Festival Producer | Diana Buckhantz

Associate Festival Producer | Chris Schmidt

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 3:00pm

Except That it is God
by Harrison David Rivers

In a city in the South, Deshaun sells drugs, Frankie cleans hotel rooms, and Noble makes sandwiches. They’re young, smart, and going nowhere fast. Except That it is God is an exploration of stuckness and the divine forces – human or otherwise – that just might shift everything.


ARTISTIC TEAM
Director: Irvin Mason Jr
Dramaturg: Amani Starnes
Stage Manager: Sam Allen*
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Stage Directions: Sumaya Zeidat

CAST
Deshaun: Brandon Gill*
Frankie: Colby Nixon*
Noble: Elliot Sagay*
Press: W. Tré Davis*
Gloria: Courtney Sauls
June: Adrián Javier*
Stage Directions: Sumaya Zeidat

No intermission

Content Warning: Adult situations, profanity, sexual content

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

HARRISON DAVID RIVERS, Playwright (he/him)
Harrison David Rivers is an award-winning playwright, librettist and television writer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. His works include This Bitter Earth (Soho Theatre, Seattle Public, TheaterWorks Hartford, InterAct, About Face, Penumbra, New Conservatory Theatre Center), The Bandaged Place (Roundabout), The Salvagers (Yale Rep), Where Storms are Born (Williamstown), We Are Continuous (convergence-continuum, Diversionary, Uptown Players, NCTC, Geva, Williamstown) and A Christmas Carol (CenterREP, Geva), among others. His television credits include One Of Us Is Lying (Peacock), The Nevers (HBO) and Wytches (Amazon). He has developed projects with HBO and Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions. Harrison is a recipient of McKnight, Jerome and Van Lier Fellowships; residencies with Berkeley Rep, the Siena Art Institute, Geva, New York Theatre Workshop, Williamstown and Duke University; and is currently under commission from Yale Rep, MCC, Geva, Moton Museum/Waterworks Players and Minnesota Opera. harrisondavidrivers.com