Reflections on Home: A Celebration of Immigrant Voices

Festival Includes: Performances of Mexodus; Reading of A Wake at Singh’s by local writer-in-residence Aeneas Sagar Hemphill; and Events with Dream Project, Imagination Stage, KAMA DC and KIND

Join us for events including Mexodus performances, a storytelling with KAMA DC, and a discussion with alumni of the Dream Project.

Reflections on Home offers audiences diverse perspectives on what it means to be an American today and deepens Mosaic’s commitment to building cross-cultural connection through theater.

Reflections on Home is sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts and Mosaic Partners Circle Activists Ed Grossman & Rochelle Stanfield and Advocates Elaine Reuben (of blessed memory) and Julie & David Zalkind.

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SAT JUNE 8 | AFTER 3PM PERFORMANCE
Mexodus Post-Show student reading with Imagination Stage and KIND to provide an opportunity for students to share their spoken word monologues and poems with Mexodus writer/performers Brian Quijada and Nygel D Robinson after the 3PM performance.

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**Aeneas Sagar Hemphill** (he/him) is an Indian-American playwright and screenwriter based in NYC and DC. Weaving through genres, his work builds new worlds to illuminate our own, using passion, pathos, and humor to investigate the ghosts that haunt our lives and communities.
He is currently a **2020-2021 Speakers’ Corner Fellow** at **Gingold Theatrical Group**. He was a **2019 Resident Artis**t with **Monson Arts Center** and **2017-2018 Playlab Fellow** at **Pipeline Theatre**, as well as **semi-finalist** for the 2019 Princess Grace Award, **semi-finalist** for the **2019 Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program**, and **finalist** for the **2017 Many Voices Fellowship**.
His plays include: *Black Hollow* (Argo Collective, Dreamscape Theatre), *The Troll King* (Pipeline), *Childhood Songs* (Monson Arts), *The Republic of Janet & Arthur* (Amios), *The Red Balloon* (Noor Theatre), *A Stitch Here or There* (DarkHorse Dramatists, Slingshot Theatre), *A Horse and a Housecat* (Slingshot Theatre). **MFA Playwriting, Columbia University**.

MON JUNE 10
A Wake at Singh’s—Reading
Writer in Residence: Aeneas Sagar Hemphill

A found family of immigrant cabbies gather at their usual spot, an all-night Indian (etc) restaurant Singh’s, to meet with their union rep and discuss a suicide epidemic among drivers burdened with medallion debt. An evening of song and dance and food and maybe even a spark of revolution.

By Invitation Only. Email serge@mosaictheater.org for more information.

THU JUNE 13 | AFTER 7PM PERFORMANCE
Mexodus Post-Show discussion featuring alumni of Dream Project
Location: Atlas Performing Arts Center

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FRI JUNE 14 | AFTER 7PM PERFORMANCE
Mexodus Post-Show event featuring storytellers from KAMA DC
Location: Atlas Performing Arts Center

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SAT JUNE 15 | AFTER 3PM PERFORMANCE
Post-Show conversation with local-international artists Helen Hayes Award-winner Regina Aquino, Elizabeth Dinkova (Artistic Director, Spooky Action Theater), and Danilo Gambini (Associate Artistic Director, Studio Theatre)
Location: Atlas Performing Arts Center

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SAT JUNE 15 | 8PM
Closing performance of Mexodus
Location: Atlas Performing Arts Center

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MEXODUS

By BRIAN QUIJADA AND NYGEL D. ROBINSON

Directed by DAVID MENDIZÁBAL

MAY 16 – JUNE 15, 2024

History meets hip-hop in this groundbreaking theatrical experience that explores the often-untold stories of enslaved people in the United States who sought freedom in Mexico, rather than looking north. Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson use live-looping to create a musical in real time, telling a unique story of the Underground Railroad that led south, highlighting the power of Black and Brown unity.

This world premiere production received developmental support from Mosaic’s Catalyst new play development incubator.

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