Alliance Theatre

Afterwords: English
2023-09-16 14:30, 2023-09-02 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Hertz Stage, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, 30309, United States
2:30 PM // Performance of English on the Hertz Stage
Post-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage

Join us for a post-show discussion with the cast of English.
Before Play discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.

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Community Conversation: To Stay or To Leave
2023-09-09 14:30 | Hertz Stage, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, 30309, United States
2:30 PM // Performance of English on the Hertz Stage
Post-Show Discussion on the Hertz Stage
To Stay or To Leave – Immigration and Identity in/from Iran
Do you ever think about who you would be if you never had to think about staying or leaving? – English
Join us for a community conversation about immigration, identity, and language at the heart of Sanaz Toossi’s play English. This post-show dialogue will feature Dr. Fay Borhani, Darya Fard, and Marjan Yavari, guest speakers who have immigrated from Iran at different moments in recent history. They will reflect on the production and their journey of working and living in a new language and culture.
Community Conversations are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.

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Fay Borhani – Economist and Ph.D. student in Physics
Dr. Fay Borhani came to the U.S. to pursue a degree in economics at Pennsylvania State University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics in 2016. Since then, she has worked both in academia and industry as an economist. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student of physics at Georgia Institute of Technology with a focus on topological properties of quantum materials.

Darya Fard – Artist
Darya Fard is a multidisciplinary artist with a printmaking/installation concentration whose work examines metaphorical and symbolic mythical creatures inspired by Persian poetry, mythology, and psychological studies. Darya received her first MFA degree in painting in Tehran, Iran, and an MFA degree in 2022 from Georgia State University, where she continues to teach as a visiting lecturer. She is the recipient of the Atlanta Midtown Alliance residency program 2023-2024.

Marjan Yavari – Community Advocate
Marjan Yavari is an entrepreneur, investor, and a member of the Baha’i community. She has a passion for philanthropy and strives personally and professionally toward community building efforts specifically focused on oneness, justice, and equality.

YP Meetup at the Alliance: The Shining
2023-09-15 18:30 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
6:30 – 10:00 PM // North Alcove Bar – Second Floor, Memorial Arts Building
Join us for an Atlanta Opera and Alliance Theatre Young Professionals meetup before our co-production of The Shining!
Gather in the Woodruff Arts Center’s North Alcove to connect before the show. Grab a drink at the bar and meet fellow young professionals before seeing The Shining. YP members are also encouraged to join the Before Play across the hall in the Event Room. This discussion will start at 7:15pm and features a discussion with The Shining‘s composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, and is hosted by Tomer Zvulun, General & Artistic Director of The Atlanta Opera.
This event is free to Alliance Theatre Young Professional Members and includes one drink ticket. Reserve up to two complimentary tickets for this event by RSVPing at the link below. Not a YP Member? Join today!

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Before Play: The Shining
2023-09-15 19:15 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
7:15 PM // Pre-Show Discussion in the Event Room – Second Floor, Memorial Arts Building
8:00 PM // Performance of The Shining on the Coca-Cola Stage

Join us for a pre-show discussion with composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell of The Shining. This conversation will be hosted by Tomer Zvulun, General & Artistic Director of The Atlanta Opera.
Before Play discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.

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Afterwords: The Shining
2023-09-24 15:00, 2023-09-17 15:00 | Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
3:00 PM // Performance of The Shining on the Coca-Cola Stage
Post-Show Discussion on the Coca-Cola Stage

Join us for a post-show discussion with the cast and conductor of The Shining, moderated by a member of the Alliance Theatre’s artistic team.
After Words discussions are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.

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Christmas Carol Weekend Sale
2024-09-13 00:01, 2024-09-15 23:59 | Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
For three days only, tickets to select performances of A Christmas Carol will be 25%* off!
The Alliance Theatre’s beloved production A Christmas Carol returns to The Coca-Cola Stage with its stunning new adaptation, featuring a brilliantly reimagined set design and striking new costumes. Described as “high art of the season… a nostalgic feast for the eyes,” by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, audiences will be transported to the streets of London to revisit the timeless redemption story of Ebenezer Scrooge, told with beautiful live music and an all-star cast. Join the Alliance Theatre for one of Atlanta’s most treasured holiday traditions.

Christmas Carol Weekend Sale is valid for the following performances:
Saturday, November 9 // 7:00 PM Sunday, November 10 // 7:00 PM Wednesday, November 13 // 7:00 PM Thursday, November 14 // 7:00 PM Friday, November 15 // 7:00 PM Sunday, November 17 // 2:00 PM Sunday, November 17 // 7:00 PM Thursday, November 21 // 7:00 PM Friday, November 22 // 7:00 PM Saturday, November 23 // 2:00 PM Saturday, November 23 // 7:00 PM Tuesday, November 26 // 7:00 PM Friday, November 29 // 7:00 PM Saturday, November 30 // 7:00 PM Sunday, December 1 // 7:00 PM Wednesday, December 4 // 7:00 PM Thursday, December 5 // 7:00 PM Sunday, December 8 // 7:00 PM Wednesday, December 11 // 7:00 PM Sunday, December 15 // 7:00 PM
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Tickets may be purchased online or by calling the box office** at 404-733-4600. Use promo code ACCSALE25.
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*Offer is valid from Friday, SEP 13 at 12:01am to Sunday, SEP 15 at 11:59pm. Not valid on previous purchases. Offer is limited to 4 tickets per order. Offer is valid for the following performances: 11/9, 11/10, 11/13, 11/14, 11/15, 11/17 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm, 11/21, 11/22, 11/23 at 2:00pm & 7:00pm, 11/26, 11/29, 11/30 at 7:00pm, 12/1 at 7:00pm, 12/4, 12/5, 12/8 at 7:00pm, 12/11, 12/15 at 7:00pm.
**Box office hours are Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00 – 5:00pm.

Amal Walks Across America: We Have A Dream
2023-10-08 15:00 | Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
Little Amal – whose name means ‘hope’ in Arabic – is a 12-foot puppet of a refugee Syrian child who has traveled to 13 countries. This fall she journeys 6,000 miles from Boston to San Diego and visits 35 cities and towns in the United States.
See Little Amal during her special visit to the Woodruff Arts Center beginning on the Sifly Piazza. Inspired by the new book “We Dream a World ” by Atlanta activist Yolanda Renee King, Alliance Theatre’s teen ensemble will present a new performance piece with Little Amal that explores issues impacting our youth, and together, they will carry forward a message of hope for a different world in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Special guest artists will include Yolanda Renee King, High Museum’s Teen Team, Global Village Project Chorus, Alif Institute’s Youth Drummers, and the South Atlanta Sonic Boom Drumline.
In conjunction with the performance, the High Museum’s Teen Team will host an art-making activity that encourages the public to make their own protest posters to bring on the march with Little Amal. Visit the Ann Cox Chambers Wing Lobby of the High Museum between 12pm-3pm to participate.
Presented by Alliance Theatre and High Museum of Art. In partnership with the Global Village Project, Refuge Coffee Co., Alif Institute, and the Mayor’s Office of International & Immigrant Affairs.
Amal Walks Across America is produced by The Walk Productions in association with the Handspring Puppet Company.
Find more information on all of Little Amal’s stops in Atlanta here.

Director: Samantha Provenzano
Movement Consultant: George Staib
Special Guest: Yolanda Renee King
Featured Artists: Alliance Theatre’s Teen Ensemble, High Museum’s Teen Team, Adrienne Ocfemia, Global Village Project Chorus, Alif Institute Youth Drummers, South Atlanta Sonic Boom Drumline
Costume Design: April Andrews
Sound Design: Multiband Studios
Props: Suzanne Cooper Morris

YP Meetup: A Christmas Carol
2023-11-29 18:30 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
6:30 – 10:00 PM // North Alcove Bar – Second Floor, Memorial Arts Building
Join us for a Young Professionals meetup before our favorite holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol!
Gather in the Woodruff Arts Center’s North Alcove to connect before the show. Enjoy our festive hot chocolate bar — complete with fun mix-ins! — before mingling with fellow young professionals. Then, be delighted by A Christmas Carol‘s story of redemption and good, old-fashioned holiday cheer.
This event is free to Alliance Theatre Young Professional Members. Reserve up to two complimentary tickets for this event by RSVPing at the link below. Not a YP Member? Join today!

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ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence
2023-11-06 19:00 | Selig Family Black Box Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
7:00 PM // Selig Family Black Box Theatre – Third Floor, Memorial Arts Building
Directed by Maya Lawrence

ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence calls on teens to confront gun violence by creating new works of theatre that will spark critical conversations and meaningful action in communities across the country. This year the Alliance Theatre Teen Ensemble will stage readings of a script comprised of six (6) new 10-minute plays by teen writers confronting gun violence as part of the ENOUGH! Nationwide Reading.
This event is free to the public – advanced registration is requested.
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A Christmas Carol: Family Days
2023-12-09 14:30, 2023-12-02 14:30, 2023-12-16 14:30 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
Holiday Crafts // pre-show and at intermission in the Galleria, Memorial Arts Building
Q&A Discussion // post-show on the Coca-Cola Stage
Enhance your family’s experience at A Christmas Carol by attending one of our three family performances!
At each performance, a holiday card craft will be available pre-show and during intermission. Following the performance, stay after the show to meet the cast for a special Q&A where actors will answer questions from the audience. These performances are free with your ticket to A Christmas Carol.
These activities are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.

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Into the Burrow: Family Days
2023-11-20 11:15 | Hertz Stage, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, 30309, United States
Activities for Families // 11:15 – 11:45 AM in the Hertz Stage Lobby
Join us for lobby activities engaging themes from Into the Burrow! Educators from the Hand, Heart + Soul Project will guide children and caregivers through activities that explore land stewardship and food sustainability. Create a birthday cake out of fresh greens and learn more about local farmers in ATL!
Community Partner

The Hand, Heart + Soul Project cultivates wellness in Clayton County through equitable access to nutrient-dense foods, holistic education, and advocacy. Visit handheartsoulproject.org to learn more about their work.
These activities are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.
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Backpack Buddies Food Drive 2024
2024-11-09 - 2024-12-24 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
Help fight childhood hunger! Bring your donations when you attend performances of A Christmas Carol November 9 through December 24, 2024, benefitting Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta.
Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta is seeking the following items:

Vegetables (14-16 oz cans)
Fruits (14-16 oz cans)
Beans (14-16 oz cans)
Pastas (boxed)

Donations can be dropped off in the Upper & Lower Coca-Cola Stage Lobby, as well as at the Box Office.

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Backpack Buddies Food Drive
2025-11-15 - 2025-12-24 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
Help fight childhood hunger! Bring your donations when you attend performances of A Christmas Carol November 15 – December 24, benefitting Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta.
Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta is seeking the following items:

Vegetables (14-16 oz cans)
Fruits (14-16 oz cans)
Beans (14-16 oz cans)
Pastas (boxed)

Donations can be dropped off in the Upper & Lower Coca-Cola Stage Lobby, as well as at the Box Office.

Learn more about Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta.

Into the Burrow: Family Days
2023-12-02 14:15 | Hertz Stage, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, 30309, United States
Activities for Families // 2:15 – 2:45 PM & 3:00 – 3:30 PM in the Hertz Stage Lobby
Join us for lobby activities engaging themes from Into the Burrow! Educators from the Hand, Heart + Soul Project will guide children and caregivers through activities that explore land stewardship and food sustainability. Create a birthday cake out of fresh greens and learn more about local farmers in ATL!
Community Partner

The Hand, Heart + Soul Project cultivates wellness in Clayton County through equitable access to nutrient-dense foods, holistic education, and advocacy. Visit handheartsoulproject.org to learn more about their work.
These activities are free for ticket holders. No RSVP required.
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Pictures with Santa 2024
2024-11-26 - 2024-12-21 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
NOV 26 – DEC 21 // North Alcove Lobby – Second Floor
Get your pictures with Santa! Santa Charles will be spreading holiday cheer at performances of A Christmas Carol November 26 through December 21. Pictures available 1 hour before and immediately after select performances for $20.
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Sunday, December 1 // 2:00pm & 7:00pm Get Matinee Show Tickets Get Evening Show Tickets
Saturday, December 14 // 7:00pm Get Show Tickets
Sunday, December 15 // 2:00pm & 7:00pm Get Matinee Show Tickets Get Evening Show Tickets
Wednesday, December 18 // 7:00pm Get Show Tickets
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Saturday, December 21 // 2:00pm & 7:00pm Get Matinee Show Tickets Get Evening Show Tickets

Sign Interpreted Performance: A Christmas Carol
2023-12-16 14:30 | Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
2:30pm performance
Join us for a sign interpreted performance of A Christmas Carol!
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Sign Interpreted Performance: Fat Ham
2024-05-10 20:00 | Hertz Stage, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, 30309, United States
8:00pm // Performance of Fat Ham

Join us for a sign interpreted performance of Fat Ham.
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Sign Interpreted Performance: A Tale of Two Cities
2024-03-16 20:00 | Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
8:00pm // Performance of A Tale of Two Cities

Join us for a sign interpreted performance of A Tale of Two Cities.
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Sign Interpreted Performance: Furlough's Paradise
2024-02-23 20:00 | Hertz Stage, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, 30309, United States
8:00pm // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise

Join us for a sign interpreted performance of Furlough’s Paradise.
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Sign Interpreted Performance: The Preacher's Wife
2024-06-08 14:30 | Alliance Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
2:30pm // Performance of The Preacher’s Wife

Join us for a sign interpreted performance of The Preacher’s Wife.
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Alliance/Kendeda Week: Final Boarding Call
2025-02-27 18:00 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
6:00 PM // Rehearsal Hall A – Third FloorBy Stefani Kuo 郭佳怡, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale UniversityDirected by Ibi Owolabi
Alliance Theatre presents FINAL BOARDING CALL, one of four free, staged readings during the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Week.
Final Boarding Call tells the stories of the most recent Hong Kong protests. The play revolves around the interconnected stories of seven characters whose backgrounds and perspectives run the spectrum – a protesting brother and flight attendant sister struggling to keep her job; a Mainland Chinese mother and her estranged Hong Kong daughter; a non-Cantonese-speaking reporter and her Indian partner; and an American expat CEO and Hong Kong lover living in the shadows. The play begins and ends with a flight, an entrance into the Hong Kong protests, and how the politics we see on the news every day affects the citizens of Hong Kong in their day-to-day lives.
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BIOS
Stefani Kuo 郭佳怡 (she/her) is a poet/playwright/performer from Hong Kong and Taiwan. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. Candidate in Playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, French, and English, she is interested in crafting multicultural, multilingual narratives for an international audience. She has been an awardee of a MacDowell Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship at PWC, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship at Lanesboro Arts Centre, Many Voices Fellowship at PWC, Van Lier New Voices Fellowship. She is currently under commission with the Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, and has received commissions from Rubin Museum, Roundhouse Theater, and Yangtze Repertory.
Final Boarding Call was the winner of the 2021 Lead Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers’ Prize. Her play Wake was presented as part of the Langston Hughes Festival 2022 at Yale. Her play Pearl’s Beauty Salon was produced in May 2024 as part of the Carlotta Festival at Yale. She is currently a member of Young Blood, EST’s Writers group, and was a member of Interstate-73, Page 73’s Writers Group, in 2019. Her work in creative non-fiction, poetry, and translation have appeared in The New York Times, China Hands, Electric Literature, and more. As a performer, she was most recently seen in Arlington by Enda Walsh, directed by Bobbin Ramsey, as well as her one-woman show Moonie at the Yale Cabaret. stefanikuo.com // For more on Hong Kong parachute.substack.com
Ibi Owolabi is a recent alum of Drama League Stage Directing Fellowship, with a residency at Manhattan Theatre Club that led to her recent Broadway debut as the AD on Cost of Living. Her work has been seen at 7 Stages, Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Theatre Emory, The Weird Sisters Theatre Project, and the DC Black Theatre Festival. Ibi is a graduate of Georgia Southern University, the Actors Express directing internship, and the Kenny Leon fellowship. Ibi’s recent productions include Intimate Apparel at Actor’s Express, the world premiere of Good Bad People at True Colors’ Theatre, The Light at University of South Carolina, and Poof! with The Keen Company.

Palefsky Collision Project MLK Day Performance
2024-01-15 15:00 | Rich Theatre, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
Each MLK Day, young artists from the Palefsky Collision Project reconvene to reimagine their summer performance through the lens of letters to Dr. King. Directed by Patrick McColery in collaboration with Pearl Cleage, Distinguished Artist in Residence, this year’s performance of Dear Dr. King will re-explore Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard by Pearl Cleage.
MLK Day performances will take place in-person on Monday, January 15, 2024:

11 AM at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, The Glenn (free with museum admission)
3 PM at the Woodruff Arts Center, Rich Theatre (free with RSVP required)

Alliance/Kendeda Week: I Love Strangers
2025-02-25 18:00 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
6:00 PM // Rehearsal Hall A – Third FloorBy Nurit Chinn, Brooklyn CollegeDirected by Avital Shira
Alliance Theatre presents I LOVE STRANGERS, one of four free, staged readings during the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Week.
In three simultaneous stories extending from New York to the West Bank, six Jews reckon with their at-times magical, at-times destructive desire to be close to one another. I LOVE STRANGERS, inspired by Adrienne Rich’s poem “Yom Kippur 1984,” asks what it means to be a Jew in solitude and in community.
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BIOS
Nurit Chinn is a playwright from London, currently based in Brooklyn. Her plays include: I Love Strangers (BC New Play Lab reading at Lincoln Center; Finalist, 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Competition; Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill NPC 2024), Godbird (BAM Fisher, Weasel Festival 2024), Best of Three (Etcetera Theatre, Camden Fringe Festival) and Boaz, an adaptation of Nicole Krauss’s short story, “I Am Asleep But My Heart is Awake.”
Nurit is a 2024/5 New Jewish Culture Fellow and an alum of the Royal Court Theatre’s Writers’ Group. Her shorter works have been staged at VAULT Festival and Dixon Place. In 2025, she will be the Playwright-in-Residence at Centro Primo Levi in New York. Nurit teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College. BA: Yale University; MFA: Brooklyn College.
Avital Shira (she/her) is an Atlanta-based director who is passionate about the intersection of community, story, and social impact. She currently teaches in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she is also leading the development of a new degree at the intersection of arts, innovation, and creative technologies, as part of her work as a strategist in the Office of the Associate Vice Provost for the Arts. Avital has an M.F.A. in Directing and certificate in arts administration from Boston University and a B.A. in Theater Studies and English from Yale University. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, an associate member of the SDC, and a member of the Out of Hand Theater advisory board. Avital loves developing new work, and recent development workshops include work by playwrights Sarah Mantell and E.M. Lewis.

Alliance/Kendeda Week: We Borrowed Brokenness
2025-02-24 18:00 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
6:00 PM // Rehearsal Hall A – Third FloorBy Yilong Liu, The Juilliard SchoolDirected by Baron Vaughn
Alliance Theatre presents WE BORROWED BROKENNESS, one of four free, staged readings during the 2025 Alliance/Kendeda Week.
Five strangers gather at the tail end of Brooklyn, chasing the dream of running the New York City Marathon. Except that they aren’t really strangers, and this isn’t really their dream. They are a group of organ transplant recipients determined to honor their donor’s dying wish – but each of them is also running a race of their own.
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BIOS
Yilong Liu is an internationally produced playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. A recent graduate of The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, his play The Book of Mountains and Seas received the Lambda Literary Award for Drama and won Second Place in the BBC Popcorn Writing Award at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His play Good Enemy premiered off-Broadway at Minetta Lane Theatre as part of Audible Theater’s 2022–2023 season. Yilong was an artist-in-residence at Sala Beckett in Barcelona with PlayCo in 2024, where his play We Borrowed Brokenness was translated and performed in Catalan.
Born and raised in China, Yilong earned his MFA from the University of Hawai‘i. He is a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center and has received fellowships from the Playwrights Realm and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. His work has been developed with Ojai Playwrights Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood, Kennedy Center, Space on Ryder Farm, and more. His accolades include the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. Currently, he’s under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club’s Sloan Initiative.

Baron Vaughn (he/him) is a force to be reckoned with in the world of entertainment with a career that spans live comedy, acting, writing, and directing. As an actor, he’s best known as “Bud”, sharing the screen with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin on the hit Netflix series, Grace & Frankie. Baron also lends his voice as “Tom Servo” in the recent seasons of cult-hit, Mystery Science Theater 3000.
He co-created and co-hosted the groundbreaking Comedy Central showcase variety series The New Negroes with Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle. The show shined a light on both established and rising Black artists in comedy and music. In 2020, Baron continued to push boundaries with Call & Response, a limited series produced by Blavity and Funny or Die. Together with frequent collaborator Open Mike Eagle, he tackled pressing issues of the day in a series that was both thought-provoking and hilarious. Baron’s deeply personal project, Fatherless, directed by the award-winning Dawn Porter, explores the impact of absent fathers on families and communities while he also endeavored to finally connect with his own absent father.
As a stand-up comedian, Baron has been entertaining audiences for more than 20 years. He has two influential comedy recordings, Raised by Cable and Blaxistential Crisis, both available for streaming on all platforms. Baron’s been showcased on Comedy Central’s The Half Hour and The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, as well as on HBO’s 2 Dope Queens, Showtime’s SXSW Comedy, and TBS’ Conan. Baron’s headlining performances at major clubs and colleges throughout the US have led him to perform at renowned festivals including Just for Laughs (Montreal & Vancouver), Life Is Beautiful (Las Vegas), and the New York Comedy Festival. Baron, along with Open Mike Eagle, has also toured the live version of the showcase The New Negroes taking it to numerous festivals, clubs, and theaters across the country.
Baron has punched-up shows produced by IFC and Dreamworks, was selected for the inaugural 2016 Sundance New Voices Lab, and of course, wrote on both The New Negroes and MST3K. Baron’s directorial debut, the short film “So Much To Do” featuring Toni Trucks, can be seen in the horror anthology, Scare Package, on Shudder. He’s currently working on a solo show commissioned by the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY where he’s also artist-in-residence.
Baron holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University.

College Night: Furlough's Paradise
2024-02-23 18:00 | The Woodruff Arts Center, Memorial Arts Building, 1280 Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA, 30309, United States
6:00 PM // Check-in and Dinner
6:30 PM //Social Activity
8:00 PM // Performance of Furlough’s Paradise

College students are invited to our annual College Night Event before a performance of Furlough’s Paradise. Hosted by the Alliance Theatre’s Spelman Leadership Interns, this event includes dinner and a special activity before the performance.
All college students are welcome. Get $15 tickets with promo code COLLEGENIGHT24 below.
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