A Woman Among Women

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A co-production with New Georges
Written by Julia May Jonas
Music & music direction by Brian Cavanagh-Strong
Directed by Sarah Hughes

We are thrilled to open the first Season in our new home with a world premiere by celebrated writer, Julia May Jonas.

It’s Cleo’s backyard, Roy’s back in town, and Christine’s brought information. I mean, basil. A riff off Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, A Woman Among Women challenges the audience to participate in the making of a tragic hero, experience her Aristotelian fall from grace, and interrogate the meaning of collective catharsis. A Woman Among Women is part of Jonas’s All Long True American Stories, a cycle of five “response plays” which reimagine five canonical 20th-Century male-experience plays for other people (mostly women).

  • Brittany K. Allen

    CHRISTINE

    Brittany K. Allen is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. Recent credits include her own play, Redwood (Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Center Stage), Deep Blue Sound (Clubbed Thumb), The Good John Proctor (Bedlam; New Yorker's Best Theatre of 2023), and Gloria: A Life (DR2). She has developed new and old work with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, Classic Stage Company, Atlantic Theater Company, New Georges, Bedlam, Primary Stages, The Flea, and New York Stage and Film, among other places. She is a company member with Colt Coeur, and teaches on faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference.

  • Gabriel Brown

    ROY

    Gabriel Brown most recently appeared in the world premiere of BIG DATA directed by Pam MacKinnon at the American Conservatory Theater. Other credits include: Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theater); Love & Money (Signature Theatre); The Mystery of Love & Sex, dir. Sam Gold (Lincoln Center); The City of Conversation, dir. Doug Hughes (Lincoln Center); as well as Blue (The Apollo); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Mark Taper Forum, Ovation Award); A Raisin in the Sun (Westport Country Playhouse) all directed by Phylicia Rashad. Brown was a Series Regular on the Issa Rae produced limited series “Minimum Wage” (ALLBLK), and has appeared on “The Good Fight” (Paramount +), and “Madam Secretary” (CBS).

  • Annie Fang

    RIDA/TRISHA

    Off-Broadway: Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater), SHHHH (Atlantic Theater Company). Other New York credits include Usus and Chairs (Clubbed Thumb). Select regional: Jennifer Who Is Leaving (Round House Theatre), Thrive, Or What You Will and Twelfth Night (American Shakespeare Center), SHIP (Azuka Theatre), Man of God (InterAct Theatre). IG: @thefatpecan. fang-annie.com

  • Zoë Geltman

    GRACE

    Zoë Geltman is a writer and performer. Select performing credits include Kara & Emma & Barbara & Miranda (The Tank), Remember This Trick (Target Margin), Spindle Shuttle Needle (Clubbed Thumb), The World My Mama Raised (Clubbed Thumb), PIONEERS #goforth (JACK), Evelyn (The Bushwick Starr), and The Return (CPM Gallery). She is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College. www.zoegeltman.com.

  • Hannah Heller

    SARAH

    Hannah Heller is a joyous repeat offender at The Bushwick Starr and has gleefully worked with Julia Jonas since 2005, including her plays Evelyn (Bushwick Starr) and Emily Climbs: Machine Mechante (The Brick). Other select NY Theater: Strange Window (BAM), Actress Fury (Bushwick Starr), The World is Round (BAM), The Reception (HERE Arts Center). Film/TV: Lemon (Magnolia Pictures/Killer Films), Hard World For Small Things (WEVR), Jeff and Some Aliens (Comedy Central). Hannah co-created the web-series Morning Chardonnay and wrote and directed the short film Ursula. Upcoming, Hannah will be seen in The Bride (Warner Bros.) and is the co-creator of The Nutcracker Suite with Dorrance Dance at New York City Center this November. Hannah would like to thank Gabú, Uma, and master of humanity Philippe Gaulier.

  • Lucy Kaminsky

    TAMMY

    Lucy Kaminsky is an actor and dancer from Brooklyn. Over the last 15 years she’s had the absolute thrill and honor to work with 600 Highwaymen, William Burke, Katie Brook, Corinne Donly, Meghan Finn, McFeeley Sam Goodman, Sarah Hughes, Julia May Jonas, LILLETH, Juliana F. May, Daaimah Mubashshir and New Saloon among others. She was featured in the MGMT music video for "When you Die". Recent film credits include: Together Together, A Different Man, The Sweet East, The Adults, The Plagiarists. She graduated from Bard College with a BA in Environmental Studies.

  • Drew Lewis

    LANE

    Drew Lewis is a Brooklyn-based actor, writer & director. Stage: Redwood (EST); The Joy of Painting (Clubbed Thumb); India Pale Ale (MTC); Romeo & Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost (HVSF). He’s developed work at the Bushwick Starr, the Public, Playwright’s Horizons, NYTW, MTC, EST, ACT, etc. Screen: Succession; Mozart in the Jungle; Blue Bloods; Alternatino; and two seasons as ‘Dr. Hack’ on Hack My Life. Internet: Good Cop Great Cop. Drew currently has features in development with Sight Unseen (co-written w/ Will Arbery) & Likely Story. Proud member of EST. Graduate of Kenyon College. thedrewlewis.com

  • Maria-Christina Oliveras

    TINA

    Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy; Amelie; Machinal; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Hadestown (National Tour).  Off-Broadway: Here Lies Love, Romeo and Juliet, Parable of the Sower (Public); Pretty Filthy (Civilians); Zorba! (City Center/Encores); Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade…(St. Ann’s); NYTW, Atlantic, Primary Stages, Clubbed Thumb, EST, among others.  Regional: Kiss My Aztec! (Berkeley Rep, La Jolla, Hartford Stage); Soft Power (CTG/Curran); Amelie (CTG/Berkeley Rep); El Huracån (Yale Rep); Macbeth/As You Like It (HVSF); Williamstown, Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington, Long Wharf, Denver Center, Sundance, O’Neill, Powerhouse. Selected Film/TV: St. Vincent, Manhattan Nocturne, “Blue Bloods,” “NCIS: NOLA,” “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order: SVU.” @mcoliveras

  • Dee Pelletier

    CLEO

    Broadway: The Minutes, August: Osage County. Off-Broadway: Night of the Iguana, The Fears (Signature), Twelfth Night, Washington Square (Axis Company), Women Without Men (Mint Theater), BUG (Barrow Street). Regional: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre), A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Pendragon Theatre), Third (Hangar Theatre), Good People (Geva Theatre, Indiana Rep), Grace, or The Art of Climbing (Denver Center), Cymbeline, Hamlet, Hedda Gabler (Shakespeare Theatre Co), The Syringa Tree, (Kitchen Theatre, Vermont Stage). TV: Succession, Dr. Death, Orange Is the New Black, Star Trek: Discovery Training: Trinity Rep Conservatory. Member of The Actors Center

Scenic Designer Brittany Vasta, Costume Designer Wendy Yang, Lighting Designer Masha Tsimring, Sound Designer Jordan McCree, Props Manager Maggie Heath, Assistant Director Noah Latty, Assistant Costume Designer Nathalie Gonzalez, Assistant Lighting Designer Jordan Barnett, Assistant Sound Designer Brandon Bulls

Stage Manager (through 11/8/24) Siena Yusi
Assistant Stage Manager (through 11/8/24) Sarah Orttung
Stage Manager (beginning 11/9/24) Sarah Orttung
Assistant Stage Manager (beginning 11/9/24) Dominique Nadeau

Line Producer Lucy Powis

A WOMAN AMONG WOMEN is made with support from: The NYC Women’s Fund for  Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media  and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the  Arts; Venturous Theater Fund of Tides Foundation; The New York State  Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and  the New York State Legislature, the Mental Insight Foundation

A WOMAN AMONG WOMEN has been previously developed through residencies at  NACL, The Jam at New Georges, and The Great Plains Theater Conference.