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HOMERIDAE
by Alexandra Espinoza
Directed by Stephen Buescher

Mon, Mar 28 2022
5:30PM PST, 6:30 PM MDT, 7:30 PM CDT, 8:30 PM EDT

PLAY SYNOPSIS: Mac, an adjunct lecturer, and Nessa, a freshman, are both African-Americans in a very white department at a very white college who are deeply passionate about Homer’s The Odyssey. When they stumble upon the discovery that Homer came from Africa, they must figure out how to honor this truth in the face of university administrators, overbearing older siblings, the Internet, and Homer himself. Espinoza’s play explores questions around who controls the narrative and how to disrupt the status quo.

PLAYWRIGHT BIO: Alexandra Espinoza is a playwright, performer, director, dramaturg, and more. As playwright: All My Mothers Dream in Spanish (IATI Theater Cimientos Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation Honorable Mention), exxx…stasis, exxx…hale… (Villanova Theatre), HOMERIDAE (Theatre Exile Studio X-hibition, Unicorn Theatre Works in Progress), and PERIL’s ISLAND written with the community of Harrowgate (Shakespeare in Clark Park). As director: Angelina Grimké’s Rachel (Quintessence Theatre 2020), Alice Childress’s Wine in the Wilderness (Philadelphia Artists Collective 2022). In 2021 Alexandra created and directed the community driven play BlackBestFriend, supported by the Leeway Foundation, Art is Essential, and the Open Meadows Foundation. Alexandra is the Education Associate at the Wilma Theater and a lifelong student for collective liberation. AlexandraEspinozaPlay.com

DIRECTOR BIO: Stephen Buescher is a Director and Choreographer. He has directed numerous plays in American Conservatory Theater’s Graduate program including The House of Bernarda Alba (Moscow Art Theater), Black Orpheus, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, Galileo, and recently Man in Love at UCSD. Stephen was the Assistant Director for ACT’s Hamlet and has directed workshop productions of The Sadness of Johnny Depp (San Diego Rep), Black Top Sky (ACT), and Daisies on Harlem’s Doorstep (UCSD). Currently Stephen is directing a workshop production of A Streetcar Named Desire with Fiasco Theater. Stephen is a member of SDC as a Director/Choreographer.

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