Theatre Performances
- Cancelina
- The Half-Sibling Play
- 809 Almond
- Dead Girl's Quinceañera
- No Singing In The Navy
Dead Girl's Quinceañera
May 6 - May 18 | Theodore and Adele Shank Theatre
Written by Phanésia Pharel | Directed by Lamar Perry
About the Shows
Being 15 is even more complicated when your best friend goes missing. Maria's besties are in a race against the clock to find out what happened to her and bring her home alive. A dark comedy about secrets, female friendship, and crime solving, DEAD GIRLS QUINCEAÑERA asks what it means to come of age in a messed-up world and what you need to do to survive.
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The Cast
Salma: Kat Peña
Este: Gabriela D'Amico
Phoebe: Colby Muhammad
Maria: Gabriella Marie Johnson
Understudies
Phoebe U/S: Gabriella Marie Johnson
Salma U/S, Este U/S: Olivia Picazo
Maria U/S: Jacqueline Perez
Creative Team
Production Stage Manager: Katie Davis
Scenic Designer: Tzu Yu Su
Costume Designer: Anabel Olguin
Lighting Designer: Vida Huang
Sound Designer: Harper Justus
Dramaturg: Rumi Petersen
Dramaturg: Mackenzy Tolliver
Assistant Stage Manager: Sydney “Squyd” Enthoven
Assistant Stage Manager: Madison Emi Novitski
Assistant Director: Aiden McCormick
Assistant Scenic Designer: Bria Woods-Kirk
Assistant Costume Designer: Kieran Padgett
Assistant Sound Designer: Lula Britos
Cultural Consultant: Jade Power-Sotomayor
Cultural Consultant: Mysia Anderson
About the Playwright
Phanésia Pharel is a Haitian-American playwright from a Dragon Fruit farm in Miami. Daughter of an immigrant teacher and farmer, she writes to honor people.
Phanésia is a member of the Obie award-winning EST/ Youngblood group. Commissions include Hero Theatre, City Theatre Miami, the Latinx Playwrights Circle & Pregones/PRTT Greater Good Commission and Thrown Stone Theatre. Her work has been developed with the Old Globe, New York Stage and Film, Shattered Globe, Echo Theater Company of Los Angeles, and the Playwrights Center.
Full lengths; THE WATERFALL (O'neill Finalist, Kennedy Center Lorraine Hansberry Award, Workshop, Old Globe Theatre, EST Bloodworks reading), R&B (Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist/Honorable Mention, Playwrights Realm Finalist), LUCKY (New York Stage and Film, Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award). BLACK GIRL JOY (Kilroys 2023, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist/Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Finalist, Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Finalist Prize). Other Honors include New Harmony 2023 Finalist and City Theatre National Short Playwriting Finalist.
Publishing: Concord Theatricals, Smith and Kraus Best Plays of 2020, Reset Coalition 2020 Anthology and the City Theatre Anthology.
About the Director
Lamar Perry is a Queer Black director, producer and educator originally from Connecticut. In addition to working as a freelance director, he currently serves as an assistant professor of graduate directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Perry formerly served as associate producer at Tony-award winning The Old Globe. He recently made history alongside Detroit Public Theatre directing “Mud Row” as the inaugural production in their new permanent home.
Recent directing credits include “Animals Out of Paper” (Chautauqua Theatre Company), the off-Broadway world-premiere of New York Times Critics Pick “...What The End Will Be” (Roundabout/Associate Director), “What Lies Beneath” (UC San Diego), “Run/Fire” by Aurin Squire (Cygnet Theater/Finish Line Commission), the off-Broadway world-premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Hot Wing King” (signature/assistant director), and “In Sickness & In Health” by Dea Hurston as a part of An Evening with the San Diego Black Artist Collective featured in The Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival.
Perry is a member of Roundabout’s Leon Levy Director’s Group, cohort II, and is the creator, writer, producer and co-host of both of The Old Globe's podcasts, “Cocktails with the Canon” and “Gather Round!” Perry has developed, directed or assisted on work at Diversionary Theatre/Spark Festival, UC San Diego’s Wagner’s New Play Festival, The O’Neill, Chautauqua Theater Company, San Diego Repertory Theater, National Alliance for Musical Theater, The Juilliard School, The Classical Theatre of Harlem and St. John’s University.
Perry received his bachelor’s of science degree from St. John’s University in 2012, and holds multiple certifications in Shakespeare's Language from Michael Howard Studios and The Pearl Theatre Company, as well as acting from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Perry's teaching interests include Black Theatre history, cultural transposition and reorientation, Queering the canon, and history of directing. In addition to teaching, he will serve as the instructor of record for multiple student-focused productions within the Department of Theatre and Dance.