Alma Baya
Written and directed by Edward Einhorn
An original sci-fi absurdist drama, available in-person, streaming, and on demand.
ORIGINALLY PERFORMED:
August 13 - 28, 2021
at A.R.T./New York’s
Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre
502 W. 53rd Street (at 10th Ave)
Alma and Baya lives on a hostile planet in a pod designed to sustain just them. When a refugee arrives from another pod, they have to balance survival versus compassion.
Cast A: Sheleah Harris, Rivera Reese, Ann Marie Yoo
Cast B: Maggie Cino, JaneAnne Halter, Nina Mann
*We had two alternating casts, as an extra precaution against Covid. The productions, however, are not identical. Each has its own character and style.
Set Designer: Mike Mroch
Costume Designer: Ramona Ponce
Lighting Designer: Federico Restrepo
Sound Designer: Mark Bruckner
Livestream Designer: Iben Cenholt
Stage Manager: Karen Oughtred
Assistant Director/ASM: Becca Silbert
Box Office Manager: Berit Johnson
Production Assistants: Caleb Barron, Sarah Grant, Glafira May, and Sarah Morse.
Publicity: Emily Owens PR
For information on the A.R.T./New York Theatres including directions and accessibility information, please visit www.art-newyork.org/your-visit.
Performance space for this production was subsidized by the A.R.T./New York Theatres Rental Subsidy Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).
This program is supported, in part, by
the Schapiro Fund;
the Leon Levy Foundation COVID Relief Fund, administered by A.R.T./New York;
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Graphic Design by Clinton Corbett
Reviews
"Waiting for Godot meets The Twilight Zone in this masterpiece of absurdist theatre…Refreshingly original theatre flawlessly performed.”
— Erin Kahn,
Stage Buddy
“A claustrophobic, vastly entertaining sci-fi parable for this moment in time, an absurdist look at what comes next.”
— Mark Rifkin,
This Week in New York
“[A] bleak, humor-flecked tale...set in a world plagued by human problems that eternally replicate — because survival is a brutal business, and selfishness is one of our dominant traits.”