2023-2024
A SEASON OF LOST AND FOUND
This insightful drama focuses on two key moments in the life of Holocaust survivor turned successful entrepreneur and bon-vivant, Isaac Geldhart. In the first, integrity clashes with commercialism as a family coup threatens to oust Isaac from his own publishing company. In the second, an aging Isaac must sort through the trauma of his past in order to prove he is sane enough to maintain his independence.
"A deeply compassionate play." - New York Times
"A remarkably intelligent drama."
- New York Newsday
Directed by Jesse Bernstein
CAST
Isaac Geldhart - Brooke Behmke
Marge Hackett - Zuhairah McGill
Sarah Geldhart - Julia Natoli
Aaron Geldhart - David Pica
Martin Geldhart - Jamison Foreman
A swirling journey through love, faith, Judaism, modernity and history told through the lens of one woman trying to recreate herself following a painful divorce. How do we begin again? How did it all start in the first place?
Directed by Esther M. Cohen
CAST
Mama - Bobbi Block
Baal -Thomas Geiger
Other Man - Frank Jimenez
Ida - Michaela Shuchman
The dead are meant to stay buried – aren’t they? Shiva is over, but Mort and his son Artie are still mourning the loss of wife and mother Shirley when a seeming miracle jolts them from their grief. But the miracle comes with its own complications, which they try to navigate in the most unexpected of ways. A dark comedy about death that is nonetheless filled with life.
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Directed by Jesse Bernstein
CAST
Marcia Saunders as Bella
Hannah Gold as Shirley
Jeff Pfeiffer as Artie
Seth Reichgott as Mort
Jack Hoffman as Sid
Charlotte Northeast as Ceil
Simultaneously an elegy for the dead and a cry of hope for the living, Sholem Asch’s poetic and riveting drama about a traumatized shtetl is brought to vivid life in this new translation. A soldier feared lost in war returns home, prophesying about a place without suffering. Will they join him in this new world – or stay and push on in this one?
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Directed by Jesse Bernstein
Assistant Directed by Esther M. Cohen
Jesse Bernstein - The Foreigner, First Merchant
T.C. Caldwell - Reb Nehemiah
Ben Cohen - The Second Child
Alec Farquharson - Yosef
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Jim Golden - Third Jew
Jemma Bleu Greenbaum - The First Child
Jeff Kudisch - The First Jew, Third Merchant
Dana Liu - Madwoman, Second Woman,
Second Merchant
Susan Moses - The Mother
Aneesa Neibauer - Dina
Emily Schuman - The First Woman
Belle Starr - Girl
Beau Starr - Boy
Rebecca Fox Starr - The Third Woman
Alan Susser - The Second Jew
Tom Teti - Reb Khonen
2022-2023
A SEASON OF LEGACY
Directed by Jesse Bernstein
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Nora Gair
CAST
Linda - Janis Dardaris
Saul - David Ingram
Nan - Marcia Saunders
Bev - Susan Riley Stevens
Sammi - Melanie Bernier
A seder might be all about order, but you wouldn’t know it when the Stein family gets together for Passover. Will this off-kilter clan can come together as a family – or will this age-old tradition finally tear them apart?
Ariel - Kaitlyn Zion
Ester - Sonseray Reed
From the master comic mind behind the hit play All In The Timing comes this witty, romantic story of a couple looking to take the next step. Can they reconcile their differences? Can love mature? And why won’t that phone stop ringing…?
Directed by Jesse Bernstein
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Danielle Fredane Quinn
CAST
Ruth - Chelsea Cylinder
Jack - Carl Smith
An Israeli violinist living along a picturesque canal in Amsterdam receives an unpaid gas bill from 1944. The past comes due in this imaginatively-told mystery about identity and assimilation. A Philadelphia premiere!
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Directed by Jesse Bernstein
CAST(as themselves)
Dana Liu
Jordan Hunter-Fidalgo
Adam Pelta-Pauls
Bobbi Block
2022 Jewish Plays Project Finalist
In a world where family is everything, a woman's struggle with infertility will lead her to reach beyond the safety of her Hasidic community.
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Directed by Esther M. Cohen
CAST
LEAH WALTON as Yehudis
SETH REICHGOTT
BEN BEHRAND
BRITTANY ONUKWUGHA
2021-2022
