Three generations of women confront their relationships to their Jewish identities—and to each other. Comedy and tragedy entwine, like braided challah, when a mass shooting in their community tests the bonds of faith and family.

• Writer: Pamela Weiler Grayson
• Director: Shellen Lubin**
• Set Designer: Colleen Shea
• Lighting Designer: David Castaneda
  
• Sound Designer: Graydon Gund
• Costume, Hair, and Make-Up Coordinator: Sophia Dorio
• Production Stage Manager: Aryn Geier
• Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Aksel Tang

CAST: 
Yair Ben-Dor*, Fady Demian*, Arielle Flax, Rebecca Hoodwin*, Arielle Beth Klein*, Melissa Wolff*

AEA Showcase Production
*Member of the Actors’ Equity Association 
**Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

Show type: Play, 100 minutes

Performance Dates and Times:

• Thursday, 9/12 at 7PM
• Saturday, 9/14 at 7PM
• Monday, 9/16 at 7PM
• Wednesday, 9/18 at 2PM'
  
• Thursday, 9/19 at 7PM
• Sunday, 9/22 at 2PM
• Tuesday, 9/24 at 7PM
• Thursday, 9/26 at 7PM
• Saturday, 9/28 at 7PM

Tickets $40 /$45 at the door

If you would like to support this production, your tax-deductible donation will be greatly appreciated. All show supporters will be mentioned in the program. You will all be ‘Mensches!' You can include a donation as you purchase your tickets.

OBSERVANT is a recipient of a 2024 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. It was also a Semi-Finalist in the Jewish Plays Project’s 12th National Jewish Playwriting Competition.

Spark Theatre Festival NYC - Fall 2024

September 9 - 29, 2024

All performances take place at the Chain Theatre, 312 W 36th St. 3rd floor, New York, NY 10018

Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) returns with their one-of-a-kind Spark Theatre Festival NYC, allowing artists of different disciplines to present one performance of a polished "work-in-progress" with audience feedback. Visit the theater any evening during this three-week event, and you'll find yourself transported in a number of surprising ways: by a single performer embodying a whole host of characters, by a more experimental theater piece "done differently" that challenges and delights, by a cozy two-person show exploring relationships; or perhaps by a bouncy new musical that will have you humming. Emerging Artists has always been about new works, new talents, and new voices. That's never been more evident than now.

NO REFUNDS will be granted.