Event description
Leviathan Lab and JW Theatrical Presents a Staged Reading of
(IMMIGRANTS') LOVE STORIES
By Penny Pun
Directed by Eugene Ma
Dramaturgy by Salma S. Zohdi
(Immigrants') Love Stories centers on four, zero/first-generation immigrant women, as they try to negotiate their different immigration statuses with their professional, romantic and sex lives.
CAST
Damla Coskun, Jenelle Chu, Saby Ramirez Chajon, Jacqueline Nwabueze, Sohina Sidhu, Rodolfo Soto, and Karina Singh
CREW
Ara Tandon, Production Stage Manager
Sarah Goodman, Sound and Projection Designer
Emily Everhard, Videography
Ariel Estrada, Executive Producer + Artistic Director of Leviathan Lab
Jamie Joeyen-Waldorf, Executive Producer
LOCATION
All shows take place at Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative, 424 W 54th St, New York, NY 10019 between 9th & 10th Avenues. | MAP
COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS
Please note, for the safety of our company and guests, Prime Produce encourages, but does not mandate, full vaccinations against COVID-19 and the wearing of a well-fitted, high-filtration mask (such as a K95, KN95, KF94, or well-fitted surgical mask) at all times while in the space.
ACCESSIBILITY
Prime Produce is a fully ADA-compliant venue with an entry ramp.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Penny Pun is a New York-based playwright, dramaturg, and producer. She was born and raised in Hong Kong, and is the Managing Director of National Disability Theatre. She has also worked at Manhattan Theatre Club, Theatre Communications Group, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Dramatists Guild of America. Her writing has been published by major trade magazines, including American Theatre and The Dramatist. Her plays have been developed by Pan Asian Rep and Rising Circle Theater Collective. Penny graduated Valedictorian from Marymount Manhattan College and holds an MA in English & Comparative Literature (specializing in Performance and Disability Studies) from Columbia University.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Eugene Ma is a Drama Desk-nominated, interdisciplinary theater maker, who directs, teaches, acts, composes and clowns around the globe. Co-Artistic Director of TRADE CO: The International (minor feelings) Trading Company. Select directing: The Making of King Kong (Target Margin), Animus Anima//Anima Animus (Public /Brooklyn College), In The Blood (Columbia Grad Acting), The Baltimore Waltz (OSF Daedalus). Select acting: A Servant of Two Masters (TFANA & Seattle Rep) and Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Yale Rep & Berkeley Rep); and at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mary Zimmerman’s production of Guys and Dolls (also The Wallis) and Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, helmed by auteur Stan Lai. Eugene is an Artist-in-Residence at Hong Kong Baptist University and have been on faculty at Columbia Grad Acting, Yale School of Drama and Harvard TDM. BFA: NYU. www.playwitheugene.com
ABOUT LEVIATHAN LAB
Founded in 2009, Leviathan Lab is an award-winning not-for-profit creative studio whose mission is the advancement of Asian and Asian American (A/AA) performing artists and their work. Through the speaking of A/AA artists’ words, and the presentation of A/AA bodies, presence, and gestures on stage and film, Leviathan works to open spaces that promote social justice, bridge communities, and assert the power of art to change the world. We function as a lab where early-career and established A/AA artists can be courageous, experiment, and thrive as they create works that captivate the audiences we serve. www.leviathanlab.org
ABOUT JAMIE JOEYEN-WALDORF & JW THEATRICAL
JW Theatrical seeks to serve artists and theatre lovers by creating and supporting innovative stories for a new era of audiences. We work with artists and supporters who are not afraid of driving forward change and creating lasting partnerships, leaving no idea untried. JW Theatrical CEO Jamie Joeyen-Waldorf has worked at both non-profit and commercial theatre companies across New York and Chicago, including the offices of producers Hunter Arnold and Daryl Roth, Tony Award-winning theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, and Allied Integrated Marketing. She has also worked on Heather Marlowe's original play, The HAZE, helping to book the show at college campuses across the country. She started her professional producing career on Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, earning her first Tony Award nomination. Later, she produced the world premiere reading of Penny Pun's Immigrants' Love Stories, the Off-Broadway production of A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, and The Kite Runner. Jamie serves on the Board of Directors of Young Artists of America, the DC Metro Area's premiere youth performing arts organization. www.jwtheatrical.com
ABOUT PRIME PRODUCE APPRENTICE COOPERATIVE
The Prime Produce Apprentice Cooperative operates 424 w 54 Street as a legally incorporated and wholeheartedly organized co-op supporting entrepreneurs, educators, and artists who share values of service and hospitality. Here, we work to design experiences, build companies and organizations, practice our crafts, cultivate relationships, and grow as people. www.primeproduce.coop
IMAGE DESCRIPTION
A hot pink image with a light tracing of the Manhattan skyline in the background, with the show's title in bubble letters. Above the title there is yellow lettering that lists the producers credits. Below the title there is yellow lettering that provides the author, director, and dramaturg information.