SANCTUARY CITY by Martyna Majok

SANCTUARY CITY

BY MARTYNA MAJOK DIRECTED BY PHILIP LEHL

March 23 - April 15

4th Wall Theatre Company is funded in part by awards from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the State of Texas through the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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To produce extraordinary professional theatrical experiences and to set a high standard for excellence in acting, direction, and design. We believe that only by paying artists a fair wage can we grow and sustain the community of professional theatrical artists in Houston.

STAFF

Philip Lehl, Artistic Director, Co-Founder

Jennifer Dean, Managing Director

Kim Tobin-Lehl, Resident Artist, Co-Founder

Catherine Dunaway, Development Manager

Gabriel Velazquez, Marketing Manager

Rubena Gracia, Box Office Associate

Rachel Clinkscales, Noora Mustafa, Daniel Quintero, House Managers

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gary Chiles, President

Patricia Larson, Secretary

Harriet Schubb, Treasurer

Kenneth Bohan, Howard M. Bookstaff, Dominic Cellitti, Sharyn Feller Harris, Michelle Mower, Carol Sugimoto

ADVISORY BOARD

Holly Beretto, Jennifer Decker, Ruth McCleskey, Michael Mullins, Gabriella Nissen, John and Kelly Raley, Jason Roberts, Chip Schneider, Dr. Robert Shimko, Nancy Wozny

SPECIAL THANKS FOR THIS PRODUCTION

Ted Doolittle, Sheri Suarez Foreman, John Meek, John Tyska, Robert Vaughan, and Hannah Warren

SANCTUARY CITY

By MARTYNA MAJOK

Directed by PHILIP LEHL

CAST

B ............................................................................. Luis Quintero*

G ................................................................. Raven Justine Troup*

Henry ............................................................. Christian Tannous

DESIGNERS & PRODUCTION CREW

Assistant Director ....................................... Frances Limoncelli

Stage Manager ...................................................... Kalin Menzel*

Production Manager .............................................. Chad Muska

Dramaturg .............................................................. Amy S. Tones

Lighting Designer ........................................................ Dan Jones

Set Designer ......................................................... Jodi Bobrovsky

Original Music & Sound Designer ........... Robert Leslie Meek

Costume Designer ...................................................... Macy Lyne

Scenic Production ..................... Sepeda Design & Production

Intimacy Director ................................................... Adam Noble

Assistant Intimacy Director .................................. Camille Noir

Crew ............................................................................... Kari Leija

Runtime: Approximately 90 minutes. No intermission. No re-entry once performance has begun.

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Stage Actors and Stage Managers.

SANCTUARY CITY is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.theatricalrights.com

SANCTUARY CITY had its World Premiere at New York Theatre Workshop, Jim Nicola, Artistic Director, Jeremy Blocker, Managing Director, 2020

SANCTUARY CITY was developed, in part, at the 2018 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab

FROM THE DIRECTOR

I first encountered Martyna Majok when 4th Wall produced a reading of her play, IRONBOUND, as part of our “Women’s Voices” play reading festival in 2017.

Similar to the protagonist in IRONBOUND, Martyna is the daughter of a Polish immigrant. And she’s on record about growing up and going to school with people like the characters in tonight’s play: people who are in the USA illegally. A lot of what we’ve been talking about in rehearsal, and a lot of the information in this program you have in your hand, has to do with immigration. It is the necessary frame for the play.

But, to me, this play is a love story. I can’t elaborate without spoilers, so I’ll just say: keep that in mind as you watch.

From a different perspective, I’m delighted that SANCTUARY CITY brings the 4th Wall debut of Luis Quintero and Raven Troup, two younger actors with whom I’ve worked at other theaters in town. And it gives me great pleasure to work with Christian Tannous, who made his 4th Wall debut in our last production, THE SOUND INSIDE, and who I taught, for one semester, at the University of Houston. Amy Tones, a longtime 4th Wall patron and supporter, makes her 4th Wall debut as Dramaturg: see her excellent piece on immigration in this same program. My friend of over thirty years, Frances Limoncelli, makes her 4th Wall main stage debut as Assistant Director. And Chad Muska, who spends most of his working day at the Alley, joins us for the first time as Production Manager.

It’s wonderful to have new blood, new faces, new ideas, new perspectives at 4th Wall. You might say that our immigration policy here at the theater is “wide open.”

I’d like to thank Robert Vaughan, who was instrumental in helping us secure the rights to produce SANCTUARY CITY. Getting the rights to produce a play can be bewildering for a theater like 4th Wall, and without Robert, I’m certain that we would not be performing this excellent play tonight.

Thanks for being here at 4th Wall; we couldn’t do it without you.

Philip Lehl Director of Sanctuary City

WHO’S WHO

LUIS QUINTERO (B) is thrilled to be making his 4th Wall debut! Houston credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sweat, and A Christmas Carol (The Alley), The River Bride (Stages), Around the World in 80 Days (A.D. Players), Regional credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Man of La Mancha (Triad Stage), American Mariachi (Denver Center for the Performing Arts/Old Globe San Diego), Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Acting Company), Twelfth Night, The Book of Will, Pride and Prejudice, Into the Woods, Cyrano, Romeo and Juliet, and Mr. Burns (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummers Night’s Dream (N.C. Symphony), The Lightning Thief, A Christmas Carol (Theaterworks USA). Luis’ hip-hop adaptation of Medea will premiere Off-Broadway with Red Bull Theater in 2024. Luis received his B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

RAVEN JUSTINE TROUP (G) is excited to be participating in her first production with 4th Wall! Previous performance credits include: Mary Poppins (TUTS); Seascape (Alley Theatre); Amerikin (Alley Theatre); The Little Mermaid (TUTS); Sister Act (TUTS); Sensitive Guys (Stages); Elf the Musical (TUTS); Spring Awakening (TUTS); Seussical the Musical (TUTS); Little Shop of Horrors (Stages); Mamma Mia! (TUTS); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Art Factory); Funny Girl (Art Factory); The Wiz (TUTS); For Colored Girls… (Obsidian Theater).

CHRISTIAN TANNOUS (Henry) is a Houston-based actor and is currently working towards his B.A. in Fine Arts and Arts Administration at the University of HoustonDowntown. Various theatre credits include: The Sound Inside (Christopher Dunn), Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch), Ring Round the Moon (Romainville), Reasons to Be Pretty (Kent), and Romeo and Juliet (Romeo). He is also proud to be part of The Man from Beyond cast at Strange Bird Immersive. Christian would like to thank his friends and family for their unrelenting love and support through this exciting chapter, especially his brother, Jordan...the very reason Christian ended up coming back “home” in the first place.

MARTYNA MAJOK (Playwright) was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living, which debuted this past fall on Broadway, and she recently won the Obie Award for Playwriting for Sanctuary City. Other plays include Queens and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages. Other awards include The Hull-Warriner Award, The Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting,

WHO’S WHO

Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award, The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, The Hermitage Greenfield Prize, as the first female recipient in drama, The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office, The Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, The Lanford Wilson Prize, The Lilly Award’s Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play from The Helen Hayes Awards, Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, ANPF Women’s Invitational Prize, David Calicchio Prize, Global Age Project Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools. She was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-inresidence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Martyna is currently writing a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, and developing TV and film for Plan B, Pastel, and MRC. Majok is pronounced My Oak, like the tree.

PHILIP LEHL (Director) is a co-founder of 4th Wall Theatre and the company’s Artistic Director. Recently at 4th Wall, he played Jerry in The Thin Place, Lieutenant Caro in Between Riverside and Crazy, Torvald in A Doll’s House, Part 2, Bob Jones in The Realistic Joneses, and directed The Glass Menagerie. He has acted on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in a National Tour, and in many regional theaters. Since arriving in Texas in 2001, Philip has appeared at every Equity theater in Houston, including 4th Wall, the Alley, Stages, Main Street Theater, A.D. Players, Houston Shakespeare Festival, and TUTS. He has also appeared as a guest artist at Classical Theatre Company (where he is a company member), Generations, Horse Head, and BCCM. Philip holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Drake University and also studied at NTI and Moscow Arts Theatre School. His directing credits include plays at 4th Wall, Classical Theatre Company, A.D. Players, Stages, BCCM, Generations, and Brave Dog Theatre. He is a founder, board member, and executive of the Houston Theatre Alliance and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

FRANCES LIMONCELLI (Assistant Director) is excited to be a part of this talented Sanctuary City team. Prior to arriving in Texas, Frances spent over 20 years in Chicago where she worked as an actor, director, and dramaturg at many Chicago area theatres, including Goodman, Steppenwolf, Northlight, Drury Lane, and Route 66 Theatre Company. She taught in many under-served Chicago public schools and was a guest instructor at DePaul University and Chicago Dramatists. She continues to be a proud member of Chicago’s Lifeline Theatre, where at various times she has served as adaptor, actor, teacher, administrator, and director. Frances has also directed at New World Stages in New York and the Weston Playhouse in Vermont. As an adaptor of literature for the stage, her plays have been seen in such regional theatres as the Cleveland Playhouse in Ohio, the PTC Performance Space in New York, Taproot Theatre in Seattle, and the Manitoba Theatre Center in Winnipeg. Frances now makes Houston her home where she teaches theatre at The Kinkaid School and where she recently directed Mighty Acorn’s production of Almost, Maine. She has a bachelor’s degree in theatre with an emphasis in directing from the Boston Conservatory.

KALIN MENZEL (Stage Manager) Credits at 4th Wall Theatre Company: The Sound Inside; The Thin Place; Between Riverside and Crazy; Gloria; The Lifespan of a Fact; A Doll’s House, Part 2; The Realistic Joneses; The Glass Menagerie; Collected Stories; The Pussy Grabber Plays; Rapture, Blister, Burn; Pride and Prejudice; Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Stage Manager); Shakespeare in Vegas; Reckless (Stage Crew). Rogue Productions: I Love You Because (ASM). Kalin is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. @kalinmenzel

AMY S. TONES (Dramaturg) is a Houston-based Freelance Dramaturg. Amy worked for the Alley Theatre as a Publication and Literary Associate (1992-1994), Stages Repertory as the Director of Public Relations and Marketing and Dramaturg (1994-1995), and the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville as a Literary Intern (1991-1992). As a Freelance Dramaturg, she has worked with playwrights on new play development. Education: B.A. in Theatre from Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin. Amy would like to thank Philip and Kim for giving her the opportunity to re-enter production dramaturgy in the Houston theatre scene.

DAN JONES (Lighting Designer) is a native of San Antonio. He is currently working as the Associate Lighting Director at the Alley Theatre. Past credits include: Lighting Designer for Random Acts and The Lifespan of a Fact (4th Wall Theatre), Assistant Lighting Designer for The Wiz and Ragtime (Theatre Under the Stars), as well as Associate Light Designer for Sweat and 72 Miles to Go (Alley Theatre). Dan would like to personally thank Philip and Kim for this opportunity.

WHO’S WHO

JODI BOBROVSKY (Set Designer) Other scenic/properties designs for 4th Wall include: Macbeth, Stage Kiss, Small Mouth Sounds, The God Game, All Girls, God of Carnage, Body Awareness. Costume designs: Reckless. She has been a staff designer at Stages for 23 seasons. Favorite scenic/properties/costume designs include: Plumshuga, MacGyver the Musical, Roe, Yankee Tavern, A Picasso, An Infinite Ache, Black Pearl Sings, and The Whipping Man, which won the Houston Press 2014 Best Scenic Design award. Freelance designs in Houston include scenic designs for Mildred’s Umbrella: The Drowning Girls, Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Main Street Theater: Dog Act, The Coast of Utopia. Generations Theater: Sweeney Todd, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening. Catastrophic Theater: The Pine, AnnaBellaEema. Houston Grand Opera: special properties for Jenufa, Julius Caesar, The Little Prince (World Premiere). Jodi has been the Resident Properties Designer for 18 seasons at the University of Houston Moore’s Opera. She was the Houston Properties Coordinator for the world premiere of Stanton Welch’s The Nutcracker for the Houston Ballet. She has also designed for The Ensemble Theatre, Classical Theatre Company, Catastrophic, Musiqa, University of Houston School of Theatre, College of the Mainland, Rice University Opera, Unity Theatre Brenham, Hope Stone Dance, and Main Street Youth Theater. Her scenic design models have been exhibited at the American Institute of Architecture. She was featured in Houston Press’s “Top 100 Creative” column.

ROBERT LESLIE MEEK (Original Music & Sound Designer) is very excited to continue this season with 4th Wall. Selected credits include sound design for Collected Stories, Pride & Prejudice, The Glass Menagerie, Between Riverside & Crazy, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Thin Place, and The Sound Inside here at 4th Wall Theatre Company and for Woyzeck, Hurricane Diane, Put Your House In Order, and A Number at Rec Room Arts. He has directed and done sound design for: The Tempest, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Haunting of Hill House, Veronica’s Room, Titus Andronicus, Christmas Carol, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing (CCCT) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The University of Houston. He has also made original music for advertisements, worked with national brands, and collaborated on exciting original works including audio for an animated pilot for The American Museum of Natural History. Robert is a music producer with more than 250,000 streams on Spotify and releases original music as “J U N O”, you can listen and learn more at www.junomusichtx.com.

open studios the 2nd Saturday of each month from 2-5pm

MACY LYNE (Costume Designer) Macy Lyne is a Houston-based freelance costume designer and stylist. Texas theatre company designs include: 4th Wall Theatre Company, Main Street Theater, Catastrophic Theatre, TexARTS, Stages, The Ensemble Theatre, and many others. She also enjoys traveling and has designed for Utah Musical Theatre and Utah State University in Utah, and Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico among others. Opera companies include: Tulsa Opera, Ars Lyrica, Moore’s School of Music at University of Houston, The Houston Grand Opera, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and Mercury Chamber Orchestra. Film/ Television credits include: Hannah Herrera Fall Apart (Music Video); Be Not Afraid (Feature Film); Penny Power (Web Series); ZomBFF (Promo Shoot.) www.maclyne.com.

SEPEDA DESIGN & PRODUCTION (Scenic Production) is a privately owned and operated production company that services performing arts companies and artists to provide any scenic or property elements they may need. The company is in its seventh year of business and continuing to grow. Santiago Sepeda, the company’s owner and founder, would like to acknowledge and thank the wonderful artists of the Houston theatre community for their hard work and support.

ADAM NOBLE (Intimacy Director) is a movement specialist with 20 years of experience in theatre, opera, and film. Notable credits include: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Alley Theatre, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Stages Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, and the Public Theatre. Mr. Noble is the co-founder and artistic director of the Dynamic Presence Project, a theatre company focused on the revitalization of movement theatre and embodied physical storytelling. For well over a decade, his methodology for approaching intimacy and aggression in performance has nurtured safe practices and influenced the work of students, educators, and professional artists. The “Noble Method” is taught at academic institutions around the country. Mr. Noble is Associate Professor of Acting & Movement at the University of Houston, where he serves as Head of the B.F.A. Acting program. He is resident Fight Director & Intimacy Consultant for The Alley Theatre and Studio Movement Instructor for the prestigious Houston Grand Opera. He is an Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, a Fight Director and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, and an associate member of Stage Directors & Choreographers.

Rehearsal photography by Jeff McMorrough.

Pictured: Philip Lehl, Raven Troup, Luis Quintero, Frances Limoncelli.

IMMIGRATION IN CONTEXT

These famous lines from the plaque inserted at the base of the Statue of Liberty in the early twentieth century have become a symbol of the American Dream. America, a melting pot where anyone from anywhere can find freedom and succeed. A look at the history of immigration in the United States shows a much more complicated picture.

Almost as soon as the young country won its independence, laws restricting who could become naturalized citizens were codified. The Naturalization Act of 1790 made it clear that immigrants to the United States who wished to become citizens had to be “free whites of good moral character.” Citizenship was extended to immigrants of African origin in 1870. Further restrictions, limiting, and ultimately banning immigrants of Asian origins, as well as codifying what constituted a good moral character followed.

The landmark Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 created a new system favoring family reunification and skilled immigrants, but for the first time set limitations on immigration from the Western Hemisphere making it harder for immigrants from Latin America to enter the country.

This play is primarily set in the sanctuary city of Newark, New Jersey, in the Ironbound Neighborhood. (Image: Google Maps, 2023)

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

-Emma Lazarus, from her poem “The New Collossus”

Still, many migrants came to the United States, both legally and illegally in pursuit of the American Dream. Growing demand in farming and industrial businesses for unskilled labor fueled this migration. Although many migrants came to this country legally, there was no path to citizenship for them, and many overstayed their authorized time.

Another major decision in 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act, granted legal status to millions of immigrants who met certain criteria and began to penalize businesses who employed these undocumented individuals. During this time, many of those involved in immigration increasingly focused on the plight of the children who were brought to this country by migrant workers hoping for a better life.

WHAT IS A SANCTUARY CITY?

The term “sanctuary city” refers to cities that have adopted a policy of protecting undocumented immigrants by not prosecuting them solely for violating federal immigration laws.

Sanctuary City, set in the early years of the twenty-first century, focuses on the children, and the precarious state that their parents’ decisions have forced upon them. These children grew up as Americans, knowing little of their countries of birth, but lack a legal path to citizenship. For a time in the early 2000’s, it seemed likely that these, and other immigration issues would be addressed. The events of September 11, 2001, put an end to the hopes of an imminent solution. The hope of discussions just five days before that infamous day evaporated instantly. Following a three-month moratorium on all immigration proceedings, an increasing emphasis on the security of the country led to deportations of hundreds of thousands of individuals, a number that continues to grow.

In 2001, a bipartisan bill, The DREAM Act, sought to address the status of minor children brought into the United States who are unable to establish permanent residency and who face deportation to their country of origin, despite the child having lived in the United States for many years. The Bill has been reworked and reintroduced many times but has lost bipartisan support and has never been passed. Other measures meant to support these children have been eroded by an increasingly hostile conservative opposition. Because of this, many young people like B and G face an uncertain future.

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THANK YOU TO OUR 2022-2023 VOLUNTEERS

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Dinner and Cabaret Gala honoring James Black with special performance from Judith Ivey

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The Alliance is a leading nonprofit organization for welcoming and empowering those who face financial, educational, health, language or cultural barriers to realizing their dreams. Beyond core refugee settlement, social-educational, and wellness services, The Alliance houses several innovative social enterprises: Alliance Language Network, the Driver’s Education and Mobility Center, and, The Community Cloth, a microenterprise initiative for artisan refugee women. All increase support for client self-sufficiency and employment opportunities so clients can thrive in our community.

Mission: To create opportunities for refugees, immigrants, and underserved residents to achieve their goals for self-sufficiency and improve their quality of life.

Get Involved: Visit www.thealliancetx.org or call 713-776-4700

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

4th Wall acknowledges that we gather on the traditional lands of the Karankawa, Atakapa, and Akokisas peoples. We honor, with gratitude, the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations. This calls us to continually learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit.

We would like to offer special thanks to the American Indian Center of Houston for helping us draft this statement.

UGRADING YOUR EXPERIENCE

We want to upgrade your front of house and artistic experience at 4th Wall, but we need your help. Partner with us to improve the theatre-going experience for years to come by making a charitable donation to support exciting capital improvements.

SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY

4th Wall will announce it’s 13th season of up-close, extraordinary theatre on Saturday, May 6th at a party for our VIP Supporters! Join in on the fun with an annual gift of $250 or more, or set up a recurring $20 per month donation.

Season subscription renewals will go on sale on May 8th, new subscriptions will open on June 5th, and single ticket sales will open August 1st.

More details coming soon...

FAIRVIEW

by Jackie Sibblies Drury

directed by Aaron Brown

May 25 - June 17 featuring Derrick Brent II

Faith Fossett

Courtney Lomelo

Shawanna Renee Rivon

Jasmine Renee Thomas

Ciara Shabree

Drake Simpson

Wesley Whitson

“...dazzling and ruthless...

FAIRVIEW is a series of perspective-altering surprises, and they keep coming at you even when you think [Drury] must surely have emptied [her] bag of tricks...a glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theatre to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake.”

- The New York Times