“Easily one of the best of the year”—The Wall Street Journal
BY SAMUEL D. HUNTER
SEPTEMBER 28, 2024
7PM
Winner! Best Play – New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award!
Inside a cubicle in a bank in Twin Falls, Idaho, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly choose to bring one another into their fragile worlds. Ryan, who is white and divorced, wants to buy a plot of land that his family used to own in the hopes of making a better life for his daughter. Keith, who is Black, gay, and also single, is looking to adopt his foster daughter Willa before her relatives can steal her away. With humor, empathy, and wrenching honesty, playwright Samuel D. Hunter commingles these two lives in a story that is both small and big at the same time.
CAST
Keith
K. Laurel Manning
Ryan
Paul Sparks
Directed by James Yaegashi
K. LORREL MANNING
K. Lorrel Manning is an award-winning writer, director, actor, and musician who works in both theatre and film. His critically-acclaimed solo show, LOST...FOUND, recently had its international debut at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His short film The Red Shoe, recently won the Hearts, Minds & Souls Grand Prize Award at the 2024 Rhode Island International Film Festival. He is currently prepping his second narrative feature film, Sheila & The Punk Rock. Manning currently teaches filmmaking, screenwriting and advanced acting at Sarah Lawrence College.
PAUL SPARKS
Paul Sparks is an acclaimed actor well known for his roles as gangster Mickey Doyle in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire, writer Thomas Yates in the Netflix political drama series House of Cards, attorney David Tellis in the Starz anthology drama series The Girlfriend Experience, and a recurring role in the limited series The Night Of. Sparks has also starred in the films Deception (2008), Afterschool (2008), The Missing Person (2008), Mud (2012), Parkland (2013), Stealing Cars (2015), Thoroughbreds (2017), and The Greatest Showman (2017). Sparks has also performed on and off Broadway as Henry in Grey House (Broadway, 2023), Vladimir in Waiting for Godot (Off-Broadway, 2023), Barrow Street’s Nassim (Off-Broadway, 2018), the New Group’s Buried Child (Off-Broadway, 2016) and more!
JAMES YAEGASHI
DIRECTOR
Special thanks to Carolyn Best for reading stage directions!