This show is one of five productions that are part of New Works - New Voices, a virtual production series. Tickets to each individual production are $5.00 per performance. There is a Season Flex Pass available. For $20.00, passholders will have tickets registered for one performance of their choosing for each five productions. For more information and to purchase a Season Flex Pass, click here.

IN THE OPEN

Written by: Mona Mansour

Directed by: Kimille Howard

About the Play:

At an elite high school for high achievers, an incident happens, an escalation of violence, something that never ever happens there. We see some of the lead up to it, as well as some of the fallout, and we see different entry points and accountings of the same incident, making us wonder if one truth matters more, or if the truth underneath it all - that such a thing could happen here – is possibly more disturbing than the incident itself.

About the Playwright:

Mona Mansour is an American playwright of Middle Eastern descent. She has been a member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, a Core Writer for the Playwrights' Center, and she is currently a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Mansour often writes about the Middle East, and she has frequently collaborated with English director Mark Wing-Davey. In addition to her theater work, Mansour has written for the television shows Queens Supreme and Dead Like Me.

About the Guest Director:

Kimille Howard is a New York based director, deviser, writer and filmmaker. She is currently a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club, a resident director at The Flea Theater, and a recent NYTW 2050 Directing Fellow. She is an Assistant Stage Director at the Metropolitan Opera and recently worked on the new James Robinson production of Porgy and Bess. Select directing credits include: The Fellowship Playsfor the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation, A Light Staggeringby Jeesun Choi (EST - Asking For Trouble), Tidwell: or the Plantation Playby Rodney Witherspoon II (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival - winner), Low Powerby Jon Kern (EST’s Marathon ‘19), BLACK GIRLS ARE FROM OUTER SPACE by Emana Rachelle (National Black Theatre), Skeleton Crewby Dominique Morisseau (TheatreSquared) and TRIGGERED by Gabriel Jason Dean (Cherry Lane Theatre). Her work has also been seen at Queens Theatre, The Circle in the Square Theatre Circle Series, The Flea, The Lark, JAGFest, NYU, Sea Dog Theater, and Atlantic Acting School among others. Kimille was the assistant director to Des McAnuff on Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptationson Broadway. She has worked with Rebecca Frecknall, Ruben Santiago Hudson, Des McAnuff, Emily Mann, Stephen Wadsworth, Jessica Stone, Jade King Carroll, Niegel Smith, Lorca Peress, and Melissa Maxwell. She has produced shows at the HERE Arts Center, FIAF, and more.

About New Works - New Voices

New Works - New Voices is a virtual production series dedicated to amplifying the voices of marginalized and underrepresented playwrights and composers. This virtual series promises to not only provide meaningful performance, design, and technical opportunities for our students, but also to lift up the voices of writers and composers from diverse communities and populations.

The WCSU Department of Theatre Arts is dedicated to the safety of our students, and is leading the way in online production innovation. Each show will be rehearsed, performed, edited, and broadcast entirely online. Each show will have two performance dates as part of a 10-day-long virtual production festival, spanning from November 27th through December 6th.

How to View Virtual Production

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