SPECIAL THANKS TO
Festival Producer Marg Helgenberger

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 7:30pm

Heléne
by Lisa D’Amour

Two years after the murder of her daughter, Heléne is called to take a road trip by her daughter's ghost. As she drives from her home near Baton Rouge, LA to Brooklyn, New York, Heléne arcs through the many siloed communities of America seeking answers, renewal, and new ground. As her ghost daughter pushes her deeper into our fraught American hellscape, Heléne renews her own sense of agency and her fierce determination to LOVE.

Please be advised: This production contains use of strobe/flashing lights

ARTISTIC TEAM
Director: Jennifer Chang
Dramaturg: Sarah Rose Leonard
Stage Manager: Brandon Hong Cheng*
Casting Director: Nicole Arbusto
Intern: Ananya Badami

CAST
Heléne: Mia Barron*
Aimée: Rachel Keller*
Jenny: Anna LaMadrid*
Fred: Joe Holt*
Drew: Will Tranfo*
Jill: Jocelyn Towne*
Manny: Michael Manuel*
Brenner: Will Tranfo*
Mary Ann: Anna LaMadrid*
Zack: Michael Manuel*
Belle: Jocelyn Towne*
Brooke: Anna LaMadrid*
Dion: Joe Holt*
Stage Directions: Ananya Badami

Content Warming: Mentions and discussions of murder, gun violence, addiction, depression, childbirth and abortion
Sexual situations, homophobic slurs

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

LISA D’AMOUR, Playwright
Lisa D’Amour is a playwright and interdisciplinary collaborator from New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in a world of ritual, activism, group spectacle and care, all of which continue to thrive in her work. Lisa's plays have produced by theaters across the country, including MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Broadway, Playwrights Horizons (NYC), Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago), Woolly Mammoth Theater (Washington D.C.), Catastrophic Theater (Houston) and ArtSpot Productions (New Orleans). Lisa’s company PearlDamour makes interdisciplinary, often site-specific works, most recently premiering Ocean Filibuster, a genre-crashing human-ocean showdown (American Repertory Theater +  touring). Lisa’s play Detroit was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Susan Smith Blackburn prize, and she’s received two OBIE Awards.  She has received the Alpert Award for the Arts, the Steinberg Playwright Award and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. She is currently the Distinguished Professor of Playwriting at the University of Houston.