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Downtown Race Riot

Downtown Race Riot

By Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Directed by Scott Elliott

November 14, 2017

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Overview

On a hot late summer day in 1976, a mob of young men – all white except one – descended on Washington Square Park with pipes and bats, and attacked any people of color they could find. Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s Downtown Race Riot takes us back to this day, in the cramped Village apartment of Mary Shannon, a strung-out, free-wheeling single mom, as her son Pnut and his Haitian best friend Massive wrestle with their obligation to join the riot. The boys, torn between loyalty to each other and to the neighborhood, grasp for ways to keep the violence from destroying their friendship forever. A snapshot of a time not so different than today, when a new social freedom ran smack into the forces of reaction, and when the stakes were truly life and death.

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Cast

Performer: Cristian DeMeo

Cristian DeMeo

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Performer: David Levi

David Levi

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Performer: Moise Morancy

Moise Morancy

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Performer: Josh Pais

Josh Pais

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Performer: Sadie Scott

Sadie Scott

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Performer: Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny

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Performer: Daniel Sovich

Daniel Sovich

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Creative Team

Seth Zvi Rosenfeld

Playwright
Director: Scott Elliott

Scott Elliott

Director
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Derek McLane

Scenic Design
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Clint Ramos

Costume Design

Yael Lubetzky

Lighting Design

M.L. Dogg

Sound Design

Judy Henderson, CSA

Casting
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UnkleDave's Fight House

Fighting Direction
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Valerie A. Peterson

Production Stage Manager
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