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TIME SIGNATURES
The archived instant message log of a fringe online support group. Users take back control by setting a personal date to end their lives. They count down the days together, chatting about work, movies, and practical effects.
Written & directed by Noah Latty
Projection Designed by Attilio Rigotti
Sound Designed by Ryan Gamblin
Light Designed by Jaqueline Scaletta
Stage Management: Alexa Sacks-Wilner
Assistant Director: Sam DeBell
Dramaturgy: Nicholas Sanchez
Starring Anike Sonuga, Eli Wassertzug, Felix Teich, Kayla Juntilla, Leah Plane-Weiner, Sam Carbery, Sydni Ditcher, Thomas Wagner, & Ben Gassman
YO WTF IS THE APOCALYPSE
“YO WTF is The Apocalypse?” is a collection of sketches about what “the end of the world” might look like, and contemplating whether or not it's already started.
Created by Guy-Paul Ramón Delisfort & Jacob Alexander Augustin
Written by Anike Sonuga, Cassie Carlyle, Guy-Paul Ramón Delisfort, Jared Sterling, & Jordan Miles
Starring: Ariana Pérez, Carson Thomas, Eva Gray, Henry Boston, Jacob Alexander Augustin, Jared Sterling, Jordan Deane, Jonathan Lorenzo Price, Kobe Patrick, Lyric Weis & Sung Choi
QUICK + DIRTY 13
An excerpt of a new play presented as a part of the developmental series, which follows two sisters who reunite to process the loss of an old friend in the midst of a black out.
Written by Anike Sonuga
Directed by Michelle Chan
Produced by Quick + Dirty
Starring: Madyson Bolton & Alinca Hamilton
GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!
Competition, friendship, lots of jokes, and the general looming eye of the patriarchy. 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' in short is a strip club ballet of sorts. Baby stripper, Star, comes to the club searching for a couple bands and maybe a few friends, but swirling around her is six other dancers and a manager with an inferiority complex & a thing for younger girls. Despite the mixed signals from her coworkers and mixed feelings about the environment, she is determined to stay in the spotlight.
Written by Anike Sonuga
Directed by Damayanti Wallace
Movement direction by Imani Monet
Produced by Harlot
Starring: Quenisha Moss, Imani Monet, Zuzu Lewis, Hunter Hope Barnett, Anna Barrett, Eve Nichelle Taylor, Mia Sterbini, & Jonathan Lorenzo Price
PRISON QUEENS
Art, pop, and drag are illegal, locking up some of the greatest divas of all time. A French boy from the past with an insatiable appetite is on a mission to free them all.
Prison Queens by Eduardo Borja will go up as a reading The Tank’s PrideFest.
Written & directed by Eduardo Borja
Starring Anike Sonuga, Jordan Rashdan, Lorenzo Lukban, Freddy Daniele, JJ Pierce, Nyah Anderson, Hayley Krey, & Sebastian Zuniga
LIAHONA
Welcome to Camp Liahona: an LDS Girls Camp for Young Women hoping to forge lifelong friendships, strengthen their relationship to their Heavenly Father, and experience the beauty of His Creation. There is absolutely nothing nefarious or gay going on here.
Sweat, hormones, discharge secreting through the landscape. Teenage girls learning about rules in a world that isn’t really built for their actual desires. Its world is full of rules and people who seem to choose which rules to follow, and when to hide or reveal which rules they follow. Leaders with no followers, followers with no leaders. There’s a sinister presence behind the singing, the stickers, the fun—is it God? Who’s going to betray who? Who wants to kiss who? Who wants in, who wants out?
Liahona went up as a reading of a new play in Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks, written in the theater’s Early-Career Writers’ Group.
Written by Anike Sonuga
Directed by Damayanti Wallace
Produced by Clubbed Thumb
Starring: Anna Barrett, Tara Halpern, Kelly McAndrew, Ariana Pérez, Tiana Richards, Nuala Sanchez, Jaylen Taylor
GOD AND ALL HER CHILDREN
It’s August. The summer before senior year. It’s too hot to do anything and too close to the beginning of school to go anywhere else, so D and Gigi spend their days hanging out with God, a woman who has lived in their neighborhood so long that no one knew what else to call her. D and Gigi have been friends for years, but when Gigi receives an offer to play football at a school across the country, disagreement arises. D and Gigi come to God’s porch to process life and discuss their experiences with religion, family, and community.
TIME SIGNATURES
This is a reading of a play by Noah Latty about a suicide cult in an online chatroom.
Written & directed by Noah Latty
Dramaturgy & tech by Eulália Comas
Starring Anike Sonuga, Sam Carberry, Sydni Dichter, Kayla Juntilla, Jesse Koehler, Cashel O’Malley, Leah Plante-Wiener, Austin Purnell, & Nick Sanchez
Photos by Sam DeLeon
SAPPHIRE
Self-identified real-ass bitch and Angry Black Woman, Peola is unlucky in love and constantly asking herself the age-old question: “When is it my turn to be happy?” After a near-death experience, she decides to make a change in her life and undergoes an experimental surgical procedure to get a BBI (Be Better Implant). Peola finally has a chance at happiness and embracing her divine feminine, as well as finding a man, but the implant and its creator are not without complications and not as perfect as they seem. Sapphire is a surreal afro-futurist satire about the stereotypes we give ourselves and others, the idea of perfection and the ideal woman, and the concept of change.
Written by Ella Lee Davidson
Directed by Jordan Powell
Produced by Paul William Levine
Stage managed by Qu’Raun Scott-McKoy
Set and projections by Leon Caleb Christian & Kai Hartman
Costume design by Jason Goodwin
Sound and original music by Camelia Muniz Torres
Lighting by Iman Louis-Jeune
Starring: Anike Sonuga, Scenarious Thurmond, Jordan Jackson, Doyin Ajijola, & Netty Fremont
GOD AND ALL HER CHILDREN
The summer before their senior year of high school, two boys come to God’s porch to process life and the impending future.