may.17.2023 - JUN.25.2023
The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
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Cast photo by Emilio Madrid of (from left) Shannon Tyo, Bobby Moreno, Caleb Eberhardt, Susannah Flood, and Brittany Bradford.
A World Premiere from The Obie Award-winning playwright of EVERYBODY and AN OCTOROON.
A self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” reconvenes for the first time in years to pregame for their twentieth high school reunion.
Over alcohol and other such substances, they try to reconnect who they once were with who they’ve each become.
“Horton Foote,
Tennessee Williams
& Eugene O’Neill
all spring to mind.”
– The NEW YORK TIMES
The Cast
Brittany Bradford
Caleb Eberhardt
Susannah Flood
Bobby Moreno
Shannon Tyo
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Playwright)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His plays include Girls, Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). Most recently he was the showrunner, executive producer, and writer for HULU/FX’s drama series, Kindred, based on Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking novel. A Premiere Resident playwright at Signature Theatre, his honors include USA Artists, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award and he currently serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council. He teaches at Yale University.
Eric Ting (Director)
Eric Ting is an Obie Award-winning director whose recent directing credits include the world premieres of Lloyd Suh’s The Far Country (Atlantic Theater Co) and Bina’s Six Apples (Alliance, Children’s Theater Co); Marcus Gardley’s Lear (Cal Shakes, co-director); and Between Two Knees by the 1491s (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). New York: Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater Under the Radar, BAM Next Wave, Soho Rep. Regional: Yale Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Co, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodman, Victory Gardens, Denver Center, CTG, ACT, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. International: Singapore, France, UAE, Holland, Canada, Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bali.
Creative Team
Scenic Design | Arnulfo Maldonado |
Costume Design | Jennifer Moeller and |
Miriam Kelleher | |
Lighting Design | Amith Chandrashaker |
Sound Design | Palmer Hefferan |
Magic Design | Skylar Fox |
Intimacy Coordinator | Ann C. James |
Props Supervisor | Matt Carlin |
Casting | Caparelliotis Casting |
Press | Blake Zidell & Associates |
Production Stage Manager | Amanda Nita Luke-Sayed |
A home for storytellers. A space for all.
Signature Theatre's Season Sponsor is
Bloomberg Philanthropies.
THE COMEUPPANCE is supported, in part, by the
Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust,
and The Michael and Betty Rauch Fund, as well as the New York State Council on the Arts.
