Playwright Deneen Reynolds-Knott smiles in front of a brick wall

CAST

Afua Busia* (she/her/they/them) – Ciara

 

Sarah Traisman* (she/her/they/them)- Kat

 

Summer Brown* (she/her)- Taryn

 

*Actors’ Equity Association

Babes in Ho-lland

During a sunless Pittsburgh winter in 1996, Ciara and Taryn connect over a shared love for R&B girl groups but quickly discover something deeper. While attending a predominantly white college, these two black students create their own bubble of self discovery, music and sanctuary in Ciara’s Holland Hall dorm room. However, the stress of love, financial hardship, and the persistent lack of privacy threaten to destroy it.

 

 

Playwright
Deneen Reynolds-Knott

Deneen Reynolds-Knott is a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2019-2020 Early-Career Writers’ Group and received a finalist grant from their 2018 Open-Application Commission. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and has developed work with Liberation Theatre Company’s Writing Residency, Project Y’s Playwrights Group, Rising Circle’s INKtank Development Lab and Frank Silvera Workshop’s 3in3 Playwright Residency. Her full-length play, Baton, was selected for the 2018 Premiere Play Festival and received a workshop reading at Premiere Stages, the 2017 Playfest at the Orlando Shakespeare Company, and was a finalist for the 2017 PlayPenn and Bay Area Playwrights conferences. Deneen’s play, Antepartum, was presented at the 2020 Fire This Time Festival as part of their signature ten-minute play program. She received her MFA in film from Columbia University.

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DIRECTOR: Dawn Monique Williams

DRAMATURG: Leigh Rondon-Davis

CONTENT EXPERTS: Sherrice Mojgani, Nikki Chery

PRODUCER: William J. Gregory

Director
Dawn Monique Williams

Dawn Monique Williams is Associate Artistic Director at Aurora Theatre Company. Recent directing credits include: The Piano Lesson, Bull in a China Shop, TiJean and His Brothers, Earthrise, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, The Secretaries (Willamette Week’s Top 10 Portland Theatre Productions of 2018), Merry Wives of Windsor, and Romeo and Juliet. Dawn’s worked in theatres abroad and across the US; awards include a Princess Grace Theatre Fellowship, a TCG Leadership U Residency Grant, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. Dawn is a proud member of SDC.

Dramaturg
Leigh Rondon-Davis

Leigh Rondon-Davis is a performer, visual artist, and dramaturg from both New York City and the Bay Area. They attended Wellesley College and was a member of Oakland’s Laney College Fusion Theatre Project. Leigh has performed at number of local theaters, including: Cutting Ball, FaultLine, Curran, and Magic Theatre. They have also assistant directed and dramaturged at Shotgun Players, Ubuntu Theater Project, PlayGround, Aurora Theatre Company, Crowded Fire, and Magic Theatre. Leigh currently works for and is a Company Member at Ubuntu Theater Project and Shotgun Players, and is a staff member and Resident Artist at Crowded Fire Theater.

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