Funnyhouse of A Negro



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Stage Manager
May 20th - June 1st, 2020
[Cancelled due to the Pandemic]

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NYU Tisch, All Department Festival  
Abe Burrows Theatre
Renders by Gaya Chatterjee & Jessica Wall

Set Designer: Gaya Chatterjee
Costume Designer:
Sharone Malka︎︎︎
Lighting Designer:
Jessica Wall
Sound Designer:
Chris Darbassie
Production Stage Manager: Evangeline Whitlock
Stage Manager: Alicia Cabrera

Funnyhouse of a Negro is a modern classic about the student Sarah, a young black woman living in New York City and her search for her identity in a very complex, warring, and fractured world. This search is manifested in her many selves: Queen Vicoria, the Duchess of Hapsburg, Patrice Lumumba and Jesus Christ. She was a bastard child of cultures that were not her own, despite being deeply ingrained in her. Cultural Schisms and racial America are at the forefront of a play dismantling the romanticism of race and shining a light on the depth of the damage institutionalized racism has inflicted.