our 2023-2024 season world premiere:
Redemption Story
written by Peregrine Teng Heard
directed by Sarah Blush
produced by Shannon Sindelar
INT. DINER - LOS ANGELES, 1971. CONNIE LEE (50s, hardened glamor) drinks coffee, fingers her cigarettes. A MAN (20s, blond and eager) pushes through the door, and Connie does a double-take, then turns away. She's already made the worst mistake of her life, and a fresh face can't fix it. A new play about alienation, conditional love, and our distorted senses of self.
May 4 - 19, 2024
Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre
at the A.R.T./New York Theatres
502 West 53 Street, NYC
featuring Christine Toy Johnson*
José Espinosa*
Dee Beasnael
Emily Stout*
Gregory Saint Georges*
and Mitchell Winter*
*appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
Scenic Designer Emmie Finckel – Costume Designer Dan Wang
Lighting Designer Jiahao (Neil) Qiu – Sound Designer John Gasper
Props Designer Rhys Roffey – Intimacy & Fight Choreographer Amaal Saifudeen
Rehearsal Stage Manager Aisling Galvin – Production Stage Manager Caroline Wilkes
Technical Director jack woods – Associate Producer Kate Purdum
Assistant Producer Benjamin Papac — Press Representation Emily Owens PR
Graphic Designer Nick Emrich
Performance space for this production was subsidized by the A.R.T./New York Theatres Rental Subsidy Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).
“A superb new solo show. Stout's performance is effortlessly absorbing and hilarious.... Funny, warm, and heartbreaking.”
— Thinking Theater
“A generous and piercing view into the experience of losing someone you love, complete with the bleakness, divinity, and strangely hilarious moments that surround death.”
— 3Views on Theater
Actor, writer, and New York’s hottest babysitter Emily Stout passes on to us the verbatim wisdom of Cate (age 9), Lucy (age 8), Wren (age 11), and Vanessa (age 11½)—the children she’s taken care of over the years, and interviewed. As Emily absorbs their perspectives on losing teeth, pets, and loved ones, she reflects on the rollercoaster of her own childhood. Grownup is a hilarious one-woman show centered around how absolutely excruciating it can be to grow up, and what it even means to finally be a grownup.
Director Mary Rose Branick - Producer Peregrine Teng Heard
Scenic & projection designer Nicholas Ponting - Costume designer Daniella Toscano
Lighting designer Bryan Ealey - Sound designer Andrew Lynch
Stage manager Amber Dettmers - Technical director jack woods
Associate producer Anne Troup - Production manager Jacob Russell
A party-performance to celebrate our sixth season & The Cousinhood !
Featuring Brian Bock, Katharine Chin, and Peregrine Teng Heard
Lighting design by Victoria Bain
The Cousinhood tells the story of a matriarchal religious group guided by love and pacifism in a future America. Beyond the dogma, behind the apocrypha, and within the squabbles of hobbyist reenactors, there lies the elusive core of the Cousins’ faith—and, beneath that, our own desire for meaning.
Furnace Festival workshop directed by Lauren Zeftel
Dramaturg Philip Santos Schaffer - Stage manager Emily Fischer
Featuring Janice Amaya, Brian Bock, Jessica Frey, Peregrine Teng Heard, Lindsley Howard, Teri Madonna, Eden Ohayon, and Casey Worthington
In addition to the ensemble of this workshop, the following artists have collaborated with The Associates on The Cousinhood: Rachael Balcanoff, Timothy Craig, Daniel Desmarais, Cyndii Johnson, Nico Krell, Conrad Schott, and Alex Seeley
Who are the Cousins?
How do we know what we know about them?
And why are they so important to our survival today?
Begin to ask the right questions.
Begin to hear the right answers.
Co-sponsored by
The Society for the Preservation of Cousin History and Culture
and The Associates Theater Ensemble
Open to all, mandatory for new members.
“Intriguing, suspenseful, beautifully written and brilliantly acted.”
— BlogCritics
“Sheila does not disappear after the final curtain—it lingers, requiring time for full absorption. Indeed, the more time passes, the more intricate and beautiful the story becomes.”
— Theater Is Easy
September 1987. The edge of town. Gloria opens her door to the woman she hasn’t seen since she disappeared from home ten years ago. Mary sees the face that has haunted her memories of childhood and dreams of womanhood. But the reflection that the women seek in each other is dimmed and distorted by the years of silence. How did they get here? Did one of them take a wrong turn, or were they driven apart?
A thrillingly intimate drama, Sheila pits two women against the world: not to conquer it—to survive it. But what chance do they have to decide the terms of that survival?
Director Jamal Abdunnasir - Producer Casey Worthington
Associate producer Stanley Bahorek - Stage manager Emily Fischer
Scenic designer Brittany Vasta - Costume designer Isabelle Coler
Lighting designers Victoria Bain & Tyler First - Sound designer Mark Van Hare
Props designer Michaela Whiting
Featuring Peregrine Teng Heard, Lauren LaRocca & Emily Stout
Performance space for this production was subsidized by the A.R.T./New York Theatres Rental Subsidy Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).
“The world is a subtle experiential concert of design. The staging is smart and clean, leaning into focused specificity and a sophisticated conversation with kinesthetic response. This show is worth a conversation with The Associates.”
— The Reviews Hub
One night only benefit party & performance to launch our fourth season in style.
say you're sorry: A Salon with The Associates
May 26, 2016
The Great Room at South Oxford Space
Summer is coming, and apologies are in order. For one show only, The Associates perform our latest in mind-bending, surprise-vending theater.
This salon is one to make Gertrude Stein and Andy Warhol proud. You will drink, you will mingle, you will gasp, and you may apologize.
Can a person build an identity – white or black – that outsmarts racism? A well-intentioned white man puts his conscience on the page, at the risk of exposing his prejudice and imposing his ideals on his partner. What he writes strands them in a shifting landscape of secrets, fantasies, and shaded identities.
Director Peregrine Teng Heard – Dramaturg Ayana Wilson
Scenic designer Sarah Johnsrude – Costume designer Beatrice Vena
Lighting designer Tyler First – Sound designer Emily Auciello
Producer Sam Barickman – Stage manager Emily Tabachuk
Featuring Jamal Abdunnasir, Timothy Craig, Peregrine Teng Heard, Lauren LaRocca, Emily Stout, & Casey Worthington
Nominated for Outstanding Original Script by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards
Developed with support from HB Studio's First Floor Studio residency and SPACE on Ryder Farm.
What do you want to hear, and what are you willing to watch? The actors invite the audience to imagine what's beyond the scripted drama, nestled in the familiar nooks and crannies of human desire, where the truth is about ten dollars cheaper than a secret divulged.
Presented in F*ckfest at The Brick
Featuring Jamal Abdunnasir, Peregrine Teng Heard, Lauren LaRocca, Emily Stout, & Casey Worthington