Sneak Peek: Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe Dramaturg/Literary Manager and Joseph Pinzon Casting Director

Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zoe: I think that when you walk out of a play, it's exciting to have a bunch of thoughts that are all coalescing. You have things that you want to say. But I think that for me, I want for plays to continue to resonate, so that in a week, an image occurs to you, and it's because you went to the theater, a piece of text you will still carry. That's one of the things that I want for audiences to have, to take something with you, and to let it be with you everywhere you go. And then the other thing I also always think about, like my collegiate, put my professor hat on is I think that theater is also about citizenship. For me, all theater is about citizenship. It is about how to be in the world. Who do we want to be in the world, in relationship to one another, in relationship to our nation, right? So these big questions about how we ought to behave or who we ought to be, and so I really hope that if the play can shake you closer to a state of being that is, I don't know, more towards grace, or compassion, or love, and maybe you already have enough of that, and you think that your heart can't crack open further with more love, and you leave this play, and something broke, and you realize you love deeper than you thought you could? Success! Right? So how does this play like invite you more fully into like your relationship with self or the type of citizen that you want to be in the world? That's what I always want people to walk away from any work of theater that they attend.