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Frontieres sans Frontieres
​by Phillip Howze

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April 25 - May 19, 2024
Directed by Elizabeth Dinkova
CAST: Frank Britton*, Surasree Das, Lauren Davis, Jamil Joseph, Camilo Linares, Victor Salinas, Anna Takayo
*Member, Actors' Equity Association

Production: Nadir Bey (Set Design), Christian Henrriquez (Lighting Design), Navi (Sound Design and Composition), Johnna Presby (Costume Design), Liz Long (Properties Design),
Robert Bowen Smith (Movement Director), Yetunde Felix-Ukwu (Dialect Coach), Fior Tat (Stage Manager), Reed Simiele (Production Manager and Technical Director).

“REFRESHING, BITING, FUNNY AND RELEVANT...the sophisticated commentary is deeply stimulating. It makes you laugh, it makes you think" --BroadwayWorld

​"ENCHANTINGLY SARDONIC...Directed by Spooky’s artistic director Elizabeth Dinkova displaying a knack for comic irony worthy of Howze’s WICKEDLY WRY script...BRILLIANT PRODUCTION" --DCTheaterArts

"STRONG PERFORMANCES across the board, an admirably DISTINCT VISUAL STYLE, and covers subjects that are VERY MUCH RELEVANT...it’s A LOT OF FUN to see their increasingly absurd interactions play out...[with an] appropriately jarring and trippy sound design" --MDTheatreGuide

At a landfill in a country that feels familiar and foreign, three stateless youth have cobbled together a scrappy living: learning Engaleash, raising ruckus, dreaming big while getting by with little. Soon a whirlwind of tourists, social media influencers, foreign investors, and do-gooders invade their home with promises of assistance and civilization – but at what cost?  Howze’s “brightly colored, comic fantasia on cultural imperialism” (The New York Times) dazzles with its blistering satire and asks, who wins and who loses in a war to hold on to the people and places we love?

Content transparency: shooting and war sounds, on-stage violence, drug and alcohol use, implications of child trafficking, use of haze, strobe and herbal cigarettes.

Running time: 1hr 45mins with one intermission.
Frontieres Sans Frontieres is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT - Phillip Howze is a writer and theater maker whose works have been developed and produced across the country including at Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theater Workshop, PRELUDE Festival, Public Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, Signature Theatre, Sundance Institute Theater Lab and Yale Cabaret. Howze’s playwriting debut, Frontieres Sans Frontieres, premiered in an extended, sold-out engagement at the Bushwick Starr and was named one of the "10 Best Theatrical Productions of the Year" by New York Magazine/Vulture. He’s writing new play commissions for the American Repertory Theater, Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center, and he was recently appointed the inaugural Associate Senior Lecturer at Harvard University’s Theater, Dance & Media program. His new collection Rarities & Wonders: Plays is available from Tripwire Harlot Press. (www.tripwireharlot.com)

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR - Elizabeth Dinkova, Spooky Action Theater’s new artistic director, is a Bulgarian director, adaptor, and collaborative creator who explores alternative realities at the intersection of theater, film, and music in pursuit of communal transformation. In 2021-22, she was an Associate Artistic Director of 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta's hub for boundary-pushing international theater. She is an alum of the Alliance Theatre’s Artistic Leadership fellowship, the Studio Theatre's Artistic Apprenticeship, and a recent graduate from the MFA Directing program at the Yale School of Drama, where she served as a Co-Artistic Director of the Yale Summer Cabaret and received the Julian Milton Kaufman prize for Directing. Recent projects include Spooky Action’s Sonnets for an Old Century and workshop of Syrena, the visual album TIT, inspired by Titus Andronicus and co-written with Jesse Rasmussen, at the NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival, Rage, a play with music adapted from Stephen King, at Quinnipiac University, The Seagull at Serenbe Playhouse, and the opera Orfeo ed Euridice at Bel Cantanti Opera Company. Elizabeth has taught acting, directing, devising, and musical theater at the Toronto Metropolitan University, University of California Riverside, Quinnipiac University, and Queens College CUNY.

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