Julie Lutz New Play Festival
JUNE 11 - 29, 2025
THE JULIE LUTZ NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
The Julie Lutz New Play Festival, formerly the Cold Read Festival, surrounds the world premiere production of Rogelio Martinez’s The National Pastime, which was commissioned and incubated as part of Cold Read 2022. Curated by Associate Artistic Director Melissa Crespo, the Julie Lutz New Play Festival features Festival Playwright-in-Residence Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel and Central New York's own "Write Here" playwright Zizi Majid.
“Every play was once a new play. This festival is all about giving our audiences a fun and engaging up-close view to exciting new works for the stage, access to the writers who dare to create it, and a better understanding of the creative process.” – Kyle Bass, Syracuse Stage Resident Playwright
ABOUT JULIE LUTZ
Dr. Julie Lutz was a ground-breaking astronomer and professor who loved traveling, the outdoors, music, food, and theatre. She was a champion of the arts and deeply committed to issues around diversity and inclusion. In 2023, The Julie Lutz New Play Development Fund was established at Syracuse Stage to specifically support the development of exciting new work for the theatre. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1972. Her research focused on planetary nebulae, gas clouds formed by expiring stars. From 1971-96, she worked at Washington State University, serving first as the planetarium director and later as the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Science Education and director of the astronomy program. Lutz chaired the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics from 1992-96 and was active in improving primary and secondary school science education. She also served as the director of the Division of Astronomical Sciences for the National Science Foundation from 1990-92 and as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific from 1991-93. In 2000, she began working at the University of Washington as a NASA educator and was a professor emeritus. She was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004, the United Negro College Fund gave Julie and her second husband, George Wallerstein, the President’s Award for their long-term fundraising activities for the organization.
This project is made possible with funds from the County of Onondaga with the support of the County Executive and administered by CNY Arts.
FROM THE FESTIVAL CURATOR
Before I worked at Syracuse Stage, I made a career as a director who specializes in new plays and musicals, even new operas. I’ve always loved working alongside writers—directing can be lonely. But most exciting is the challenge of mapping unchartered territory. I am an explorer of a new planet and discovering the terrain. And sometimes, the questions and choices I make as a director are woven into the script, tying me to that story forever. It’s never boring and every process is different.
When I was hired as associate artistic director of Syracuse Stage in 2021, I was thrilled to learn that I inherited a new play festival. Instead of just directing new work, I had the privilege of providing opportunities and resources to writers, actors, dramaturgs, and other directors.
When Kyle Bass first launched the Cold Read Festival in the 2016/17 season, his goal was to dedicate a space for audiences and artists alike to experience brand-new plays in the making, “to demystify the playmaking process and the idea of new plays so that audiences leave with a hunger and a thirst about new work.” Kyle’s extensive career as a playwright and decades-long relationship with Syracuse Stage has helped to ensure
that new play development remains an essential part of our mission.
Making new plays and musicals is, first and foremost, a labor of love. Unless they’re incredibly lucky, most writers don’t get paid until they can convince a theater to produce their work. And that can take years. Historically, the arts are underfunded and undervalued. Many of the incubators and residencies that used to be reliable go-tos, like The Lark and Sundance Theatre Program, have scaled back or disappeared altogether. Syracuse Stage is grateful to Julie Lutz for her generosity, which means that Syracuse will remain a home to artists charting new territory. It’s no wonder that Julie was an astronomer. Her name and legacy will be filled with the brightest of our stars: Writers.
– Melissa Crespo
A JULIE LUTZ NEW PLAY FESTIVAL WORK IN PROGRESS
FEATURED PLAYWRIGHT-IN-RESIDENCE
Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Melissa Crespo
Armando Gutierrez*
Samora La Perdida*
Karis Wiggins
STAGE MANAGERS
Brian Crotty
Sarai Ford
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert Hupp
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Carly DiFulvio Allen
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Melissa Crespo RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT
Kyle Bass
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT
I am a writer who has dreamt of a space like this for a long, long time. In times like these, when the theatre has struggled to find her way back to herself after COVID and amidst the NEA (and other) cuts, it is a blessing to be invited by a company to not only be in residence at their space, but to also use that time to create a new piece without the pressure to create a product at the end.
The Julie Lutz New Play Festival is a rare occurrence. There are plays in different stages of development— from Rogelio Martinez's The National Pastime receiving a full world premiere production, to a play like mine, a new story just coming to light. After Melissa invited me to attend this festival to develop a new piece, my first thought was: What story to tell? She encouraged me and reminded me that, though a story at the center is important, we can slowly find our way there by simply creating a room where we can hold questions, ideas, research, and more.
Usually, this part of the process is one that I embark on alone. I hole up in my house for weeks, and throw everything at the wall, but so many times, nothing sticks—I am alone with my doubts and my fears, my anxieties and my questions, and the
only thing telling me the way is the voice inside. But how to listen? How to listen, when the world outside is so loud?! How it tells me to look away, to not even take the first step!
A residency like this is a gift, an exception. Melissa and Syracuse Stage have invited a community of artists to gather in a room to listen closely, to throw not only their spaghetti at the wall, but also their inspirations, stories, questions, rituals, memories, songs, and even ourselves. Our task? To play—within the world of the play in our rehearsal room—and listen to the voice inside, beginning to find the light of day.
– Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel
CAST
Armando Gutierrez (Actor) is so happy to be back! Syracuse Stage credits include Once and Primary Trust. In N.Y.C. he has appeared off-Broadway at the Signature Theater, Minetta Lane and Atlantic Theater Company. Regionally he was in the world premiere of Run, Bambi, Run at Milwaukee Rep, the actor/musician revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown at Cincinnati Playhouse, and the new adaptation of The Old Man and the Old Moon at South Coast Repertory. Special Thanks to Melissa, PMA, and the entire Syracuse Stage team. All my love to my family, friends, and Lanae. @tecatemando
Samora la Perdida (she/they) ( Actor ) is a 2024 Princess Grace Award winner and YoungArts Fellow. She starred in Notes on Killing… at Soho Rep and Yale Rep, Quiara Alegría Hudes' My Broken Language at Signature Theatre and A Transparent Musical at the Mark Taper Forum. Film credits include Queens of The Dead and La Cocina. Music from her musical Spanglish Sh!T can be heard on Playbill’s Songwriter Series as well as her TEDx Talk: Do Latines Need To Speak Spanish? Spanglish Sh!T will be presented at the David Rockerfeller Creative Arts Center in August. Graduate of Carnegie Mellon Drama. @samoraperdida
Karis Wiggins (Actor) is thrilled to be part of the Julie Lutz New Play Festival, diving into the exciting process of workshopping a brand-new theatrical production. For the past year, she has served as an Artistic Ambassador for Syracuse Stage and recently had the opportunity to understudy in their production of Agatha Christie’s Murder on The Orient Express. Some of her favorite past credits include Angels in America, Noises Off, Twelfth Night, and her self-produced one-woman show, Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Karis has performed extensively in both regional theater and New York City, taking on numerous original roles in plays by local playwrights. In addition, she has a diverse portfolio of audiobook work with Full Cast Audio, voicing characters ranging from a mother to an alien to a Scottish dragon.
Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel is a trans Guatemalan playwright, born in Guatemala and raised in Connecticut. Her works are spiritual, hypertheatrical narratives that give Black & Brown Queer/Trans voices a space to interrogate core wounds and offer them a path towards healing. Esperanza’s plays have been supported by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Roundabout Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Kennedy Center, the Tank, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, and New York Theater Workshop. Esperanza is the recipient of the Princeton Ward Prize for Fiction and Outstanding Achievement in Theater Prize, the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Scholarship from the Yale School of Drama, and the Paul Greene Award from the National Theatre Conference. Her play, Color Boy, received the Kennedy Center’s Latinx Playwriting Award and Paula Vogel Playwriting Award (finalist), an Honorable Mention from the 2024 Relentless Award, a nomination for the 2025 Venturous Playwright Fellowship from the Playwright’s Center, and was named the Connecticut State Winner for the Clauder Prize from Portland Stage. Her play Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams was a finalist for the 2024 Leah Ryan Prize, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the Van Lier Fellowship for New Voices at Rattlestick Theater, and is also a current finalist for the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Lupe Finds Me was developed through New York Theater Workshop’s 2024 Summer Dartmouth Residency, and was presented at the 2024 Breaking the Binary Theatre Festival at Playwrights Horizons. She is a two time finalist for the O’Neill Theatre Conference and nominee for the Ollie Award, a one time nominee for the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award at the Williamstown Theater Festival and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and is a contributor to the second volume of Methuen Drama’s Anthology of Trans Plays. She is currently a Teaching Artist for the Public Theater, an IB Theater Advisor at Brooklyn Prospect Charter High School, and a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where she produced and mentored the playwrights working on the 2024-2025 Carlotta Festival and the Langston Hughes Festival of New Plays. B.A.: Princeton, M.F.A.: Yale
DRAMATURG
Kristin Leahey
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert Hupp
PRESENTS
A JULIE LUTZ NEW PLAY FESTIVAL "WRITE HERE" READING
MILK
BY
Zizi Majid
DIRECTED BY
Melissa Crespo
CAST
Neagheen Homaifar*..............................Sofia Awni Abdi-Bahri*...........Amina, Maria, Sarah Hend Ayoub*................................Aunty, Bab Salma Mahmoud..........................Zeina, Joan
STAGE MANAGERS
Brian Crotty
Sarai Ford
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Carly DiFulvio Allen
CASTING Gregory Jafari VanAcker Bass/Valle Casting
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Melissa Crespo
PRODUCTION
Annie McCurdy
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
Kyle Bass
JUNE 14, 2025
FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT
I first started thinking about this play in the summer of 2023 after reading about the disturbingly common occurrence of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean Sea in overfilled iron vessels. These vessels are hastily built and the price of passage is extortionist. The gangs running these routes abandon their charges at the first sign of trouble, leaving desperate families to drown in the open sea.
One thing was clear as day to me: No one wants to be on a dangerously unsafe ship; no mother wants to soothe a teething toddler in the hold of a make-shift iron vessel. Unless life itself had become impossible. Unless getting on that ship was the only choice left, the only way to have even the tiniest shot at a life of grace and dignity.
As world events have ratcheted up to include heretofore unimagined cruelties and depravations, it is clear there is only one choice left—for those of us who have the privilege of choice—and that is to acknowledge that in order to be human, we must be expansive in our humanity.
In my culture, we often say that you become human. Thus to become human, we must live to the best of our humanity, with as much integrity as we can muster, and grant others as much dignity as we can. Grace and mercy for one another is the only acceptable choice, because the moment we decide that someone else’s life fulfilling dream matters less than our own—resorting to cruelty and mockery while submitting that dream to abandonment and sacrifice—is the moment we cease to be human.
– Zizi Majid
PLAYWRIGHT
ZIZI MAJID.
CAST
Awni Abdi-Bahri (Amina, Maria, Sarah) is a multidisciplinary actor and writer based in both Los Angeles and New York City. She has performed on Broadway in POTUS (Shubert Theatre); off-Broadway: Persian Pod (Ars Nova), Bismillah (Wild Project), and The Welcoming Committee (The Lark); Regionally: Wish You Were Here (South Coast Repertory and Yale Repertory); TV/Film: Girls on the Bus (HBO Max), Evil (Paramount+), Ahamed’s Ramadan Diary (Comedy Central), and Eradication (Tubi). As a writer, her latest play, Three Tall Persian Women, had its world premiere at Shakespeare and Company fall of 2024 to glowing reviews. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Columbia University.
Hend Ayoub (Aunty, Bab) is a New York-based actor and writer. Her solo show HOME? will have its world premiere this July in San Francisco, followed by a N.Y.C. run in September. Theatre: Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (with Robin Williams); Off-Broadway: 9 Kinds of Silence (PlayCo), First Down (Noor); Regional: A Thousand Splendid Suns (Arena Stage), Kiss (Yale Rep), American Fast (InterAct), and Veils (Portland/Barrington Stage). Television credits include Homeland, Orange Is the New Black, The Looming Tower, Madam Secretary, Royal Pains, Feed the Beast, The Accidental Wolf, and recurring roles on Transparent and Damages. Film: Emmy Award-winning Death of a President, the multi-award-winning Private, and the new film If You See Something. HendAyoub.com
Neagheen Homaifar (she/her) (Sofia) English (Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park), Selling Kabul (Signature Theatre) and Scorched (ExPats Theatre). Film/Television: Me (AppleTV+), Killing It (Peacock), The Resident (Fox), Before Dawn, Kabul Time (Hillman Grad). Education: Harvard University. Website: www.neagheen.com. Instagram: @neagheen
Salma Mahmoud (Zeina, Joan) is a rising senior acting major in the Syracuse University Department of Drama from Queens, N.Y. She is so excited to be working with Syracuse Stage again after playing Wolfgang in the Children’s Tour production of Red Riding Hood, serving as the assistant director for Primary Trust, and as Lady Middleton/Gossip in the most recent production of Sense and Sensibility! She is incredibly honored to have had this experience and wants to thank her family, friends, peers, and faculty for their ongoing support.
Zizi Majid is a playwright whose plays advocate for a shared humanity. She is the inaugural recipient of the Julia Miles Playwriting Residency (WP Theatre) during which she wrote the play Milk. She was a 2022-23 Playwriting Fellow with the Dramatists Guild Foundation and is a proud alumni of the WP Lab. She won the Pacific Rim Prize for Playwriting (Kumu Kahua Theatre/University of Hawaii Manoa Playwriting Contest), has been a finalist for the Princeton Arts Fellowship, a finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Award; a thrice semi-finalist for the O’Neil National Playwrights Conference and a finalist for the Columbia@ Roundabout New Play Reading Series. Plays include They Came in the Night, Return to Fall, The Rejects, and How to Gild an Eagle. For five years, Zizi was the Artistic Director of Teater Ekamatra (Singapore) garnering multiple awards during her tenure. She teaches playwriting and drama in context at Syracuse University. MFA: Columbia University. Website: zizimajid.com "WRITE HERE" PLAYWRIGHT
DRAMATURG
Kristin Leahey, Ph.D., (Dramaturg) is an Assistant Professor at Boston University and the Associate AD of the WP Theater. She has freelanced as an artist with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the O’Neill Theater Center, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Primary Stages, Classical Stage Company, Playwrights’ Center, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Guthrie Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, American Theatre Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Ireland’s Galway Arts Festival, Teatro Vista (artistic associate), Steep Theatre (ensemble member), and A Red Orchid Theatre, among others. Her publications include articles in Theatre Topics, Journal of American Drama, and New England Theatre Journal, as well as articles in the anthologies Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy Anthology. She served as the Literary Manager of Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and the Literary Director of Seattle Rep. She is a recipient of a Fulbright and was in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre.
PRESENTS
A JULIE LUTZ NEW PLAY FESTIVAL WORLD PREMIERE
national pastime the
BY Rogelio Martinez
DIRECTED BY
Johanna McKeon
SCENIC DESIGNER
Andromache Chalfant
COSTUME DESIGNER
Andrea Lauer
PROJECTIONS DESIGNER
Stephen Stivo Arnoczy
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert Hupp
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Christopher Brown
STAGE MANA GE R Miriam Hyfler*
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Carly DiFulvio Allen
SEASON SPONSORS
MEDIA SPONSOR
SOUND DESIGNER Cody Spencer
CASTING Bass/Valle Casting
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Melissa Crespo RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT Kyle Bass
PRESENTING SPONSOR
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WILL
SPONSOR
SHOW SPONSORS
COMMUNITY PARTNER
The National Pastime is produced by special arrangement with The Gersh Agency, 41 Madison Avenue, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10010
JUNE 11 - 29, 2025
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Joe Cassidy*............................................Nat, David, Ballplayer
John J. Concado*..............................................................Oscar Cherrye J. Davis*..................................................................Val
Jorge Sánchez Díaz*.............................................................Yuri
Erick González*.............................................................Oceano
Alejandro Hernández*....................................Tim, Sean, Logan
Frank Rodríguez*..........................Josemaria, Doctor, Ballplayer
ADDITIONAL VOICEOVERS
Joe Cassidy*.................................................Baseball Announcer
John J. Concado*, Erick González*...........Voices at the Ballpark
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Associate Scenic Designer: Rebecca Lord-Surratt
Associate Costume Designer: Ricky Lurie
Associate Projections Designer: Eli Garmon
Baseball Consultant: Javier A. Maymí-Pérez
Production Assistant: Katie Barnes
Script Manager (N.Y.C.): Fiona Church
Script Manager (Syracuse): Annie McCurdy
Wig and Wardrobe Supervisor: Dylinn Andrew Dressers: Emily King, Alyssa Otoski-Keim
Wardrobe Sub: Kris Stewart
Deck Crew: Edmund Beese, Erin C Brett, Chris Green, Bayley Leyshon, Caitlin Radziewski, Fatima Yasmin
Electrician/Board Op: Kat Larrabee
Supertitles Operator: Evan Burmeister
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. The National Pastime is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
Joe Cassidy (Nat, David, Ballplayer) Syracuse Stage debut! TV/Film: Law & Order: SVU, A Murder At The End of The World, 12 Days of Christmas Eve, A Very Nutty Christmas, Evil, The Code, Blue Bloods, Elementary, Law & Order, Madame Secretary, and The Good Fight. Broadway/N.Y.C.: An Enemy Of The People, Waitress, If/Then, Catch Me If You Can, Next To Normal, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1776, Show Boat, Les Miserables, and Working (Drama Desk Award). Joe’s voice can be heard in animated series, national commercials, video games, podcasts, and audiobooks. Joe sends deep love and gratitude to his wife Ashley and his family. www.joecassidy.net
John J. Concado (Oscar) a.k.a. Juanjo, is a native New Yorker & bilingual Argentinian-American. He recently closed his first solo show in N.Y.C., Men in Shorts, where he played the writer, David Foster Wallace, and is thrilled to be making his Syracuse Stage debut. He proudly dedicates these performances to his late father Juan Roberto and to Rodney Rodriguez. Mamá y Emi, las quiero mucho. Recent Theatre: War Words (N.Y. Rep off-Bway and The Library of Congress); Romeo y Julieta starring Lupita Nyong’o (The Public Theater); Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (W.H.A.T); Anna in the Tropics (Barrington Stage). Film: Paris is in Harlem; The Rainbow Experiment; 42 Seconds of Happiness; Argentinian Intervention. TV: FBI: Most Wanted; The Deuce. Video games: Red Dead Redemption 2 and Dead Space 3. Proud SAG-AFTRA and AEA union member. @concado & JohnConcado.com
Cherrye J. Davis (Val) N.Y. Theater: The Cotillion (ARTNY), Metra (Flux Theater Ensemble), The Bad in Each Other (The Tank), Sweet Chariot (Under the Radar), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (NYCT), Best Life (Jack), Spoiled (LaMaMa), How to Mourn an American (Little Island, 2019), The Loophole (The Public Theater), And She Would Stand Like This (TMTC). Film: Covered (2020), Spoiled (The Hess Collective), Extra Room (2019), For Flow (2011 HBO Black Film Fest, Finalist), Scribbles (NYC Indie Film Fest). Music: Tony and the Kiki (vocals). Coming up: Cherrye joins the directorial team of Heaux Church, premiering at Ars Nova in Fall 2025. Follow her moves at www.CherryeJDavis.com
CAST
Jorge Sánchez Díaz ( Yuri ) (he/him) is an actor from Puerto Rico, based in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Syracuse Stage debut. Select theatre: Derecho (La Jolla Playhouse), Lío (Teatro Círculo - ATI Award, HOLA award nominee), Los empeños de una casa (Repertorio Español), The Skin of our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience), The Three Musketeers (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Tongue Depressor (The Public Theater), Junk (Theatre Raleigh), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). TV: Law & Order: SVU, FBI. Education: M.F.A. Brooklyn College. jorgesanchezdiaz.com. Gracias totales.
Erick González (Oceano) Previously at Syracuse Stage: Native Gardens. Regional: Hamlet, Twelfth Night (DCPA); Native Gardens (Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre); Farragut North (Premiere Stages). N.Y.C.: La Caída de Trujillo (Teatro Círculo); Valor Agravio y Mujer, El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Aire Frío, El Loco por Fuerza (Repertorio Español); Noche Tan Linda (Pregones/PRTT); Marfa Lights (INTAR); Pericles, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar (Hip to Hip); Macbeth (Frog and Peach). TV/Film: Evil, Madam Secretary, StarUp, A Nice Girl Like You. www.erickgonzalezactor.com
Alejandro Hernández (Tim, Sean, Logan) is a Puerto Rican Actor currently based in N.Y.C., originally from Trenton, N.J., and is grateful to be making his Syracuse Stage debut. Off-Broadway: The Beautiful Land I seek (Pregones/ PRTT). Regional: Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Rep), Between Riverside and Crazy (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Peter and the Starcatcher (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Wondrous Strange (Humana Festival), The First Immigrant and Orpheus (Williamstown Theater Festival). TV credits: The Horror of Dolores Roach, New Amsterdam, Partner Track, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, Madam Secretary, Sneaky Pete, Instinct, Chicago PD, Elementary, and Gotham. Film: American Dreamer with Jim Gaffigan, Set It Up, Monster. Training: B.F.A. in Theater Performance from Montclair State University, professional training company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and member of The Actors Center in N.Y.C.
CAST
Frank Rodríguez (Josemaría, Doctor, Ballplayer) is a New York based actor making his debut at Syracuse Stage. Some of his most recent theatre credits include: Compagnia de’ Colombari More Or Less I Am, adapted from Walt Whitman’s “Song Of Myself,” and The Merchant Of Venice. Some other credits include Pig (29th Street Rep), A Dream Of Wealth (Urban Stages), Stomp & Shout (The Babel Theatre Project), and A Bicycle Country (Theater For The New City). He has also worked extensively with N.Y.’s Spanish Repertory Theatre and ID Studio. Film credits: Ayer Otra Vez, Sugar Plum Twist, First Reformed, Fugly!, Baby Mama, Where God Left His Shoes. TV credits: Blue Bloods, The Equalizer, FBI: Most Wanted, Manifest, Madam Secretary, Seven Seconds, God Friended Me, Law & Order: CI and SVU, Feed The Beast, Mozart In The Jungle, and others. He also has a long trajectory in the commercial industry, with many on-camera, voiceover and audiobook credits.
CREATIVE TEAM
Andromache Chalfant (Scenic Designer) is a New York City based designer. She most recently designed sets for the Greek National Opera in Athens, Greece. Off-Broadway credits include productions at The Public Theater, The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, BAM Fisher, The Atlantic, and Second Stage Theater among others. Her ongoing generative projects fuse text, set design, performance, and film with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration. She is co-founder of Coffey Street Studio, an artistic laboratory in Red Hook, Brooklyn for artists of all disciplines to experiment in new performance and new play development.
Andrea Lauer (Costume Designer) Selected Design works include Broadway’s American Idiot and Bring It On, the Musical. Off Broadway: The Boy Danced on Air , School for Scandal . Regional: The Old Globe, Alliance, The Alley Theatre, Asolo Rep. International: The London Philharmonic, Shakespeare’s Globe. M.F.A. - N.Y.U., 2017 M.I.T. Media Lab Director’s Fellow.
Christopher Brown (Lighting Designer) is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer working in theater and dance. He has worked with Clubbed Thumb, Elevator Repair Service, HERE Arts Center, The Bang Group, En Garde Arts, Noor Theatre, and Danspace Project, among others. Chris Brown was awarded the 2006-07 Princess Grace Award for his work with the Mud/Bone Collective, and in 2018 he was a Visiting Artist at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He received his M.F.A. in Theatre Design from New York University and has taught at Stony
CREATIVE TEAM
Brook University and the University of Rochester. He is currently Lighting Supervisor of the Kravis Performance Studio at the Museum of Modern Art.
Cody Spencer (Sound Designer) Broadway: The Last Five Years, Romeo and Juliet, Job, The Outsiders (Tony Award). Co-Design Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Here Lies Love, The Pee-wee Herman Show. Off-Broadway: Energy Music Curfew Hour, Broadway Bounty Hunter and Joan of Arc: Into the Fire Off-Broadway Co-Design: Trevor, Here Lies Love (Lortel Award). Regional: David Byrne’s Theater of the Mind, May We All.
Stephen Stivo Arnoczy (Projections Designer) is a video designer from Queens & Otsego County, N.Y. Select work includes: Real Women Have Curves (Broadway, as Animator), 3 Summers of Lincoln (La Jolla Playhouse, as Associate), Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Broadway, as Associate), Tick Tick Boom (The Cape Playhouse), Discoshow (The Linq Hotel, Las Vegas, as Assoc.), Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail (NYBG, as programmer), Cowboy Bob (The Alley Theatre), Bhangra Nation (Birmingham Rep, UK, as Assoc.), The Rose Tattoo (Broadway, as Assoc.), Be More Chill (Broadway, as Asst.), The Band’s Visit (International Tour, as Assoc.). N.Y.U. Tisch. http://stivo.video
Miriam Hyfler (Stage Manager) Select credits: Sense and Sensibility, King James (Syracuse Stage); Sump’n like Wings, Partnership, Becomes a Woman, The Rat Trap, Chains (Mint Theater); White Christmas, In the Heights, Rock of Ages, Beautiful (the Gateway Playhouse); hang, Time Stands Still (Shakespeare & Company); Shanghai Sonatas (Master Players Concert Series); On Blueberry Hill, Maz and Bricks (Origin Theatre/Fishamble); Three Small Irish Masterpieces, It’s a Wonderful Life, Woman and Scarecrow (Irish Rep); author Directing author (La Mama); Richard III, Henry V (New York Classical Theatre); Cymbeline, Capsule 33 (Barrow Street Theater); and several seasons with The Play Company, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Pan Asian Rep, and New Century Theatre. Love to @orangefreddyg.
Rebecca Lord-Surratt (Associate Scenic Designer) is a Brooklyn based set designer working in theater, film, and television. Recent film projects include A Complete Unknown and Deliver Me From Nowhere (Searchlight Pictures). Her work for theater has been seen at 59e59, Northern Stage, Soho Playhouse, Theater Row, SOPAC, Ensemble Studio Theater, and as an Associate at Lincoln Center Theater, BAM, Chicago Shakespeare, Greek National Opera, The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Two River Theater, Second Stage, Rattlestick, and New York Theater Workshop among others. Art Direction for television includes Billions (Showtime), City on Fire (Apple TV), and TRL (MTV). B.F.A., Syracuse University, and M.F.A., N.Y.U. Member of USA 829 and the collective Coördinated Artists.
CREATIVE TEAM
Ricky Lurie (Associate Costume Designer): Broadway: Harmony (co-design), Associate Designer: SUNSET BLVD, Oh, Mary!, Anastasia, Is This a Room, Dana H, Ain’t No Mo, A Doll’s House. Theme parks, regional theaters and dance companies including: Sea World, Sesame Place, American Dance Machine 21, City Center Encores!, A.R.T., Papermill, George Street Playhouse, The Old Globe, Cortland Rep, Geva Theater, The Hartford Stage Company, The Court, The Alliance, Kansas City Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Charlotte Ballet, American Ballet Theatre. www.RickyLurieDesigns.com
Bass/Valle Casting (Casting) formerly Harriet Bass Casting, is a leading N.Y.C. boutique casting office. To know more about their upcoming projects and casting philosophy please visit www.bassvallecasting.com. Harriet Bass has cast for ABC/TV, Fox Television Studios, The Public Theatre: NEW WORK NOW, The Minetta Lane Theatre, The Women’s Project, La MaMa E.T.C., New York Women in Film and Television, and The Jewish Repertory Theatre. She has cast the last three of the late August Wilson’s ten part play series: the original Radio Golf, Broadway Gem of the Ocean, and off-Broadway Jitney. Harriet is also a leading educator in audition technique, side and monologue coaching, and the business of acting. She has taught at the nation’s top universities and professional training programs. Gama Valle is a director, playwright, screenwriter, children’s book author, and casting director. His casting credits include: The American Tradition, The Great Novel, Split Second, I Wanna Fuck Like Romeo and Juliet, among others. He is a proud member of New Light Theatre Ensemble and the recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Repertorio Español. Gama received the First Prize in playwriting from Puerto Rico’s Institute of Culture for his play Queishd&Dilit. Their regional casting credits include: Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Trinity Rep, San Jose Rep, Geva, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Merrimack Rep, Longwharf Theatre, Alliance Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Kansas City Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Virginia Stage Company, Dallas Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Portland Center Stage, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Feature films credits include: Pushing Hands directed by Ang Lee, Underheat, starring Lee Grant, First We Take Manhattan, produced by Golden Harvest Inc., and Graves End, directed by Sal Stabile.
JULIE LUTZ WORLD PREMIERE PLAYWRIGHT
Rogelio Martinez (he/his) is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been workshopped and produced in theaters across the country and abroad. His play, Born In East Berlin, was first performed at the Stasi Museum, Berlin, in both English and German and then premiered at San Francisco Playhouse in February 2020. More recently, Martinez worked on The Seven Deadly Sins project for Miami New Drama. It was the largest theatrical production allowed by Equity during the pandemic. It won the Drama League Award - Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater. In 2021, Martinez worked on a new television project for Tom Fontana, based on the book Year of Dangerous Days. His play Blind Date was produced at the Goodman Theatre under the direction of Tony-nominee Robert Falls, with Tony Award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan playing the role of Nancy Reagan, and was awarded an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Martinez is a recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, and a Mid-Career Fellowship at the Lark Theater Company. His work has been workshopped and commissioned by various theaters across the country including the Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Atlantic Theater Company, Arden Theater, Asolo Repertory, and Ojai Theater Company, and many more. Martinez’s plays include Illuminating Veronica, Arrivals and Departures, All Eyes and Ears, Blind Date, Born in East Berlin, and I Regret She’s Made of Sugar (Princess Grace Winner). He is an alumnus of New Dramatist and teaches undergraduate playwriting at N.Y.U. and graduate playwriting at Columbia University. Martinez is a co-producer on Billion Dollar Whale, created by David Henry Hwang and Anchuli Felicia King, based on the book by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope. His plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing. Martinez was born in Sancti-Spiritus, Cuba, and came to this country on the Mariel boatlift.
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Johanna McKeon is delighted to make her Syracuse Stage debut with this vital new American play. Broadway Associate credits include Swept Away, Funny Girl, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot, War Paint, Grey Gardens, and King Kong . Broadway National and International tours: Funny Girl, Hedwig, American Idiot, Rent. Directing credits include First Down (59E59); Henry V, Noura, Unseen, and Anonymous Biography (Old Globe); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Olney), Anne Washburn’s
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I Have Loved Strangers (premiere, Clubbed Thumb); The Comedy of Errors, Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown); Tokio Confidential (Atlantic); Mona Mansour’s We Swim We Talk We Go to War, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse); Sidewalk Echoes by Rogelio Martinez (En Garde Arts); Born in East Berlin by Rogelio Martinez (Stasi Museum, Berlin); A Hatful of Rain (ITS Festival Warsaw); Semi- Permanent (New York International Fringe Festival Outstanding Solo Show); The Importance of Being Earnest (Bard); Functional Drunk, Fiesta Cabana, The Tanks Break (Ontological-Hysteric Theater). Her independent feature My Address is Still Walton Have You Forgotten It? screened at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and her debut feature Auld Lang Syne received the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Indie Street Film Festival. She spent a year working as Regie Praktikant at the Schaubuehne and Maxim Gorki Theaters in Berlin and she has worked extensively with Toho Theatrical in Tokyo, Japan. Johanna is the recipient of Drama League, Boris Sagal, and Fulbright Fellowships. M.F.A. – U.T. Austin.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Robert Hupp is in his ninth season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage. He recently directed Dial M for Murder, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, Our Town, The Play That Goes Wrong, Eureka Day, Annapurna, Talley’s Folly, Amadeus, Noises Off, Next to Normal, and The Three Musketeers for Stage. Prior to coming to Central New York, Robert spent seventeen seasons as the producing artistic director of Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. He directed over 30 productions for Arkansas Rep ranging from Hamlet to Les Miserables to The Grapes of Wrath. In New York City, Robert directed the American premieres of Glyn Maxwell’s The Lifeblood and Wolfpit for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. He also served for nine seasons as the artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Jean Cocteau Repertory. At the Cocteau, Robert’s directing credits include works by Buchner, Wilder, Cocteau, Shaw, Wedekind and the premieres of the Bentley/Milhaud version of Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy, and Eduardo de Filippo’s Napoli Millionaria. He has held faculty positions at Pennsylvania’s Dickinson College and, in Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Hendrix College. Robert served as vice president of the Board of Directors of the Theatre Communications Group and has served on funding panels for the New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, the Theatre Communications Group, the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and the
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New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. While in Arkansas, Robert was named both Non-Profit Executive of the Year by the Arkansas Business Publishing Group, and Individual Artist of the Year by the Arkansas Arts Council. He and his wife Clea ride herd over a blended family of five children, one dog, and two cats.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Carly DiFulvio Allen is thrilled to be joining Syracuse Stage this season. Originally from Rochester, N.Y., she is returning to the region after a twenty-year career on Broadway. Most recently at Disney Theatrical Group, she was the Associate General Manager for the worldwide productions of Aladdin (Broadway, First and Second North American Tours, West End, U.K. Tour, Australia, Germany, Japan, Mexico City, the Netherlands, and South Korea) and Beauty and the Beast (upcoming North American Tour, U.K. Tour, Australia, Japan and China at the Shanghai Disney Resort). Prior to her time at Disney, she was the Company Manager for Roundabout Theatre Company at the Todd Haimes Theatre (formerly the American Airlines Theatre) for twenty-five Broadway productions. Favorites include Violet with Sutton Foster, On the Twentieth Century with Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher, Noises Off with Andrea Martin, and the original Broadway production of The 39 Steps. She has a Theatre Arts Management and Integrated Marketing Communications degree from Ithaca College and has taught theatre management at Pace University. While at Disney, she served on the advisory committee for ENSEMBLE, an employee-led network with the goal of fostering and celebrating an inclusive culture, and was the founding member and co-chair for a parents and caregivers sub-committee. She is forever grateful for the support of her parents, Jeff and Triscilla, and her husband Mike Allen. Carly’s most important role is mom to 5-year-old Arthur and 2-year-old Eloise.
DIRECTOR/FESTIVAL CURATOR/ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Melissa Crespo (she/her/hers) is a multi-hyphenate theatermaker based in N.Y.C. She has made a career of developing new plays and musicals. Recent world premiere credits include: O.K.! by Christin Eve Cato (INTAR), Reggie Hoops by Kristoffer Diaz (Profile Theater), and Bees and Honey by Guadalís del Carmen (MCC Theater). Next season, she will direct two world premieres: Relentless by Rae Binstock (Syracuse Stage) and The Woman Question by Suli Holum (People’s Light). As a playwright, her
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play Egress co-written with Sarah Saltwick, had a world premiere at Amphibian Stage and won the Roe Green Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting at Cleveland Play House. Fellowships and residencies include: Time Warner Fellow (WP Theatre), Usual Suspect (NYTW), The Director’s Project (Drama League), Van Lier Directing Fellow (Second Stage Theatre), and the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena Stage). Melissa received her M.F.A. in directing from The New School for Drama. https://www.melissacrespo.com/
RESIDENT PLAYWRIGHT
Kyle Bass, Resident Playwright at Syracuse Stage and curator of Poetry & Play, is the author of Toliver & Wakeman, which premiered at Franklin Stage Company, Tender Rain, which premiered at Syracuse Stage, Salt City Blues, which received its first production at Syracuse Stage, and Possessing Harriet, published and licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide, which premiered at Syracuse Stage, and has been produced at Franklin Stage Company, East Lynne Theater Company, and HartBeat Ensemble. Citizen James, or The Young Man Without a Country, about a young James Baldwin, streamed nationally and has been optioned for a featurelength film. With Ping Chong, he is the co-author of Cry for Peace: Voices from the Congo, which premiered at Syracuse Stage and was produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre. A descendant of African people enslaved in colonial New England and in the American South, Kyle lives and writes in central upstate New York where his family has lived free and owned land for 226 years. Kyle is Associate Professor of Theater at Colgate University.
WHO WE ARE
Syracuse Stage is the non-profit professional theatre company in residence at Syracuse University. We are nationally recognized for creating stimulating theatrical work that engages Central New York, and for our significant contribution to the artistic life of Syracuse University, where we are a vital partner in achieving the educational mission of the University’s Department of Drama.
OUR MISSION
Syracuse Stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experience.
OUR VISION
Reimagining what's possible for regional theatre–through active inclusion, innovative outreach, and bold productions–Syracuse Stage shapes the culture and social vitality of Central New York, enriches the Syracuse University student experience, and fosters change in ourselves, our communities, and our world.
OUR CORE VALUES
People - Actively including diverse individuals, communities, ideas, and perspectives. Passion - Commitment to integrity, excellence, and enthusiasm in our work.
Curiosity - Fostering an innovative and adaptive environment that elicits wonder.
IN THE COMMUNITY
Stage has collaborated with a myriad of institutions in the Syracuse area. Community partners include 100 Black Men of Syracuse, AccessCNY, ARC of Onondaga, ARISE, ArtRage, CNY Reads, Interfaith Works of Central New York, La Casita, McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center, Onondaga Historical Association, Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, SUNY Upstate Medical University, the VA Medical Center, and Vera House. Additionally, the educational department collaborates with many CNY schools.
ANTI-RACISM PLEDGE
Syracuse Stage stands firmly against racism and discrimination. We pledge to stand with under-represented and oppressed communities and to advance antiracism in all aspects of our work, including the outward facing, public dimension of our creative endeavors and the less visible internal practices of the organization.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Syracuse Stage respectfully acknowledges the Onondaga Nation, Firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee, the Indigenous people on whose ancestral lands we now stand.
ABOUT SYRACUSE STAGE
Originally constructed as the Regent Movie House in 1914, the physical space of Syracuse Stage has seen many films, musicians, actors, and artists pass through its doors over the course of the past century. The Syracuse Stage that exists today is a non-for-profit professional theatre company founded in 1974, and a longstanding League of Resident Theatres (LORT) member. Since its inception, Stage has produced over 350 shows, both plays and musicals, within its walls. Now, Stage produces six to seven shows per season, while also offering educational programs to students, various pre- and post-show events, and fundraising events each year. Stage is Central New York’s only LORT theatre and one of the largest performing arts organizations in the area. Stage has a strong commitment to giving the community access to a range of high-quality productions; it is equally committed to bringing in actors, designers, and directors who are among the leading theatre professionals, both locally and across the nation.
CHAIR
SYRACUSE STAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Richard Driscoll
Senior Vice President Commercial Banking Division NBT Bank
PRESIDENT
Herman R. Frazier*
Senior Deputy Athletics Director Syracuse University
PAST CHAIR/VICE CHAIR
Rocco Mangano
Partner Mangano Law Office, PLLC
TREASURER
Brett Padgett*
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Syracuse University
SECRETARY
Maria Lesinski
Attorney Newman and Lickstein
AT-LARGE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER
Phil Turner
Pastor Bethany Baptist Church
Carly DiFulvio Allen** Managing Director Syracuse Stage
Janet Audunson
Assistant General Counsel National Grid
George S. Bain Freelance Editor and Writer
Barbara Beckos Retired - Syracuse Stage
Nancy Byrne Community Volunteer
Jessica Cain Reporter WRVO
Dr. Ruth Chen* Professor of Practice
Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science
Robin Curtis
NYS Lic. RE Asso. Broker Hunt Real Estate ERA
Denise Dyce*
Associate Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations
Syracuse University
Colleen A. Gaetano
Retired- Vice President Global Education & Artistry
Estée Lauder Companies, NYC
Helene Gold
Private Voice & Piano Instructor
Jacki Goldberg Community Volunteer
Nancy Green
Managing Member
Edward S. Green & Associates
Larry Harris Retired - EVP and CFO Saab, Inc.
Robert Hupp**
Artistic Director
Syracuse Stage
Eric Jackson
Co-Founder and CEO
Black Cub Productions
Ken Jackson
Publisher and Editor
Urban CNY (The Constitution) (July 2024 - April 2025)
Cydney Johnson
Deputy County Executive for Physical Services Onondaga County
Rebecca Karpoff*
Professor of Practice, Musical Theater/Coordinator of Vocal Instruction, Musical Theater Syracuse University Department of Drama
Kathy Kelly Retired - Health Educator, PNP
Larry Leatherman
Retired - Bristol-Myers Squibb, MOST
Dan Lent
Commercial Loan Officer AmeriCU Credit Union
Rob Lentz
EVP of Enterprise Operations Zeta Global
Anthony Malavenda Retired - Duke’s Root Control
Julia Martin Partner
Bousquet Holstein
Suzanne McAuliffe Retired - Educator
Rod McDonald Bond, Schoeneck & King
Molly Mulvihill
Sr. Relationship Manager
Global Commercial Banking Bank of America
Fran Nichols Retired - Mower, Inc.
YiWei Qi
Co-Founder and CEO AccuGPS LLC
Dr. Henry Roane
Executive Director and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry Upstate Golisano Center for Special Needs
Molly Ryan Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP
Robert Sarason Retired - Lawyer, Organizer, Fundraiser
Cora Thomas
Radio Host and Office Manager, WAER
Michael S. Tick*
Dean, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Syracuse University
Dr. Amy Tucker
Chief Medical Officer SUNY Upstate Medical University
Andrea Waldman
Operations and Development Coordinator
Make A Wish Foundation of Central New York
Maryam Wasmund
Chief Financial Officer Filtertech Inc.
Ralph Zito** Chair
Syracuse University Department of Drama
*University Trustee **Ex-Officio
THE HELLO GIRLS
September 10 – 28, 2025
Music and lyrics by Peter Mills
Book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel
Directed by Cara Reichel | Co-produced with Michael Cassel Group, Broadway & Beyond Theatricals, and Chief Operator
A heroic new musical about connection in a time of conflict.
THE 39 STEPS
October 22 – November 9, 2025
Adapted by Patrick Barlow | From the novel by John Buchan | From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock | Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited | And an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon | Directed by Benjamin Hanna | Co-produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre
A Hitchcock spoof with hair-raising hijinks.
A CHRISTMAS STORY
November 25 – December 28, 2025
By Philip Grecian | Based on the motion picture A Christmas Story written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, and Bob Clark and In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd | Directed by Robert Hupp
A triple-dog-dare of a show.
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RELENTLESS
February 4 – 22, 2026
WORLD PREMIERE
By Rae Binstock | Directed by Melissa Crespo | Co-produced with Sing Out, Louise! Productions
A knockout new play about loyalty and legacy.
JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE
March 11 – 29, 2026
By August Wilson | Directed by Timothy Douglas | Co-produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre
August Wilson’s heartbreaking and mystical masterpiece.
DISNEY’S FROZEN THE BROADWAY
MUSICAL
May 13 – June 21, 2026
CENTRAL NEW YORK PREMIERE
Music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez | Book by Jennifer Lee Based on the Disney film written by Jennifer Lee and directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee | Originally produced on Broadway by Disney Theatrical Productions | Directed by Amy Anders Corcoran | Music Direction by Brian Cimmet | Choreographed by Marjorie Failoni | Co-produced with the Syracuse University Department of Drama
Sisterhood, stirring songs, and one magical snowman.