If the American dream is a privilege, not a right, then Girma and Elizabeth Kifle have truly earned it. After emigrating from Ethiopia to the United States with nothing, the couple is poised to send their eldest son to college. But everything behind Girma and Elizabeth's white picket fence is not as it appears to be. The ghosts of the life they left in Ethiopia threaten to destroy their American dream before it starts, and the Kifle sons, Jonathan and Daniel, reckon with being American in Ethiopian bodies. In this tense and sharply-drawn family drama, playwright Sam Kebede mines the immigrant experience and asks how far each of us will go to find a place we can call home.

CAST

Simon Gebrebedhin (JOHNATHAN KIFLE), Gabrielle Lott-Rogers (ELIZABETH KIFLE ), Freedom Martin (DANIEL KIFLE), Joseph Primes (GIRMA KIFLE)


UNDERSTUDIES

Brandon Wright (GIRMA KIFLE u/s), Nicholia Aguirre (ELIZABETH KIFLE u/s), Samuel Campbell III (JOHNATHAN and DANIEL KIFLE u/s)
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PRODUCTION TEAM

Sophiyaa Nayar (Director), Ebony Chuukwu (Assistant Director), Rebecca Ross (Stage Manager), Ariel Beller (Assistant Stage Manager), Eleanor Kahn (Scenic Design + Painting), Paul Kim (Costume Design), Eric Watkins (Lighting Design), Joshua Willcox (Sound Design), Therese Richie (Props Design), Caswell James (Technical Director), Neel McNeill* (Production Manager), Alexandra Oparka* (Assistant Production Manager), Slick Jorgensen* (Lighting Assistant), Alon Stotter (Master Electrician), Louis Lothan (Lead Electrician), Athanasia Giannetos (Dramaturg), Sana Selemon (Dialect Coach), Maya Prentiss (Intimacy Director), Casey Hoekstra (Fight Choreography), AJ Links (Casting), Ari Craven* (Graphic Design)


Photos by Joe Mazza | Brave Lux