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.”

— Laura Collins-Hughes,
The New York Times