set Designer
Jeff Knapp 
Sound Designer
Peter Escalada-Mastick 
Lighting Designer

From the author of Black Gold comes this poignant comedy that New York Times  called “irreverent”,  “amusing”, and “sweet-natured”. Inspired by real-life events, Two Jews Walk Into A War... follows Ishaq and Zeblyan, the last two Jews from Afghanistan. They share the only remaining synagogue that has not been destroyed by the Taliban. They share a desire to continue practicing their religion and to repopulate the Jewish community in Kabul. But they hate each other. Can one incredible act of faith keep the diaspora alive and keep this Middle Eastern “odd couple” from killing each other? 

by A. Zell Williams
directed by Rebecca Wright

Cast

Lynette Freeman 
Rehema
Krista Apple 
Kathryn

Production Team

Maria Shaplin 
Costume Designer
Caitlin Lainoff 
Set Designer
Shannon Zura 
Sound Designer
Maria Shaplin 
Lighting Designer

An intense, timely new drama inspired by the true story of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist convicted in the death of a Philadelphia police officer. Set in Oakland, CA, at the turn of the millennium, the play follows two women – one, the daughter of an incarcerated Black Panther, and the other, the daughter of the white police officer he allegedly killed. Though these two strong-minded women are initially brought together in search of truth, their views on culture, class and race push them into an uneasy world of violence and mistrust. Locked in the battle that has defined their families’ legacies, these quintessentially American daughters must fight to find a balance between justice and forgiveness. 

Philadelphia Premiere

Set in the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling, and fueling by vibrant hip-hop language, Chad Deity pits long-time reigning T.H.E. Wrestling champion, Chad Deity, against Vigneshwar Paduar, a trash-talking, India-born athlete recruited from the b-ball courts of Brooklyn.  Casting the young upstart as an anti-hero extremist from “over there” who intends to catapult himself to fame by overthrowing the “all-American” Chad Deity, T.H.E.  Wrestling’s CEO plots to play upon wrestling fans’ fear of terrorism and globalization in order to mass market an epic battle of Good vs. Evil. 

World Premiere

Commissioned by InterAct through its 20/20 New Play Commission program, When We Go Upon The Sea is a provocative new play by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Lee Blessing. Set in a high-end hotel room at The Hague, Upon The Sea imagines former President George W. Bush on the eve of his trail for international war crimes. Tended to by an inscrutable Dutch butler and an alluring masseuse, the President embarks on a long night of drinking, joking, and ruminating, taking the audience through a deep exploration of how we regard our leaders. Examining an American populace that has grown strikingly complacent in the wake of extraordinary global challenges, Upon The Sea exposes one of the world’s most intriguing conflicts: the battle between the elected leader of the free world and a democracy of millions.

Philadelphia Premiere

Frank Higgins’s play with music follows the journey of two extraordinary women, each of whom is dependent on the other to gain acceptance into society. In 1935 Texas, Susannah, a Caucasian academic and song collector for the Library of Congress, visits a high-security prison where she meets Pearl, an African-American woman imprisoned for murder. Hoping to record the treasure trove of  spirituals and African folk songs that only Pearl knows, Susannah bargains for Pearl’s parole and arranges for several public performances. The two soon find themselves walking delicate line between exposure and exploitation. Featuring beautiful a cappella renditions of little-know American folk songs, Black Pearl Sings! chronicles a powerful story about being a woman in a man’s world, being Black in a White world, and fighting for one’s soul in a world where anyone can be a commodity.

Philadelphia Premiere

It’s 3AM on election night. Laura Smith, the prohibitive Republican favorite, has lost her senate race by a landslide. Suddenly without friends, and getting drunker by the second, Laura is thinking of cashing it all in. That is, until one of her loyal and spunky interns rescues her from the brink and wrestles her, quite literally, back to political life. A modern political parable about the limitations of the two-party system and a timely and provocative satire featuring food fights, women kissing and the undeniably rousing spirit of FDR.

National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere

When an African-American teenager is fatally shot on his front porch in a crime-ridden neighborhood of New York City, the boy’s mother accuses the police of murdering her son. A police misconduct investigator of Persian ancestry begins to find contradictions in the stories presented by both the mother and various eyewitnesses, including an African-American policeman on the scene. As accusations of racism and sexism poison the investigation, the audience is led down a Rashomon-like journey in which the truth appears less and less accessible, and the world hurries to form opinions based on assumptions.

National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere

Ashraf, an actor, has just received rave reviews for his performance of Hamlet at a struggling theatre in Los Angeles. But he’s only earning $200 a week and he’s having trouble paying bills. He needs his big break. A starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. And that’s just what his smarmy agent is offering. All Ashraf has to do is play the most stereotypically evil, fanatical Islamic terrorist ever to grace the silver screen. Jihad Jones follows Ashraf as he battles the infamous slippery slope, while hilariously balancing his personal ethics and cultural pride against his professional ambition.

World Premiere

Then first play to come out of InterAct’s new 20/20 New Play Commission program, Little Lamb tells the story of Denny and Jose, a gay couple who decide to adopt. Their adoption agent, Cathy, finds Denny and Jose an African-American baby girl from Texas and the happy family begins its new life together. But when Cathy receives an unexpected visit from the birth mother, who has strong opinions about the placement of her daughter, Denny and Jose must face the unthinkable, and Cathy is forced to choose between her progressive values, her African-American heritage, and her devout Christian beliefs.

Philadelphia Premiere

Pulitzer Prize-nominee by Steven Dietz, author of previous InterAct productions Lonely Planted and God’s Country. In Last of the Boys, Ben and Jeeter’s boys-will-be-boys’ bond has stood the test of time since they served together in Vietnam, but when Jeeter’s young and unpredictable new girlfriend arrives on the scene with her opinionated mother in tow, the past may finally be catching up with them.  Last of the Boys is a fierce, funny and mesmerizing character study that speaks to America’s situation in Iraq by revealing the lessons still to be learned from Vietnam.

 A hilarious, fast-paced, vaudevillian take on what happens when Curtis Walker, a man living in Detroit’s inner-city, tries to find a sure-fire way to earn the cash he needs to send his only son to college. His answer? He purchases an oil rig on eBay, drills in his back yard, taps into one of America’s largest oil reserves, and turns world politics on its head. Six actors play over 100 roles in this funny, futuristic satire of race, class, and greed in a country so dependent on foreign oil that we’ll go to any lengths to keep the cheap crude flowing.

Philadelphia Premiere

One of the biggest hits from Broadway and London’s West End, Frozen is the gripping and poetic journey of a mother whose daughter has been missing for 20 years, the man convicted of her murder and the psychologist attempting to understand his criminal motivations. As each character searches for a thaw in their frozen emotional lives, they strike a dark and hypnotic course that eventually leads them toward a common humanity. Nominated for 4 Tony Awards, including Best Play, Frozen is a play of stunning emotion and sensitivity that explores the limits off human regret and the power of forgiveness.

World Premiere

The Goldstein family of Philadelphia is torn apart when older brother, Louis, decides to embrace Jewish orthodoxy and move to Israel to join the Israeli army while younger brother, Douglas, builds his life around peace activism. A challenging and timely examination of family, faith, and politics, and how the desire to distance ourselves from our past may only bring  it closer home in the future.

More powerful than the acclaimed film or hit musical, the original stage play of Kiss of the Spider Woman remains a searing drama about two Argentinean men (a socialist rebel and a gay window dresser) imprisoned by an oppressive government for their beliefs and their lifestyle. Intimate, intense, tender and startling, Kiss of the Spider Woman reveals an unlikely love story in the most inhuman of circumstances.

A House With No Walls presents a conflict between two African-Americans: a rising star in academia who has just published a startlingly conservative book, and an ultra-liberal, Afro-centric political activist. This dramatic controversy – inspired by real-life events in Philadelphia – serves as a springboard for a volatile debate over whether African-Americans should embrace the legacy of slavery as their primitive identity or discard the mantle of “victimhood.” A House With No Walls juxtaposes the fictionalized present day conflict with the true story of one of George Washington’s slaves as she contemplates escape.

Philadelphia Premiere

Intriguing mystery and graphic sexuality mark this dramatic thriller in which a famous photojournalist returns to the country where his career was launched during a brutal civil war. One photograph – of a schoolgirl flying through the air after a bomb explosion – has since become a world-renowned icon of war, violence and innocence. Twenty years later, the photographer returns to the now infant democracy to receive a prestigious peace award, but first he is interviewed by an ambitious young woman whose story seems eerily familiar. Filled with gut-wrenching twists, Skin in Flames explores the thin ethical line between reporting on and influencing events in history.

World Premiere

Meet Anya and Izak, a couple struggling to survive in a war-ravaged country. Their aunt lies dead in the next room, and they have let their beloved dog run away out of fear their neighbors will eat him. Enter Audrey, an American socialite-turned-relief worker, who cheerfully announces the couple has been randomly selected to receive world-wide publicity as their country’s poster children …whether they want it or not! Lampooning America’s worldwide relief efforts, Feast humanizes our instinct to “do good” and ultimately reveals the true value of altruism. 

World Premiere

Intriguing and unsettling, American Sublime examines the insidious ways political ideas take hold of ordinary Americans, what recourse we have in voicing our hurt and anger, and what surprising thoughts may lurk beneath the surface of our apparently “Norman Rockwell” neighbors. Todd and Constance have been searching for solace ever since they lost their only son in the attacks of September 11, 2001. After years being stuck in a tragic inertia, they feel, at last, something must be done. So, they’ve come to a big city arts museum to find a “messenger” to help deliver their response to the world. 

World Premiere

A hard-hitting new drama which follows an eminent scientist who must answer to both his family and the government for allegedly conducting unauthorized genetic experiments on his own son. As advancements in biotechnology race ahead of our legal and ethical understanding, Reinventing Eden balances the innate human desire to give our children a better future against the arrogance of creating the perfect baby.

Once an African warrior, Ater Dahl is now one of the Lost Boys of Sudan battling for a new life in urban Chicago. Clashing over how to best help the torn refugee are Diane, a recently widowed socialite, and Reggie, an African-American clergyman. Each character’s unique perspective is pitted against the others to reveal how fundamentally different, yet unexpectedly similar, we all can be. In the end, Since Africa shows how four extraordinary people grapple with loss, identity, and the challenges of creating a new home.

Philadelphia Premiere

Susan and her boyfriend Raj have been singled out of a line at an airport and profiled by the FBI. Fueled by moral outrage and righteous indignation, Susan is certain their civil rights have been violated, while Raj is strangely indifferent. As the couple process their experience, secrets and contradictions are revealed that suggest there might just be some basis for the profiling. In the age of global terrorism, Flack’s subtle and absorbing play examines the effects of heightened concern with security in the lives of everyday Americans.

Philadelphia Premiere

From the award-winning author of A Walk in the Woods and Going to St. Ives comes this scathingly funny and provocative new play. Delve into  the twisted mind of Raoul Raoul de Raoul, a retired Central American army general on trial in Florida for authorizing the murder of four nuns. In Raoul’s mind, everyone’s a prostitute, and Whores uses wicked humor and theatricality to expose the horrifying perversity of mass media, the legal system, military corruption, and U.S. foreign policy.

“A ferocious comedy [with] high-powered verbal brutality” says The New York Times about this surprise London hit. Two British psychiatrists battle over the diagnosis of an elusive and electrifying patient who claims to be the son of an infamous African dictator. With their jobs on the line, doctors hurl accusations of racism and careerism, revealing their  complicity in the deterioration of the mental health establishment. Blue/Orange exposes the astounding arrogance of the “white” power  structure in determining the future of less fortunate  minorities.

In the tradition of bee-luther-hatchee, Black Russian and 6221, Permanent Collection continues Gibbons’s exploration of racial politics in America. A work of fiction inspired by controversies surrounding the storied Barnes Foundation, Permanent Collection brings to life the conflict between the newly appointed African-American director and the museum’s exclusionary charter. Fueled by an overzealous newspaper reporter, the two men face off across the great racial divide, struggling over the space — literal and metaphorical — made available to African Americans by the white-dominated culture.

Philadelphia Premiere

A highly theatrical exploration of souls in turmoil. Set in the Kuwaiti desert, two American soldiers – one white and one Palestinian – fall in love. Each man wrestles with his own passions and demons as the play shifts fluidly between the past and present, reality and spirit world. At the intersection of sensuality and brutality, In the Heart of America exposes our national love affair with violence from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf. InterAct is proud to be the first company in Philadelphia to present this work by celebrated playwright Naomi Wallace,  whose play reminds us that wounded souls never rest.

World Premiere

Emboldened by his deceased father’s passion for music, his grandfather’s love of Jewish tradition, his mother’s intellectual prowess, his rabbi’s mentorship, and his girlfriends' intense love and encouragement, the brilliant and sensitive Edward immerses himself in a mission to contribute to the world. Tormented by an insatiable sexual appetite that threatens to derail his holy pursuits, he finds himself increasingly conflicted on his journey towards oneness with God. With passion, humor, and humanity, God of Desire explores a new matrix between seeking to do good, the search for new ideas, spirituality, and sexuality. 

Philadelphia Premiere

From the award-winning author of A Walk in the Woods! In this compelling new drama, the moth of a Central African dictator travels to England seeking surgery for her failing eyes by an eminent ophthalmologtist. But her real motive triggers a profound moral dilemma and a bloody chain reaction with peronsal political reveberations. Going to St. Ives presents two impressive women whose political and cultural differences define and divide them as they attempt to accomplish the greatest good.

World Premiere

In present-day Cairo, a naive British writer and an Egyptian university covertly live as lovers. Surrounded by poverty, religious morally-centered, yet disenfranchised men pursue divergent paths toward escape and extremism. Playwright Tom Coash’s shocking and timely story inventively contrasts the perils of forbidden love in an intolerant culture with the absurdity of government bureaucracy. Cry Havoc  paints an alternately searing and  humorous portrait of love and survival in the volatile Middle-East.

Philadelphia Premiere

The eldest daughter of the legendary Kennedy family is slowed, clumsier, and more erratic than her all-American siblings. As the black sheep of the country’s most powerful dynasty, Rosemary becomes a potential public embarrassment at a time when image and ambition dictate all decisions. To what lengths will patriarch Joseph Kennedy go to persevere the family’s political influence? Winner of the 2002 Jefferson Award for best new work in its Chicago premiere, Rosemary takes a penetrating look at the first – and lesser known – Kennedy tragedy. 

Philadelphia Premiere 

A funny and touching drama depicting the rivalry between a retiring pastor of the country’s biggest evangelical Baptist church and his charismatic young successor. Playwright David Rambo skillfully examines the power of faith and the politics of organized religion. God's Man in Texas was a huge hit at the Actors Theatre of Louisville 1999 Humana Festival for New Plays. 

World Premiere

Another fantastical work of theatrical invention by the author of InterAct’s critically-acclaimed world premiere production of Drink Me, Jambulu takes us to the Mojave Desert and into the Research Institute for the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life Forms. When a group of misfit scientists finally comes into contact with an alien life form, all are changed in unimaginable ways…most conspicuously turning a shocking shade of green! Is this the beginning of a new race, or the end of humanity as we know it?

World Premiere

When Nathan and Gloria Berman lose their only child in a sudden tragedy, they are catapulted into conflicting crises of faith. Written with humor and humanity by InterAct’s Producing Artistic Director Seth Rozin. MISSING LINK asks the question, “What do you believe in when the inexplicable and unthinkable happens to you?” MISSING LINK in an ultimately hopeful play about grief, faith and evolution, and features Dave Jadico, Drucie McDaniel, Harry Philibosian, Seth Reichgott, Catharine K. Slusar and Maureen Torsney-Weir. 

Philadelphia Premiere

On the eve of Richard Nixon’s resignation, Henry Kissinger visits the President. The two most influential men in American engage in scandalous brainstorming and theatrical role-playing as they try to hold onto their empire and assess their places in history. Nixon’s Nixon is directed in InterAct’s producing Artistic Director Seth Rozin and stars Tim Moyer as Richard Nixon and Harry Philibosian as Henry Kissinger.

In the waning days of the Kosovo conflict, two Jewish-American doctors travel to Macedonia to offer their services to Albanian refugees. Into the chaos of the medical camp, a mysterious boy arrives, forcing the doctors to re-examine their actions and the personal ethics that guide them. A powerful and engaging play that measures the naivete of altruism against realities of war.

Cast

John Lumia

Benjamin White

Matt Saunders (Barrymore Award Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor)

Laurie Norton

Ralph Edmonds

Carol Florence

Production Team

Andrei Efremoff, Scenery

Peter Jakubowski, Lighting

Margaret K. McCarty, Costumes

Brady Gonsalves, Stage Manager

U.S. Premiere

Broadway “wunderkind” Orson Welles and John Houseman ignore growing labor tensions and challenge government censorship as the rally to stage Marc Blitzstein’s controversial musical “The Cradle Will Rock.”  IT’S ALL TRUE is a fast-paced, sharply written, passionate comedy about the magic of theatre and the commitment to something greater than yourself.

Philadelphia Premiere

What happens when your satire is taken seriously? This smart, new comedy follows the story of a liberal author whose satiric novel about America’s decaying morality is published as a work of non-fiction. He is immediately embraced by the country’s far right and finds himself at the center of a national media frenzy. Winner of nine national playwriting awards and festivals!

World Premiere

A day like any other at a diner in 1970…A gifted African American boy is made indelibly aware of his color by an ambitious young reporter. 29 years later, old tensions resurface and new flames ignite when they meet for a second interview. From the author of BEAST ON THE MOON comes this subtle yet powerful play about coming to terms with one’s identity, and the the burden of responsibility that role models bear.

World Premiere

Thousand of vagrant men are disappearing from the streets of London, and suspicion  falls on a trio of modern day witches. A deliciously perverse British mystery with a pinch of science fiction, and a dash of drawing-room comedy, DRINK ME offers up some surprising solutions to the world’s overpopulation problem. An audience favorite in the 1999 Showcase of New Plays! Karen Krastel, Rebecca Hatcher Lisak, Mary McCool, Tim ,oyer, Catharine K. Slusar and Maureen Torsney-Weir.

Featuring monologues by B.J. Burton, Mark Cofta, Jon Dorf, Elizabeth Emmons, David Federman, Eli Finkelman & Michael Hollinger

Directed by Deborah Block, Joe Canuso, Mark Cofta, Serena Halley, Adrienne Lamb, Seth Rozin & Maureen Torsney-Weir 

World Premiere

Nearly 70 writers from the Philadelphia area submitted for consideration for this evening of monologues about the new millennium. The 14 monologues performed demonstrate the variety and depth of writing in our region. But more than that, they make a good evening of theatre. Moving, funny, insightful, poetic, troubling and inspiring, these monologues represent a  diverse array of new voices and new ideas. They also suggest there is a vein of riches in our region.

Philadelphia Premiere

From the creator of M*A*S*H and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum comes this clever satire of Senate hearings, complete with pompously posturing politicians, protesting lawyers, squirming Secret Service agents, and sensationalizing reporters. The circus-like proceedings, will be played by a combination of Philadelphia’s funniest actors and a handful of hilarious puppets. Designed and directed by three-time Barrymore Award-winner and Guggenheim Fellow Robert Smythe.

World Premiere

A successful African American editor tracks down the author of a bestselling autobiography and is startled and enraged when she discovers the author’s true identity. Following tremendous critical acclaim of Black Russian and 6221, Gibbons offers his most dynamic and provocative play yet!

Philadelphia Premiere

It is the beginning of the 21st century. The new German chancellor invites six million Jews from around the world to make Germany their home as a gesture of reconciliation. What follows is a fast-paced, futuristic docudrama in which three actors play over eighty roles, and Horovitz takes every point of view. A provocative vaudeville by one of America’s most celebrated writers.

Albee’s most inventive play centers around Nancy and Charlie, a comfortable middle-aged couple pondering their future on a lazy afternoon at a secluded New England beach. When confronted by a pair of sea creatures who have evolves out of the ocean, Nancy and Charlie are drawn into a hilarious and life-altering exploration of their deepest fears and prejudices. An intelligent, witty, deeply human look at the unstoppable momentum of evolution and the ways we insulate ourselves from others who are “different.”

Philadelphia Premiere

A provocative play about the banality of evil from one of America’s most daring playwrights. Lemon is an impressionable young girl who grows up enamored with the radical ideas and hedonistic lifestyle of her dynamic childhood inspiration “Aunt” Dan. As we watch Lemon absorb Aunt Dan’s insidious logic, we see her slowly come to internalize the most dangerous thoughts. Through savage humor and brilliantly twisted thinking, Wallace Shawn takes us on a fascinating and disquieting journey into the core of human nature.

World Premiere

Under Yelena, a beautiful and moving drama by award-winning playwright Buffy Sedlachek, follows two Soviet scientists who risk their lives to discover the truth about Chernobyl. Amid the rubble of failed technology and a country in political chaos, these two heroic individuals develop a unique friendship and embrace their shared heritage.

Cast

Tim Moyer

Lisbeth Bartlett

Production Team

Andrei Efremoff, Scenery

Peter Jakubowski, Lighting

Larisa Ratnikoff, Costumes

Ron Schindlinger, Sound

Pat Sabato, Stage Manager

The remarkable story of a father and son, each seeking a new life in a land of opportunity. Black Russian is one of the first American plays to explore the fall of communism. It takes us on a dramatic journey through 20th Century history through a time when such cultural luminaries as Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes became enchanted with the communist vision of the future. Black Russian is a tale of two extraordinary individuals–fascinating history, full of humor and humanity.

Marisol by Jose Rivera, directed by Seth Rozin

U.S. Premiere

Cast

Benjamin Lloyd

Doug Wing/Tim Moyer

Benjamin White

Hazel Bowers

John Barrett

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery & Lighting

Maxine Hartswick, Costumes

William Whelan, Stage Manager

Philadelphia Premiere

A futuristic fantasy about a young woman’s search for love and salvation. Marisol Perez is propelled through an absurd nightmare in the streets of New York. As gods and angels wage an apocalyptic battle in the sky, Marisol encounters other innocent, lost souls who have been corrupted by a crumbling world and who cling to their tiny fragments of humanity. Marisol is a frighteningly funny vision of the end of the present age and the beginning of a new order.

Philadelphia Premiere

A compassionate comedy about friendship and fear in the age of AIDS.

Cast

Frank X (Barrymore Award for Outstanding Lead Actor)

David Warner

Production Team

Gianne Connard, Scenery

Peter Whinnery, Lighting

Kevin Ross, Costumes

Darla Max, Fight Choreography

Alison Cote, Stage Manager

World Premiere

The compelling story of Ana and Ricardo Castillo, an upper-class Central American couple who risk their lives when they enlist in their country’s revolution. Their cousin Jorge is the chief of police. Their young friend Carlos is a leader in the rebel camp. Upon the arrival of two American intruders – a “witness” defending human rights and a representative of the CIA – conflicts intensify. Will Ana and Ricardo’s fight for justice add them to the list of the disappeared? Ideals, family ties, and politics are intertwined in this absorbing drama of commitment and responsibility.

Philadelphia Premiere

Meet Vincent Chang, successful veteran of Hollywood B-movies, and Bradley Yamashita, an aggressive and naive young actor. Together they discuss, debate, and dream about life in “the business” – professional successes, personal failures, artistic compromises, and constant struggles to overcome old stereotypes and prejudices. Yankiee Dawg You Die is a humorous and poignant commentary on the Asian-American experience by one of this country’s best young playwrights.

Philadelphia Premiere

A starling portrait of the Reverend Jim Jones as he exhorts hundreds of down-and-out followers to commit mass suicide in Guyana in 1978. Witness the fascinating and disturbing journey of the People’s Temple in which 913 people, mostly African-American, allow a single individual to lead them to the jungles of South America to commit the most horrible act of faith imaginable. WHITE NIGHT explores one man’s demonic obsession with power as he preys upon America’s needy and unwanted, shocking the entire world.

Philadelphia Premiere

Imagine a sleazy bar overlooking the crater of an active volcano in Hawaii. This is the exotic and surreal battleground for The White Death in which a curious clash of cultures takes place between a Filipino immigrant bartender, a native Hawaiian prostitute, a Mainland American tourist, an undercover evangelist and a Japanese mafioso. The White Death is a fascinating black comedy about the collision of myths and struggle for identity on a tropical island where nature always gets the last laugh.

Cast

John Barrett

Frank X

Brian Anthony Wilson

Tyna Tyler

Hugh Choi

Jack Dougherty

Production Team

Hiroshi Iwasaki, Scenery

Peter Whinnery, Lighting

June Fortunato, Costumes

Aaron Lewis Levinson

Aurenna Komisar, Stage Manager

World Premiere

The dramatic portrait of Mildred Gillars, an American woman who follows her heart and loses her soul broadcasting Nazi propaganda during World War II. Based on a true story, Axis Sally explores the complex character of a “traitor,” who discovers that her identity as an American is intertwined with her own capacity for self-deception. Gibbons’s dynamic new play explores the issue of complicit and the conflict between personal desire and public responsibility, asking the question, “What does it mean to be an American?”

Cast

Lilian Rozin

Robert O’Neill

John Barrett

James Schlatter

Margot Trieger

Sheila Murphy

Daniel Smith

David Warner

Joseph Pokorny

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery & Lighting

Jym Paris, Costumes

Arnold Goldman, Sound

Adrienne Neye, Stage Manager

World Premiere

A dynamic, three-act docudrama about the MOVE tragedy of 1985. Based on transcripts from public hearings, police reports, newspaper articles and personal interviews from many of the living participants, 6221 explored the MOVE organization’s volatile and prophetic conflict with West Philadelphia neighbors and City government that culminated in Philadelphia’s most infamous tragedy.

Cast

Vincent Yates

Frank X

Amani Kuwasha Gethers

Mets Suber

Bruce Robinson

Shelita Birchett

Yvette Ganier

Cathy Simpson

Lilian Rozin

Brad Thoennes

Tom McCarthy

Russ Widdall

Neill Hartley

Jeff Morrison

Anthon Parson

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery & Lighting

Chryss Hionis, Costumes

Scott Roberts, Sound

Marguerite Price, Stage Manager

Morocco 
by Alan Havis
directed by Seth Rozin

Philadelphia Premiere

The noirish tale of an American Jewish architect who tangles with a Moroccan colonel over the jailing of the architect’s half-Arab wife for a questionable charge of prostitution.

Cast

Stephen Hatzai

Bruce Robinson

Lilian Rozin

Ruth wells Fischer

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery & Lighting

Eilieen McEntee, Costumes

David Borden & Jim Harp, Original Music

Sheila Berman, Stage Manager

The Bacchae of Euripedes
by Wole Soyinka
directed by Seth Rozin

American Premiere

An African-inspired adaptation of the Greek classic, THE BACCHAE, pitting the delirious masses against an authoritarian government.

Cast

Bruce Robinson

Frank X

Eric Parham

John Wellmann

Neill Hartley

Robert Anu Hubbard

Colin Campbell

Christopher Roberts

Ruth Blake

Tammarah Carper

Susan Nicodemus

Lisa Silberman

Faith Barlow

George Spencer

Melvin Williams

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery & Lighting

Chryss Hionis, Costumes

Darko Tresnjak, Choreography

David Borden & Jim Harp, Original Music

Sara Rutstein, Stage Manager

Statues 
by Michael Hollinger
directed by Seth Rozin

World Premiere

Commissioned by CosaCosa Art-at-Large, this play was devised to be performed at statues around Philadelphia, drawing local communities into a conversation about what matters most to them.

Cast

Jeff Morrison

Stephen Hatzai

Shelita Birchett

Lilian Rozin

Frank X

Bruce Robinson

Pretending to America
by Thomas Gibbons
directed by Seth Rozin

World Premiere

A political refugee and torture victim from an African country seeks asylum in the U.S. but in order to summon the courage to attend his hearing, he must face the moment in his torture when his will to resist was broken.

Cast

Frank X

Evelyn McGee

Bruce Robinson

Eric Parham

Production Team

Peter Whinney, Scenery

Rebeca Frederick, Lighting

Chryss Hionis, Costumes

Sheila Berman, Stage Manager

A Photograph
by Ntozake Shange
directed by Seth Rozin

Philadelphia Premiere

A young black man tries to make it as a professional photographer and is surrounded by caricatures of black people gone wrong.

Cast

Eric Parham

Joan Huckstep

Cathy Simpson

Shelita Birchett

Frank X

Production Team

Peter Whinney, Scenery

Rebeca Frederick, Lighting

Chrys Hionis, Costumes

Sheila Berman, Stage Manager

Joan Huckstep, Choreography

Mud
by Maria Irene Fornes
directed by Seth Rozin

Philadelphia Premiere

A bleak study of ignorance and rural poverty, as one young woman and two men try to live together in a cramped shack with no possibility of intellectual, personal or financial advancement.

Cast

Bruce Robinson

Lilian Rozin

Stephen Hatzai

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery

Terry Franceschi, Lighting

Maxine Hartwick, Costumes

David Borden, Original Music

Erica Schwartz-Hall, Stage Manager

Coyote Ugly
by Lynn Siefert
directed by David Bussak

Philadelphia Premiere

A dark and absurd comedy about the prodigal son who brings his wholesome fiancé back home to meet his deeply incestuous family.

Cast

Christopher Campbell

Evelyn McGee

Clista Townsend

Brian Joyce

Lilian Rozin

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery

Terry Franceschi, Lighting

Maxine Hartwick, Costumes

Erica Schwartz-Hall, Stage Manager

The Elephant Man
by Bernard Pomerance
directed by Brad Rosenstein

The story of Dr. Frederick Treves who seeks to treat and understand his most extraordinary patient, John Merrick, a former circus freak who suffers from a rare skin and bone disease that makes him horribly deformed.

Cast

Stephen Hatzai

Christopher Stewart

Clista Towne

Lilian Rozin

Evelyn McGee

Brian Joyce

Bruce Robinson

Christopher Campbell

Production Team

Peter Whinnery, Scenery

Terry Franceschi, Lighting

Maxine Hartwick, Costumes

Erica Schwartz-Hall, Stage Manager

A middle-aged, empty-nester contemplates the purpose of the rest of their life on a quiet New England beach, when they are confronted by a couple of sea lizards who have just emerged out of the ocean. An intelligent, witty, deeply human look at the unstoppable momentum of evolution, and the ways we distance ourselves from others who are “different”.

Cast

Frank Wood

Grace Gonglewski

Bruce Robinson

Lilian Rozin

Production Team

Terry Franceschi, Scenery & Lighting

Tzufen Liao, Costumes

Erica Schwarts-Hall, Stage Manager

Bob Stephenson, Technical Director