NOW PLAYING THROUGH MAY 5!
Investigating the hot-button topics of gender and race politics, Anna Ziegler (“newly and justly hot” -New York Times) tells a story about our crippling desire to fit in. Amber and Tom, both freshmen at Princeton, spend a drunken night together. Soon after, they find themselves testifying at a sexual misconduct hearing. As the two students, one black and one white, tell their stories, we are left wondering how to find certainty and justice when there are three sides to every story.
"CRAFTED WITH COMPASSION, INTELLIGENCE AND INSIGHT.” — THEATREMANIA
Actually runs approximately 1 hour and 25 minutes, with no intermission.
"Thoroughly engrossing two-way drama, probing the complexities of sex in college today, beautifully staged by Tracy Ward orchestrating two remarkable performances."
Robert Hurwitt, former San Francisco Chronicle Critic
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cast: MICHAEL A. CURRY* Tom ELLA DERSHOWITZ* Amber
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creative team: ANNA ZIEGLER Playwright TRACY WARD Director ULISES ALCALA** Costume Designer JAMES ARD Sound Designer JIM CAVE Lighting Designer AMANDA MASON* Stage Manager GIULIO PERRONE Set Designer |
Member of: * Actor's Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors
and Stage Managers, ** United Scenic Artists
Anna Ziegler (Playwright) is an award-winning American playwright. Her widely produced play Photograph 51 was selected as a “Best of the Year” play by The Washington Post (twice) and The Telegraph. Her play Boy was nominated for the 2016 John Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle, and Actually is the winner of the Ovation Award in Los Angeles for Playwriting of an Original Play. Her work has been produced on the West End, The Old Globe, Seattle Rep, and The Ensemble Studio, The Magic, and City Theatres, and developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, NY Stage & Film, amongst others. Anna is developing a television series for HBO and a screenplay for Scott Free Productions.
Michael A. Curry* (Tom) is a local actor and writer based in Oakland, California. He was recently seen in the re-mount of Black Odyssey at Cal Shakes last year and was also nominated for a TBA award for his work in Ubuntu Theater Project’s production of Topdog/Underdog.
Ella Dershowitz* (Amber) makes her Aurora debut. Locally, her stage credits include Capital Stage, City Lights, Marin Theatre Company. She’s performed off-Broadway at Vineyard Theatre, 59E59, The New Group, Clubbed Thumb, Attic Theater, and Theater Three, and regionally at Hudson Stage and Martha Vineyard Playhouse, among others. Her formal training is from Yale University and London Academy of Music & Art.
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