A family responds to injustice and a daughter reckons with her political inheritance in this new play by “a poet, a playwright to pay attention to” (Variety).

Janice’s parents are prominent activists fighting for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas. As injustice penetrates the warm bubble of her childhood, Janice grows apart from her family and starts a new life far away. When she receives a call asking her to speak at a ceremony honoring her father, she must decide whether she’s ready to reckon with her political inheritance—and a past she has tried to forget.

• Christina Anderson, Playwright

  Christina Anderson is a playwright, television writer, educator and creative. Her plays have appeared at Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Rep and other theaters in the United States and Canada. Awards and honors include: 2020 United States Artists Fellow, MacDowell Fellowship, Lily Awards Harper Lee Prize, Herb Alpert Award nomination, Barrymore Nomination and New Dramatists Residency. Her work has appeared multiple times on the annual Kilroy's List, an industry survey of notable new works by female playwrights. She is also the winner of the Lucille Lortel Fellowship. Christina’s plays include: How to Catch Creation; the ripple, the wave that carried me home; Man in Love; Pen/Man/Ship; The Ashes Under Gait City; and Blacktop Sky. She taught playwriting at Wesleyan University, Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase College, and served as the interim Head of Playwriting at Brown University. Anderson recently worked as a television staff writer on Edie Falco’s CBS drama, Tommy. Current projects include producing an album of instrumental hip hop music titled The Montage Flow and writing her first tv pilot, The Only Isaac.

  

• Miranda Haymon, Director

  Miranda Haymon is a Princess Grace Award/Honoraria-winning director, writer, and curator. Off-Broadway credits include The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre). Additional credits include Really, Really Gorgeous (The Tank); In the Penal Colony (Next Door at NYTW, The Tank); Mondo Tragic (National Black Theater), Everybody (Sarah Lawrence College) and A Cakewalk (Garage Magazine and Gucci). Haymon is a resident director at Roundabout Theatre Company and The Tank, a New Georges affiliate artist, a Usual Suspect at NYTW, a Space on Ryder Farm creative resident, and member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and the Wingspace Mentorship Program.  mirandahaymon.com