the ripple, the wave that carried me home
- Written by Christina Anderson
- Directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene
Christina Anderson’s plays include: How to Catch Creation, This Part of His Life Blooms, and Good Goods.
Her work has been produced across the country by theaters such as Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and Yale Rep. A Tony-nominated writer for Best Book of a Musical, Anderson has received the Windham-Campbell Prize, Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Horton Foote Prize, MacDowell fellowship, and the United States Artists Fellowship, among many other honors. She is the author of Three Plays by Christina Anderson, a collection of her work published by Tripwire Harlot Press.
Tiffany Nichole Greene is a recent Obie Award recipient, three time New York Times Critic’s Pick. Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab alum, member of SDC, and an MFA graduate of Brown University/ Trinity Rep. She’s an aggressive explorer of humanity. She finds Truth in the Absurd and finds “Realism” to be our hiding place; she finds it all to be very human.
Recent credits include Proof, Broadway (Associate); FROZEN, Children’s Theatre Company; The Scenarios, Studio Theatre; Bad Kreyòl, world premiere by Dominique Morisseau, Signature Theatre (NYT Critic’s Pick); Black Cypress Bayou, Geffen Playhouse; Covenant, world premiere, Roundabout Theatre Company (NYT Critic’s Pick, Obie Award for Direction); Rent, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Hamilton (Resident Director); 53% OF, Second Stage Theater; Ohio State Murders, Goodman Theatre; Lydia R. Diamond’s Whiterly Negotiations and Lynn Nottage’s What Are The Things I Need To Remember, Octopus Theatricals (NYT Critic’s Pick).
It’s 1960s Kansas, and Janice’s parents are fighting for the integration of public swimming pools — a fierce civil rights struggle that overshadows her childhood and drives a wedge between Janice and her family. It’s also thirty years later, when Janice is asked to speak at a ceremony honoring her father, forced to reckon with the scars of a past she has tried to forget. A piercing, theatrically vivid story about the personal toll of fighting for justice, and the ultimate challenge of forgiveness.
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Cast
Marinda Anderson
Alana Raquel Bowers
Biko Eisen-Martin
Crystal Lucas-Perry
Fifth show at Playwrights Horizons! Broadway: Yellow Face. Off-Broadway: The Treasurer, Bella: An American Tall Tale, A Life, Far from Heaven (Playwrights Horizons); Public Charge, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mobile Unit), Teenage Dick, Miss You Like Hell (The Public); Merry Me (NYTW), You Will Get Sick (Roundabout), Sandblasted (Vineyard), The Cake (MTC). Regional: Airness (Humana); Three Sisters (Playmaker’s Rep); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Intimate Apparel (Dorset Theatre Festival). TV: “Your Friends and Neighbors,” “Furious,” “A League of Their Own,” “Evil,” “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” “New Amsterdam.” One half of the musical parody duo act, The Incredible Drunkertons. BFA: Howard University. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program. marindaanderson.com
Playwrights Horizons debut! Broadway: Chicken and Biscuits (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: The Loved Ones (Irish Repertory Theatre), Cold War Choir Practice (MCC, Clubbed Thumb, Page 73); The Miser (Moliere in the Park); Bernarda’s Daughters (Signature); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T./New York Theater, the Public, BAM). Regional: The Comeuppance (Woolly Mammoth, The Wilma); What To Send Up… (Woolly Mammoth, ART). Off-Off Broadway: SCRAPS (the Flea). Film/TV: "There She Goes", "Fantasy Life", “Dr. Death”, "FBI: Most Wanted", “Best Medicine” (currently). Producer credits: The Black Wolfe Tone (Irish Rep, Fishamble in Dublin, Ireland), “The Transatlantic Commission” with Irish Rep and the Apollo. Theater Producers of Color (TPOC) alum. NYU Tisch Drama alum.
Playwrights Debut. Off Broadway: MCC, world premieres of Table17 (Audelco Winner) and Soft (Lortel and Audelco nominations); The Public, Labyrinth, Rattlestick, EST, 59E59 and more. Regional: Geffen, Old Globe, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest, Studio, Arden, SyracuseStage and more.TV/Film: “The Chi”, By Any Means, Them That’s Not, Buck, “East New York” ,“Modern Love” , “Ghost” “Blue Bloods” . “Dietland”, Testament: BA/MAT: Brown University; MFA: National Theatre Conservatory. @saybiko
Playwrights Horizons Debut. Broadway: Ain’t No Mo’ (Tony Award® nomination, Dorian Award), 1776 (John Adams). Off-Broadway: includes Pericles (Obie Award), The Great Privation (Obie Award), Ain’t No Mo’ (Lucille Lortel Award), A Bright Room Called Day (Antonyo Award nomination), A Sign of the Times (AUDELCO Award nomination). Film/Television: includes Law & Order: SVU, And Just Like That…, The Last O.G., Goodnight Mommy. Education: MFA, NYU Tisch Graduate Acting. Instagram: @CrystalLucasPerry
Creative
Christina Anderson
AuthorTiffany Nichole Green
DirectorLawrence E. Moten III
Scenic DesignerRodrigo Muñoz
Costume DesignerLap Chi Chu
Lighting DesignerChris Darbassie
Sound DesignerEaron Nealey
Wig & Hair DesignerShiku Thuo
Production Stage ManagerDestiny Lilly, CSA
Casting DirectorChristina Anderson’s plays include: How to Catch Creation, This Part of His Life Blooms, and pen/man/ship.
She’s written over twenty plays, which have been produced across North America by theaters such as Goodman Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Obsidian Theatre, Kansas City Rep, Portland Center Stage, and Yale Rep. A Tony nominated writer for Outstanding Book of a Broadway musical, Anderson has received the 2024 Steinberg Playwright Award, a MacDowell fellowship, and the United States Artists Fellowship, among many other honors. She is the author of Three Plays, a collection of her work published by Tripwire Harlot Press.
Tiffany Nichole Greene is a recent Obie Award recipient, three time New York Times Critic’s Pick. Lincoln Center Directors Lab alum, Soho Rep Directors Lab alum, member of SDC, and an MFA graduate of Brown University/ Trinity Rep. She’s an aggressive explorer of humanity. She finds Truth in the Absurd and finds “Realism” to be our hiding place; she finds it all to be very human.
Recent credits include Proof, Broadway (Associate); FROZEN, Children’s Theatre Company; The Scenarios, Studio Theatre; Bad Kreyòl, world premiere by Dominique Morisseau, Signature Theatre (NYT Critic’s Pick); Black Cypress Bayou, Geffen Playhouse; Covenant, world premiere, Roundabout Theatre Company (NYT Critic’s Pick, Obie Award for Direction); Rent, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Hamilton (Resident Director); 53% OF, Second Stage Theater; Ohio State Murders, Goodman Theatre; Lydia R. Diamond’s Whiterly Negotiations and Lynn Nottage’s What Are The Things I Need To Remember, Octopus Theatricals (NYT Critic’s Pick). www.tiffanynicholegreene.com
Playwrights Horizons Debut. Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits (Circle In The Square). NYC: Guide for the Homesick (LDK), Reconstructing (BAM & UTR), Covenant (Roundabout), Patience (2ST Uptown). Regional: Purpose (La Jolla), Treemonisha (WNO), Senior Class, Little Miss Perfect (Olney), Kunene and The King, Merry Wives (STC), Native Gardens, Two Trains Running (Hartford Stage), Much Ado About Nothing, Fences, Bartleby, The Comedy of Errors, Henry 6: One & Two (Old Globe) Tosca, Silent Night, Faust (Wolf Trap). Member: USA 829. www.motendesigns.com; IG: @motendesigns.
NY based Costume Designer, originally from Mexico City. Recent credits: Jerome (Playwrights Horizons); Sally & Tom (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel Nominee), Public Record, Plays for the Plague Year (The Public Theatre); Richard II (Astor Place Theatre); Beau the Musical (St. Luke's Theatre); What Became of Us (Atlantic Theatre); The Counterfeit Opera, The Tune Up (Little Island); Sorry for Your Loss (Minetta Lane Theatre); RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse); Torera (WP Theatre, Alley Theatre); House of India (The Old Globe); Mother Road (Berkeley Rep); The Bluest Eye (Huntington Theatre), Red Velvet (STC), Dial M for Murder (Alley Theatre). www.rodrigomunozdesign.com. @rodrigomu.mo.
Playwrights Horizons Debut. Broadway: Suffs, Yellow Face, Uncle Vanya, Camelot (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway and Regional: Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Roundabout, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse and others. Awards: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Lucille Lortel Award, Ovation Award.
Off-Boadway (select): The Antiquities, Amusements (Playwrights Horizons), The Counter (Roundabout), Caroline, Table 17 (MCC), Six Characters (LCT3), Grangeville, A Bright New Boise, A Case For The Existence Of God (Signature NYC), The Apiary, Camp Siegfried, Patience (2ST), I’m Almost There (BAM)/(Audible at Minetta Lane), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane), Heaux Church, P.S. (Ars Nova), and work at Petzel Gallery, Indiana Rep, The Goodman Theater, The Alliance Theater, Philadelphia Theater Company, Playmakers Rep, Little Island, The Brooklyn Museum, The Studio Museum and more.
Broadway: Fat Ham; Shifters, You Got Older (Cherry Lane); Daughters of the Regiment, Carousel (Boston Lyric Opera); Public Charge, Hamlet, The Harder They Come, Fat Ham, Cullad Wattah, Mojada (Public Theater); Waterfall (WP Theater); Almost Famous, Jersey Boys (ACT of Connecticut); Huzzah (The Old Globe), Camelot, Blues for an Alabama Sky (Barrington); Two Strangers, Diary of a Tap Dancer (A.C.T.); The Grove, Sojourners, Toni Stone, Fat Ham, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Huntington); Bad Kreyól, Three Houses (The Signature); Table 17 (Makeup Design - MCC); Midsummer Night Dream, Malvolio, Twelfth Night (Classical Theater of Harlem); Dames at Sea, Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse); Last Super (SOPAC); On Killing (Soho Rep); Little Girl Blue (Goodspeed, New World Stages); Meet Vera Stark, Matilda (Colorado University); On Sugarland (NYTW); Nina Simone: Four Women (Berkshire Theatre Group); Little Women (Dallas Theater Center)
Artist hailing from Southern California, but taking residency in New York. Select credits include: GIRLS:||:CHANCE:||:MUSIC (Vineyard); Joe Turner's Come & Gone (IRT); BUST (Alliance/Goodman); Table 17 (MCC); Sunset Baby (Signature Theater); Fabulation or the RE-Education of Undine (Billie Holiday); A vivid day dreamer, lover of kindle unlimited, and really REALLY good food. Playwrights Debut! For Mama Bui, always.
The language is beautiful and kept me up for hours.
A poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy, and family forgiveness.
