Passing
by Dipika Guha
directed by Nicole A. Watson
March 9, 2022 at 7:30pm EST
In the fifties, on an island colonized by the British, an English couple kidnaps a child indigenous to the island. On National Sorry Day the child, now a visual artist, has been asked to participate in the proceedings where “both sides” peaceably reconcile. PASSING is a confrontation with a brutally violent history which resists erasure.
Featuring Kelley Curran, Zachary Fine, Rachel Spencer Hewitt, K.K. Moggie and Max Gordon Moore. The production has shadow puppetry created and performed by Andy Gaukel.
Tickets
Passing premieres on March 9 at 7:30pm.
For 24 hours, from March 9 until March 11 at 12am, tickets to stream the play any time through the end of the 2021-2022 Bard Season will be available for FREE.
After the premiere date, tickets are $15 including all fees.
Post-Show Discussion
A post-show discussion with the play’s cast and creative team will take place live online March 10 at 7:30 p.m. Details coming soon.
Bios
Dipika Guha was born in Calcutta and raised in India, Russia and the UK. Her plays include Yoga Play (South Coast Repertory, San Francisco Playhouse), The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503, London) and Unreliable (Kansas City Rep). She was the inaugural recipient of the Shakespeare’s Sister Award through the Lark Play Development Center, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and the Venturous Fellowship for her play Passing. She is currently writing plays for Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory & Berkeley Rep. Dipika is a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center, a proud member of the Ma Yi writers Lab and is a current resident at New Dramatists. For TV, she’s written on American Gods, Sneaky Pete, projects at AMC and Netflix, two seasons of Showtime’s Black Monday and is currently adapting a novel called The Funambulist for FilmNation. She received her BA in English Literature at University College London, was a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University and was awarded her MFA from the Yale School of Drama under Paula Vogel.
Kelley Curran - can currently be seen as Turner on HBO's The Gilded Age. Broadway: Present Laughter. Off-Broadway: Mother of The Maid (The Public Theater), The Winter's Tale (TFANA), Dracula (Classic Stage Company), Angels in America (Signature Theatre), Sense & Sensibility (Bedlam), Atmosphere of Memory (LAByrinth Theatre Co), 'Tis Pity... (Red Bull), The DingDong (The Pearl), and three seasons with The Acting Company. In 2019, Kelley originated the role of Clytemnestra in Ellen McLaughlin's world premiere adaptation of The Oresteia at The Shakespeare Theatre of DC. Film/TV: The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot, The Gilded Age (HBO), The Blacklist (ABC), God Friended Me (CBS). Honors: Callaway Award, NTC Emerging Professional Award, and Drama League, Helen Hayes, and Princess Grace Award Nominations. Training: Fordham at Lincoln Center.
Zack Fine (He/Him) is an actor, director, playwright and teacher. Notable credits as an actor; Broadway: China Doll with Al Pacino, Off-Broadway: The Acting Company, Mint Theater Company, Fiasco, Red Bull, TFANA, Pearl, Bedlam. Select Regional: Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger (Helen Hayes Award Two Gentlemen of Verona), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Playmakers Repertory Company. Directing credits include: World Premier of El Bien Del Pais (Helenico, Mexico City), So Please You and Sea Maid’s Music (HVSF), Bewilderness (Playmakers Repertory Company). Writing developed with The Lark, The Public, Primary Stages, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and many more. His original plays include Walled In, Manifest Destiny, Bewilderness, Cooking With Kathryn, Dignity, Always Dignity and Dennis currently in development with the world-renowned comedy troupe Spymonkey. He is on faculty at NYU and Fiasco Conservatory as a teacher of clown and games. He’s also been on TV a few times.
Rachel Spencer-Hewitt is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama MFA Acting program where she received the Pierre-André Salim Award. Her resume features various film and commercial work as well as diverse theatre credits from Broadway (King Charles III) to off-Broadway (A Civil War Christmas, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Seagull) to Regional (Cry It Out/Hartford Stage, Servant of Two Masters/Shakespeare Theatre Company, Master Builder/Yale Repertory Theatre) and more. She was previously in the Bard at the Gate series as Doll Cutpurse in The Droll by Meg Miroshnik. Her advocacy work for PAAL has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, American Theatre Magazine, and more.
K.K Moggie - Off Broadway includes: Preparedness (Bushwick Starr) Eureka Day (Colt Coeur), Passage (Soho Rep), The Gravediggers Lullaby (The Actors Company) Daphne’s Dive (Signature Theater) Charles Francis Chan Jr’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery (NAATCO), One Night (Cherry Lane), The Golden Dragon (The Play Company), Bottom of the World (Atlantic Theater Company), Grace (MCC), Richard III (Classic Stage Company) Regional: Mary Stuart (title role, Chicago Shakespeare Theater) Film: Shackled, After Party, Home, Anna and the King, The Sleeping Dictionary T.V includes: Inventing Anna (Netflix), Bull (CBS), God Friended Me (CBS) The Good Wife (CBS), Gossip Girl (CW), Mercy (NBC), White Collar (USA) Special thanks to Wiley and Kevin, my heart and soul.
Max Gordon Moore: Selected Theatre: (Broadway) Indecent, The Nap, Saint Joan, Relatively Speaking. (Off-Broadway) Mothers, Describe the Night (Atlantic Theatre), Man From Nebraska (Second Stage), The Master Builder (BAM), Man and Superman, It’s a Wonderful Life (Irish Rep). Film: Here Today. TV: Succession, NCIS: New Orleans, Instinct, Madam Secretary, The Good Wife. Max is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Yale School of Drama.