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MARKETING PATRON SERVICES Director of Marketing: Meghan Balcom Director of Patron Experience: Nikki Cooper Director of Public Relations: Tom Miller Subscriptions Manager: Anne Fulper Manager of Institutional Marketing: Performance Supervisors: Richard Cayea, Megan Johnston Shackney Jeffrey Freuler, Heather Kayan, Debra Emily Mann Michael S. Rosenberg Manager of Presented Events Marketing: Lemeshow, Rebecca Mariman, Jay Pekala, Artistic Director/Resident Playwright Managing Director Andrea Cuevas Melissa Reich presents Digital Media Strategist: Edward Hartman III Patron Services Staff: Cathy Falk, Matthew Data Analytics Manager: Corriane Oster Mariman, Zoe Morrison, Katie Orgen, Charles Social Media Coordinator: Kimberly Ilkowski Phox, Cindy Weinstein Graphic Designer: Carolina Vargas- Special Events & Groups Sales Manager: Gutierrez Christine Murray THE Marketing Assistant: Kimberly Ortiz House Services Administrator: Casandra Bare DEVELOPMENT House Managers: Stephen Gliboff, Susan Director of Development: Lindsey Forden Kamp, Adriana Sinicropi, Melissa Goyne Assistant House Managers: Mika Godbole, MIGRATION Director of Individual Giving: Brannan Osburn Berman Michael Farr, Deena Miller, Evan Williamson, Director of Corporate Partnerships: Beth Inkyung Yi Heaney Front of House Staff: Brandon Bacorn, Individual Giving Manager: Danielle Biggs Mackenzie Bartlet, Joan Baxter, Gwen Christiana, Lea Florentine, Kathy PLAYS Development Operations Manager: Johannessen, Tony Loretti, Jerry Nixon, Gail Campanella Early Decision Donor Benefits Associate: Dana Lopatin Abishy Pandita, Val Reicheg, Joe Rizzo, Development Assistant: Kelsey Mullholland Michelle Sage, Kelly Spencer, Deanna By Adam Gwon Weber, Kassandra Wilson ADMINISTRATION Custodians: James Maddalon, Charles Quay, Solomon’s Pools General Manager: Mindy Richardson Rondell Robinson By Heather Raffo Associate General Manager: Morgan M. Manfredi The Monkey with the Green Tail: Company Manager: Kat Gavornik Company Management Apprentice: A Migration Story Travon White-Sams By Karen Zacarías Director of Finance: Natalia Armoza Finance and Human Resources Assistant: The Family Austin Brecht By Mfoniso Udofia Director of Information Technology: Charlotte Hussey Museum Tessitura Applications Specialist: Jessica By Martyna Majok Bonanno This event is part of the year-long Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, "Global Migration: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Dialogue." Co-sponsors for this event include Lewis Center for the Arts, Humanities Council, Princeton Art Museum, and Directed By Elena Araoz University Center for Human Values.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the The Migration Plays were commissioned in partnership with the Princeton Institute National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, recommendations, or conclusions expressed in this program do for International and Regional Studies Migration Lab: People and Cultures Across not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Borders. The public presentation of The Migration Plays is part of the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar, Global Migration: The Humanities and Social Sciences in Dialogue. April 14, 2019 | 2:00 pm Matthews Theatre

The Migration Plays McCarter Staff

ENSEMBLE Emily Mann Michael S. Rosenberg W.W. Lockwood, Jr. Artistic Director Managing Director Special Programming

Jelani Alladin* Rodd Farhadi Resident Playwright Director

Hend Ayoub* Vivia Font* Afi Bijou* Diana Huey* ARTISTIC PRODUCTION Resident Producer: Debbie Bisno Darlesia Cearcy* Natasja Naarendorp Director of Production: Dixie Uffelman Artistic Line Producer: Stephanie Rolland Production Coordinator: Karl Josef Co* Najla Said* Literary Manager: Anna Morton Kasey Ostopchuck Jessica Frances Dukes* Mirirai Sithole* Associate Producer: Emily Zetterberg Production Associate:

Executive Assistant to the Artistic and Jeanne-Marie Procaccini Stage Manager……………………………………………...... Samantha Flint* Managing Directors: Manda Bliss Production Management Apprentice: Composer/ Music Director………………..…………….……..Vince di Mura Commissioned Artists: Rachel Bonds, Adam Savannah Deal Dramaturg...... ….....Anna Morton Gwon, Naomi Iizuka, Martyna Majok, Denis Technical Director: Alex Bergeron Casting……………………………………………………….Telsey + Company O’Hare, Lisa Peterson, Heather Raffo, Sarah Assistant Technical Director: Nora Hyland Ruhl, Mfoniso Udofia, Karen Zacarías Master Carpenter: Jill Shorrock Carpenters: Robb Geores, Brandon Sewall Literary Management Apprentice: *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association, Charge Scenic Artist: Carrie Ballenger the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Liam Gibbs Associate Charge Artist: Susan DeConcini Directing/Producing Apprentices: Prop Master: Michele E. Sammarco Cory James Dunn, Shawna M James Prop Carpenter: Grant Larouere Prop Shopper: Crystal Coddington Director of Creative Development and Prop Runner: Kristina Madsen The Migration Plays Staff Strategy: Erica Nagel Prop Artisan: Hannah Shoemaker Artistic Engagement Manager: Paula Alekson Costume Manager: Cynthia Thom Drapers: Erika A.W. Toney, Denise Wagner Director of Creative Development & Strategy…………………....Erica Nagel Curriculum and Instruction Manager: First Hands: Cody Lorich, Sarah Romagnoli LAB Producer…………………………………………………...Emily Zetterberg Lily Junker Wardrobe Supervisor: Christine Petty Literary Manager……………………………………………………Anna Morton Education Projects Manager: Mary Gragen Hair & Makeup Supervisor: Carissa Education and Artistic Administrator: Reading Coordinator……………………………………………..Gabi Boettner Thorlakson Jennifer Wewers-Ayres Costume Intern: Sherry Wu Reading Assistants…………………………...Cory James Dunn & Liam Gibbs Education Associate: Alexandra LaTorre Stage Supervisor: Stephen Howe Teaching Artists: William Addis, Dustin Master Electrician: Paul Kilsdonk Ballard, Kate Brennan, Erica Bradshaw, Electricians: Amber Faulhaber, Michael About the McCarter LAB Jacque Carnahan, Jillian Carucci, Toccarra Hochman Cash, Jason Cohen, Heleya de Barros, Sound Engineers: Joshua Friedman, Chris Wendy Feaver, Melissa Firlit, Katherine Woolley Stage Operations Manager: Meredith Fritz, Kory Gellar, Melissa Gordon, Aliyah The McCarter LAB is a year-round creative incubator that provides artistic Schuler and financial support to artists at all stages of their careers. LAB Habib, Nathan James, Morgan M. Stage Carpenter: Davis Caramanico programming allows McCarter to take artistic risks in the interest of Manfredi, Joseph McGranaghan, Julia Stage Technicians: David M. Cain, Jennifer identifying and nurturing promising talent and new work for our stages. Moss, Nicholas Pine, Bess Ploener, Brandon Lucero Consisting of readings, workshops, commissions, the annual Spotlight and Rubin, Dave Seamon, Allison Siko, Rebecca Stage Hands: Brit Bannon, Jeffrey Branin, the Sallie B. Goodman Artist Retreat, LAB events are tailored to the needs Simon, Emily Whitaker, David White James Lewis, Michelle Poulaille of individual artists and many programs are open to the public, providing Education Teaching Artist Apprentice: Resident Production Stage Manager: audiences with an exclusive window in the creative process. Alexandra Daniels Cheryl Mintz Stage Management Apprentice: Engagement Apprentice: Gabrielle Boettner Alexandra Kostis Education Stage Management Apprentice: Tyler Osgood Learn More Biographies

Adam Gwon (Playwright & Composer, Early Decision) is a composer and Upcoming Princeton University PIIRS Migration Lab Public Events lyricist whose musicals have enjoyed more than 200 productions worldwide. Off- Broadway: Ordinary Days (Roundabout Theatre), Old Jews Telling Jokes Wednesday April 24, 2019 (Westside Theatre); Regional: String (Village Theatre), Cake Off (Signature Sounds of Migration: Listening to Filipino Caregivers in America Theatre, Helen Hayes Award nomination), Cloudlands (South Coast Repertory), James Gabrillo, Princeton University The Boy Detective Fails (Signature Theatre), Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Lyric Theatre 4:30pm - 6:00pm | A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building of Oklahoma); West End: Ordinary Days (Trafalgar Studios). Adam’s songs have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and Monday April 29, 2019 more, by such luminaries as Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, and Brian d’Arcy The Real Reason for Refugees James. Honors include the Kleban Award, Fred Ebb Award, Richard Rodgers Omar Alshogre and Mouaz Moustafa Award, Loewe Award, Second Stage Theatre’s Donna Perret Rosen Award, 4:30pm - 6:00pm | A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building Weston Playhouse New Musical Award, ASCAP Harold Adamson Award, and the MAC John Wallowitch Award. Recordings include: Ordinary Days (Ghostlight Wednesday May 1, 2019 Records), Audra McDonald’s Go Back Home (Nonesuch), The Essential Liz Ecologies of Migrant Care in the Americas: Documenting Movements, Callaway (Working Girl Records), Over the Moon: The Broadway Lullaby Album. Voices and Struggles Across Borders Adam has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Dramatists Guild.

Pablo Dominguez, Princeton University; Marcial Godoy-Anativia, NYU; Heather Raffo (Playwright, Solomon’s Pools†) is an award-winning playwright Diana Taylor, NYU and actress whose work has been seen off Broadway, off West End, in regional 4:30pm - 6:00pm | A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building theater and in film. She is the author and solo performer of the play 9 Parts of

Desire (Lucille Lortel award, Blackburn, Drama League, OCC, Helen Hayes Tuesday May 7, 2019 nominations), which The New Yorker called “an example of how art can remake Fung Spring Public Seminar | The “Right to Have Rights” and the the world”. 9 Parts of Desire has been performed across America and Transnational Movement of Peoples internationally for over a decade with current productions in Greece, Hungary Seyla Benhabib, Yale University and India. Raffo’s newest play, NOURA (Weissberger Award, Helen Hayes 4:30pm - 6:00pm | A71 Louis A. Simpson International Building nomination) had its world premiere at the Shakespeare Theater before moving to Abu Dhabi and NYC. It can next be seen in multiple regional theaters in their Thursday May 9 & Friday May 10, 2019 2019/2020 season. Her libretto for the opera FALLUJAH, developed as part of Ethics and Migration: After the Backlash Kennedy Center’s International Theater Festival, premiered at Long Beach Joseph Carens, Professor, University of Toronto; Michael Walzer, Professor Opera in 2016 then moved to New York City Opera. A film of the opera aired on Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton PBS accompanied by a documentary titled Fallujah: Art, Healing and PTSD.

4:30pm - 6:00pm | Friend Center 101 † Solomon’s Pools is inspired by the work of architects Sandy Hilal and Special Exhibit at Princeton University Art Museum Alessandro Petti and their exploration of Permanent Temporariness. Through July 7, 2019 Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States Karen Zacarías (Playwright, The Monkey with the Green Tail: A Migration Milagros en la frontera: Retablos de migrantes mexicanos a los Estados Unidos Story) was recently hailed as one of the most produced playwrights in the US. Her award-winning plays include Destiny of Desire, Native Gardens, The Book Retablos are thank-you notes to the heavens to consecrate a miraculous event. Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, the The votives on view were offered by Mexican migrants and their families to adaptations of Just Like Us, Into the Beautiful North, Ella Enchanted, and How commemorate the dangers of crossing the border and living in the United the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. She is the author of ten renowned TYA States. musicals and the librettist of several Ballets. She is one of the inaugural resident

playwrights at Arena Stage, a core founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons, and a founder of Young Playwrights’ Theater. Born in Mexico, Karen resides in Washington DC with her husband and three children. For more information: www.karenzacarias.com.

Mfoniso Udofia (Playwright, The Family) a first-generation Nigerian-American Vince di Mura (Composer/ Music Director) is a composer, arranger, jazz storyteller and educator, attended Wellesley College, obtained her MFA from pianist and musical director; appearing on concert stages and theatres the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) and, while at ACT, co-pioneered The throughout North America, Canada, Europe and Latin America. He currently Nia Project, which provided artistic outlets for youth residing in serves as the Resident Musical Director and Composer for the Lewis Center of Bayview/Huntspoint. Productions of her plays Sojourners, runboyrun, and Her the Arts at Princeton University. He has conducted theatre seasons in every Portmanteau have been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights region of the United States. Best known for his arrangements of "My Way: A Realm, Magic Theater, National Black Theatre, Strand Theater Company, and Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra," “Simply Simone” and “I Left My Heart: Boston Court. She’s the recipient of the 2017 Helen Merrill Playwright Award, A Tribute to the Music of Tony Bennett” (with over 800 productions nationally), the 2017-18 McKnight National Residency and Commission at Playwrights’ Vince has musical directed productions of these shows from Tampa to Los Center and is a member of New Dramatists. Mfoniso’s currently commissioned Angeles. Vince has fulfilled numerous compositional commissions and is the by Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), Hartford Stage, Denver Center, ACT, author and curator of “A Conversation with the Blues:” A fourteen-part web and South Coast Repertory. Her plays have been developed by Manhattan instructional series on improvisation through the Blues. He holds fellowships Theatre Club, ACT, McCarter Theatre, OSF, New Dramatists, PCS’s JAW from the William Goldman Foundation, Temple University, Meet the Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, The OCC, Hedgebrook, Sundance Composer, CEPAC, the Union County Foundation, the New Jersey State Theatre Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Page 73, New Black Fest, Rising Circle and Council on the Arts, the Puffin Cultural Forum and the Mid-Atlantic Arts more. Follow her at @mfudofia or visit www.mfonisoudofia.com. Foundation. No stranger to the recording studio, Vince has six CDs on the market, all of which are available at CDBaby.com and any number of internet Martyna Majok (Playwright, Museum) was born in Bytom, Poland and raised outlets. in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cost of Living (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club). Other plays include Sanctuary City (upcoming: New York Theatre Workshop), Special Thanks Queens (LCT/ Lincoln Center, La Jolla Playhouse), and Ironbound (Steppenwolf, Round House, WP/Rattlestick, Geffen Playhouse, and other Alícia Adserà Simon Gikandi theatres in America and abroad.) Awards include The Lucille Lortel for Belinda Azamati Lebene Ledi Outstanding New Play, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Sandra L. Bermann Beth Lew-Williams The Lanford Wilson Prize, Lilly Award's Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Caitlin Charos Peter Makhlouf Emerging Playwright Award, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, Juliana Dweck Veronica White Jean Kennedy Smith Award, David Calicchio Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwright, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream. MFA, Yale School of Drama, Juilliard; BA, University of Chicago. Alumna of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood and WP Lab. Learn More Martyna was the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at The Lark and is a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Learn more about The Migration Plays and McCarter Theatre Center by visiting us on the web at: https://www.mccarter.org/. Elena Araoz (Director) Upcoming: world premiere Original Sound (Cherry Lane), world premiere opera I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams (White Learn more about PIIRS and their upcoming events by visiting: Snake Productions at The Paramount, Boston), New York premiere Fur (New http://piirs.princeton.edu/. York Theatre Workshop Next Door/ Boundless Theatre), workshop translation All’s Well That Ends Well (Play On/ Classic Stage Company). Recent NYC The presentation of The Migration Plays will be followed by productions: Mac Wellman’s Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds (New a panel discussion featuring: York Theatre Workshop Next Door), Kidnap Road (La MaMa), Alligator (New Georges/Sol Project), Warren Leight’s Union Square Incident (24 Hour Plays on Dr. Sandra L. Bermann, Cotsen Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Broadway), Architecture of Becoming (Women’s Project). With NYC-based Comparative Literature, and Head of Whitman College Boundless Theatre: Conduct of Life, Mud and Prospect. Regionally: In Between Dr. Jill S. Dolan, Dean of the College (Walnut Street), Sweat (People’s Light), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Festival Dr. Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor and Chair of English St. Louis), Azaan (Oregon Symphony). Internationally: Two Arms and a Noise Dr. Brian Herrera, Associate Professor of Theater (Bucharest), The Power (Beijing), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Prague). Opera: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams, Assistant Professor of History; Philip and Beulah Rollins La traviata (New York City Opera/BAM), Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera North), Bicentennial Preceptor Falstaff (Brooklyn Philharmonic/BAM), Latin Lovers (Glimmerglass). Faculty: Emily Mann, Artistic Director/Resident Playwright, McCarter Theatre Center Princeton University. www.elenaaraoz.com. Mfoniso Udofia (Playwright, The Family) a first-generation Nigerian-American Vince di Mura (Composer/ Music Director) is a composer, arranger, jazz storyteller and educator, attended Wellesley College, obtained her MFA from pianist and musical director; appearing on concert stages and theatres the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) and, while at ACT, co-pioneered The throughout North America, Canada, Europe and Latin America. He currently Nia Project, which provided artistic outlets for youth residing in serves as the Resident Musical Director and Composer for the Lewis Center of Bayview/Huntspoint. Productions of her plays Sojourners, runboyrun, and Her the Arts at Princeton University. He has conducted theatre seasons in every Portmanteau have been seen at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights region of the United States. Best known for his arrangements of "My Way: A Realm, Magic Theater, National Black Theatre, Strand Theater Company, and Tribute to the Music of Frank Sinatra," “Simply Simone” and “I Left My Heart: Boston Court. She’s the recipient of the 2017 Helen Merrill Playwright Award, A Tribute to the Music of Tony Bennett” (with over 800 productions nationally), the 2017-18 McKnight National Residency and Commission at Playwrights’ Vince has musical directed productions of these shows from Tampa to Los Center and is a member of New Dramatists. Mfoniso’s currently commissioned Angeles. Vince has fulfilled numerous compositional commissions and is the by Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), Hartford Stage, Denver Center, ACT, author and curator of “A Conversation with the Blues:” A fourteen-part web and South Coast Repertory. Her plays have been developed by Manhattan instructional series on improvisation through the Blues. He holds fellowships Theatre Club, ACT, McCarter Theatre, OSF, New Dramatists, PCS’s JAW from the William Goldman Foundation, Temple University, Meet the Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, The OCC, Hedgebrook, Sundance Composer, CEPAC, the Union County Foundation, the New Jersey State Theatre Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Page 73, New Black Fest, Rising Circle and Council on the Arts, the Puffin Cultural Forum and the Mid-Atlantic Arts more. Follow her at @mfudofia or visit www.mfonisoudofia.com. Foundation. No stranger to the recording studio, Vince has six CDs on the market, all of which are available at CDBaby.com and any number of internet Martyna Majok (Playwright, Museum) was born in Bytom, Poland and raised outlets. in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cost of Living (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club). Other plays include Sanctuary City (upcoming: New York Theatre Workshop), Special Thanks Queens (LCT/ Lincoln Center, La Jolla Playhouse), and Ironbound (Steppenwolf, Round House, WP/Rattlestick, Geffen Playhouse, and other Alícia Adserà Simon Gikandi theatres in America and abroad.) Awards include The Lucille Lortel for Belinda Azamati Lebene Ledi Outstanding New Play, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Sandra L. Bermann Beth Lew-Williams The Lanford Wilson Prize, Lilly Award's Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Caitlin Charos Peter Makhlouf Emerging Playwright Award, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, Juliana Dweck Veronica White Jean Kennedy Smith Award, David Calicchio Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwright, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream. MFA, Yale School of Drama, Juilliard; BA, University of Chicago. Alumna of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood and WP Lab. Learn More Martyna was the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at The Lark and is a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Learn more about The Migration Plays and McCarter Theatre Center by visiting us on the web at: https://www.mccarter.org/. Elena Araoz (Director) Upcoming: world premiere Original Sound (Cherry Lane), world premiere opera I Am A Dreamer Who No Longer Dreams (White Learn more about PIIRS and their upcoming events by visiting: Snake Productions at The Paramount, Boston), New York premiere Fur (New http://piirs.princeton.edu/. York Theatre Workshop Next Door/ Boundless Theatre), workshop translation All’s Well That Ends Well (Play On/ Classic Stage Company). Recent NYC The presentation of The Migration Plays will be followed by productions: Mac Wellman’s Chronicle of the Madness of Small Worlds (New a panel discussion featuring: York Theatre Workshop Next Door), Kidnap Road (La MaMa), Alligator (New Georges/Sol Project), Warren Leight’s Union Square Incident (24 Hour Plays on Dr. Sandra L. Bermann, Cotsen Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Broadway), Architecture of Becoming (Women’s Project). With NYC-based Comparative Literature, and Head of Whitman College Boundless Theatre: Conduct of Life, Mud and Prospect. Regionally: In Between Dr. Jill S. Dolan, Dean of the College (Walnut Street), Sweat (People’s Light), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Festival Dr. Simon Gikandi, Robert Schirmer Professor and Chair of English St. Louis), Azaan (Oregon Symphony). Internationally: Two Arms and a Noise Dr. Brian Herrera, Associate Professor of Theater (Bucharest), The Power (Beijing), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Prague). Opera: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams, Assistant Professor of History; Philip and Beulah Rollins La traviata (New York City Opera/BAM), Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera North), Bicentennial Preceptor Falstaff (Brooklyn Philharmonic/BAM), Latin Lovers (Glimmerglass). Faculty: Emily Mann, Artistic Director/Resident Playwright, McCarter Theatre Center Princeton University. www.elenaaraoz.com. Learn More Biographies

The Migration Plays McCarter Staff

ENSEMBLE Emily Mann Michael S. Rosenberg W.W. Lockwood, Jr. Artistic Director Managing Director Special Programming

Jelani Alladin* Rodd Farhadi Resident Playwright Director