Morning Journal is a pyrotechnic fugue in dramatic form, set in a Manhattan apartment handed down over the course of a decade.
It follows six young women (and their suitors) as they attempt to accept the audacity of pleasure, the frailty of love, and the mysticism of surrender. Morning Journal is Gasda’s most experimental play yet, an exercise in form that attempts to solve the riddle of his earlier work: how do you love freely when you know that eventually it will kill you?
CAST:
Anastasia Wolfe (Hazel)
Asli Mumtas (Celine)
Nicki Kissil (Talia)
Helena Frances Dreyer (Marley)
Izabel Mar (Kaylee)
Johnathan Fernández (Nico)
Merlinda Akindele (Zoe)
Agnes Enkhtamir (Eleanor)
Sophia Englesberg (June)
Rebecca Gever (Abby)
Angela Gomez (Maureen)
Eric Olsson (Alex)
ALTERNATES:
Tessa Weinland, Elisabeth Malanga, Harriet Veltkamp, Katie Kane, Alex Gambee, Healy Knight, Felix Teich, Renee-Nicole Powell** (Performs Zoe 5/10 & 5/11), Shea Grant, Yvette Moore, James Padric, Henry Lynch, Nick Walther
CREW:
Matthew Gasda (Playwright & Director)
Jennifer May Reiland (Set Design)
Olivia Rienerston (Costume Design)
Sam J. Venis (Dramaturgy)
Musa Gurnis (Assistant Director)
H.G. Welp (Music)
Callan Shattuck (Stage Manager/AD)
Morning Journal is produced by Sophia Englesberg, Renee-Nicole Powell, Anastasia Wolfe, and Henry Lynch.