Beto's Interview
By Julio Lourido
Tuesday, August 5th
7:30pm
On November 7, 2024, Alberto Camargo, an Ecuadorian immigrant, attends his naturalization interview conducted by Jamaican American immigration officer Mitch Johnson. Johnson, who previously served in the army for 30 years before taking on this role, presides over the tense and personal encounter. During the interview, Mitch questions Alberto about his past, motivations, and social issues. As the conversation unfolds, themes of identity, trauma related to the immigrant experience, and the privileges of U.S. citizenship emerge. “Beto’s Interview,” based on a true story, challenges the idealized notion of the American Dream by exploring the complexities of immigration and the psychological dynamics between two immigrants from different backgrounds.
Book Club
By Francesca Bolam
Wednesday, August 6th
7:30pm
Five women meet for a book club. Did anybody read the book? Someone’s cheating. Someone’s going broke pretending to be ethical. Someone’s about to scream. Set in one Brooklyn living room over one messy night, "Book Club" is a dark comedy about female friendship, curated lives, and the quiet violence of pretending you’re fine.
Overlap
By Erin Proctor
Thursday, August 7th
7:30pm
A tragic rom-com about theatre-makers thwarted by the infrastructure of the MTA, we follow two twenty-somethings as they navigate minimum wage jobs, blowjobs, mommy issues, grief, and producing theatre from beyond the grave.
My Brother Jake
By Dave Osmundsen
Friday, August 8th
7:30pm
Jake Barnsley is an Autistic theatre artist who has managed to have an “inspiring” career. Ethan, his higher-needs twin brother, has lived in his shadow their whole lives. When Jake’s life and livelihood are at a crossroads, past resentments come to the surface, and Ethan makes an impassioned bid for agency.
Not Our Home, Not Our Home
By Ned Du
Saturday, August 9th
7:30pm
7:30pm
In this surreal drama-comedy, two Taiwanese-American brothers return to Taipei for Chinese New Year, carrying baggage both literal and emotional—including the ashes of a childhood cat. Set against political tension and ancestral ritual, Not Our Home, Not Our Home explores the costs of immigration, the ache of cultural dissonance, and the ghosts we carry across generations. Laced with dark humor, horror elements, and underscored by a lush original score, this play blurs the line between memory and myth, asking: What do we owe the places we leave behind—and the people we become?