PRESENTS
the Local Lab staged reading of
AFFINITY LUNCH MINUTES
written by
NICK MALAKHOW
directed by
SABIN EPSTEIN
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Sunday, April 24, 2022 | 2 pm MT
Dairy Arts Center | Boulder, CO
IN-PERSON
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There will be a 20-minute talkback facilitated by Local Lab Co-Director Betty Hart directly following the reading.
SYNOPSIS
Ben and Jasmine are the only two Black teachers at Penn Valley, a private Quaker school. Jasmine is passionate and boundary pushing, while Ben has worked his way up the ranks at the school to be Diversity Dean thanks to his “agreeable” nature. A racially charged discipline decision ignites a divide at the school and in Jasmine and Ben’s collegial relationship.
CREATIVE TEAM
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PESHA RUDNICK
Artistic Director
MISHA ZIMMERMAN
Producer
NICK CHASE
Marketing Manager,
Associate Artistic Director, & Lab 11
Co-Director
ALISON PALMER
Development & Business Affairs
BETTY HART
Lab 11 Co-Director
KEVIN DOUGLAS
Marketing Associate
JORDAN LICHTENHELD
Resident Dramaturg
MIKALEY OSLEY
Production and Administrative Associate
Land Acknowledgement
Every community owes its existence and vitality to generations from around the world that contributed their hopes, dreams and energy to making the history that led to this moment. Some of the people from the history of this spot were brought here against their will, some were drawn to leave their distant homes in hope of a better life and some have lived on this land for more generations than can be counted. Truth and acknowledgment are critical to building mutual respect and connection across all barriers of heritage and difference. We begin this effort to acknowledge what has been buried by honoring the truth.
Local Theater Company acknowledges, with deep respect, that we are located on the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Ute, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations and Peoples. We pay respect to their elders both past and present. We ask that you consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration and settlement that bring us here today.
Appearing through an Agreement between Local Theater Company and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
