BUST
3W 2M

How does money change people? And how have we changed the way money works? These questions are at the core of this live performance that lays bare the myths, cost and accountability we face in the neocolonialism of the 21st century. Currently being developed at the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, it starts in the gold vaults of the Federal Reserve and travels through millennia of human history to examine our histories and relationships with debt, cash and wealth.
Co-created with Bryn Herdrich.

Penny Thoughts
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We all have complicated relationships with money. It plays a huge role in our lives, we pin our hopes and dreams on the dollar - and yet we are unwilling to talk about it. But how did this relationship begin? What happens if we go back to the source?
Penny Thoughts started off as a storytelling project, sharing participant's first memories of money accompanied by a hand-painted and uniquely designed penny. These memories were condensed and synthesized into a song and made into a short film. Penny Thoughts is a digital companion piece to BUST (Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab).
Co-conceived and produced by Bryn Herdrich, performed and composed by Catherine Brookman.

Lost Coast
4W 3M

In a coastal forest in northern California live Sheila, Pru, Angel, Gigi, Nara and Joon, isolated from mainstream society and together in this refuge. When a wildfire burns down a nearby town, Stephen joins the demimonde and their lives become entangled with issues that force some to leave, confront their fears, and sacrifice the little they have. This seven-protagonist play explores how this togetherness is the most radical form of compassion in the face of irrevocable change.

The Seekers
3W 3M

Ilhan is a Somali high school student living in Minneapolis on the verge of deportation when she is visited by figures from far-flung places: the Arctic, European fringes, and an African refugee camp. They draw her into an unseen and forgotten world that exists just beyond reality and appeal to her for the sanctuary of their souls. With the letter from immigration waiting for her on the table, Ilhan decides to negotiate for her freedom. A poetic drama on displacement, environment and freedom.

Dahlia
5W 3M

Dahlia Kim leaves Chicago after a fraud derails her professional and artistic life. Despite protests from her friend Ezra, she accepts a position at a community college in the Texas Panhandle to provide for her mother suffering from dementia, and her sister, in love with a racist marine. There, she falls in love with Rosa Ramirez, a Mexican-American rancher, tutors a troubled girl called Mandy, and learns the secret of the girl’s grieving father. Against the backdrop of vast blue sky and rusty canyons, Dahlia rediscovers what brings meaning to her life.

Cecilies
5 W/M

Cecily lives her life dictated by her schedule, overflowing with commitments, menial tasks, deadlines and promises to be kept. One day, she sees a bird outside her window, and it inspires her to change things around. She hires people to assume her identity and live parts of her life. Then slowly, but surely, things start to fall apart. Conceived by Jeesun Choi and Thalia Kostman. Devised by Jeesun Choi, Thalia Kostman, Nate Gebhard and Anna Lewein. Music by Keith Kostman.

Duets of Difference

‘Duets of Difference’ is a dance-theatre performance that embodies how we find unity and equity despite conflict and difference. By pairing the Lower East Side community members, unlike each other in age, identity, faith and culture, alongside professional dancers, the performance explores how people persist, challenge and grow in relation to one another. By purposefully designing a long-term project, Creative Traffic Flow (CTF) resisted societal impulse to jump to polarization and instead, gave space to practice empathetic listening.
Conceived, directed and produced by Creative Traffic Flow. Performed by William Leung, Mimi Webster, Rebecca You, Deborah Lee, Stevie Wu, Nancy Shan, Gladys Solano and Elijah Rasheed. Musician/Composer: Yako Prodis. Dancers: Diana Takagi and Allyn Wong.