About this show
What do we owe the people who raised us?
After her mother's hospitalization, Bean returns home expecting to help her recover. Instead, she's forced to confront the dreams, expectations, and traditions that have quietly shaped her entire life. As old tensions ripple to the surface, both women must confront the love and sacrifices that bind them together.
The Waterfall is an intimate powerful exploration of family, identity, and the ties that shape us.
Runs Jan 22 - Feb 27
Running Time
This production runs at about 100 minutes without an intermission
Content advisory
This production includes the following: Strong Language, and Flashing Lights
DIGITAL PROGRAM
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Accessible Performances
Audio-Described and Touch Tour:
Friday, Feb 19th at 7:30 pm
(6:15 pm touch tour, 7:30 pm curtain)
Open-Captioned Public Performance:
Sunday, Feb 21st at 3 pm
What Should Audiences Expect?
The Artists
PLAYWRIGHT: Phanésia Pharel
DIRECTOR: Jasmine B. Gunter
SET DESIGN: Regina Garcia
COSTUMES: Kotryna Hilko
LIGHTING:
PROPS: Ab Rieve
SOUND:
STAGE MANAGER: Tina Jach
PRODUCTION MANAGER: E Tylkowski
FEATURED ENSEMBLE MEMBERS
Tina Jach, Kotryna Hilko
The Cast
EMI: XXXx
BEAN: XXxx
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Phanésia Pharel (Playwright) is a Haitian-American playwright from a dragon fruit farm in Miami. The daughter of an immigrant teacher and farmer, she writes to honor people. Her full-length plays include DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEÑERA, THE WATERFALL, R&B, LUCKY, and BLACK GIRL JOY. She is the incoming playwriting fellow at Emory University where she will teach and have a new play produced through their repertory company. She has received commissions from the Atlantic Theater, Lucille Lortel (Alcove), La Jolla Playhouse, Miranda Family Fund, Hero Theatre, City Theatre Miami, and the Latinx Playwrights Circle. Her honors include Kilroys List, five awards from the Kennedy Center, two-time Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist/Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Finalist, A is For Playwriting award recipient and the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Finalist Prize. Phanésia is a member of the Obie-winning EST/Youngblood group and The Wish Collective. Her work has been developed by the Playwrights’ Center, New York Stage and Film, SolFest, Thrown Stone, Shattered Globe, and Echo Theater Company. B.A, Urban Studies, Barnard College of Columbia University. MFA, Playwriting, UCSD ‘25.
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Jasmine B. Gunter (she/her) works as an active director, producer, and casting director around the U.S. She was the 2021 recipient of the Hangar Directing Drama League fellowship, the 2020 recipient of the Leighton M. Ballew Directing Scholarship, and a proud graduate of the Northwestern MFA Directing program and SDC member. Recent directing credits includes Furlough’s Paradise (Geva Theatre), The Love Object (Story Theatre), Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really (Northwestern University), The Revolutionists (Northwestern University), jump (Northwestern University) Lost Girl (Hangar Theatre), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Hangar Theatre), Hedda Gabler (Northwestern University) Wine in the Wilderness (Northwestern University), Intimate Apparel (SUNY Brockport), Ghost Story (Kane Repertory Theatre), Lines in the Dust (Geva Theatre Center), Reroute (24 Hour Plays: Nationals). Associate/Assistant Credit: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Remy Bumppo), Nina Simone: Four Women (Arena Stage), In the Heights (Seattle Rep), Quixote Nuevo (Hartford Stage/Huntington Theatre Company), and The Luckiest People (Actors Theatre of Charlotte/NNPN). Jasmine has also taught at the Berkshire Theatre Group and the Redhouse Arts Center in Syracuse, NY.
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