It CAN Happen Here!
Performed: - 5-25 46th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101, Mar 06 - Mar 30, 2025
Category: Drama
A co-production between NPTC and Culture Lab LIC, It CAN Happen Here! weaves together three strands of storyline: the achievements of the Federal Theatre Project; the ground-breaking work of its fearless leader, Hallie Flanagan; and the political forces that destroyed it. It’s a collaborative masterpiece between five co-creators, an amazing design team, our hugely talented ensemble of ten. I am grateful and humbled to be the director in addition to one of the co-creators of a piece of theatre history with political resonance all too real today.
“If this first government theatre in our country had been less alive it might have lived longer. But I do believe anyone who worked in it regrets that it stood, from first to last, against reaction, against prejudice, against racial, religious and political intolerance. Anyone who thinks that those things do not need fighting for today is out of touch with reality.”
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Creative Team:
Direction: Katrin Hilbe
Producer & Dramaturgy: Melody Brooks
Choreographer & Movement Direction: Penelope Rose Deen
Production Design: Tess Howsam
Costume Design: Lisa Renée Jordan
Lighting Design: Sara Gosses
Sound Design & Projection Management: Andy Evan Cohen
Projections Design: Erwin Falcon
Puppet & Props Design, Graphics Design: Gaby FeBland
Stage Manager: Cat Gillespie
Assistant Stage Manager: Ximena Morellon
Technical Director: Josh Iacovelli
Cast: Theresa Rose, Nick Radu-Blackburn, Jomack Miranda, Allie Beltran, DJ Davis, Chase Lee, Max Bank, Emma Sarah Davis, Megan Lomax, Cheyenne Springette.
Photography: Al Foote III
