A GOOD DAY TO ME
NOT TO YOU
World Premiere
DATES
November 8 - December 16, 2023
LOCATION
Connelly Theater, 220 East 4th Street in Manhattan
PRESENTED THROUGH SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH:
Plate Spinner Productions WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY:
Lameece IssaqDIRECTED BY:
Lee Sunday Evans“A GOOD DAY TO ME NOT TO YOU opts for all-out vulnerability, dissecting the psyche as if the stage were an operating table.”- The New York Times
“The show, brimming with jokes, also goes deep, looking past the smile to find the skull beneath.” - The New Yorker
Writer and actor Lameece Issaq teams up with two-time Obie winning director Lee Sunday Evans on her riotously funny and gut-wrenching new play about a 40-whatever dental lab tech who gets fired and moves into St. Agnes Residence, a woman's rooming house run by nuns. While there, she must come to terms with her unfulfilled path to motherhood and the untimely death of her sister - all while fending off her unpredictable and sometimes deranged cohabitants. The play is performed by Issaq in a story-telling tour-de-force.
The creative development of this play has been supported by Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flights Festival, Noor Theatre, and Cape Cod Theatre Project.
Stay tuned for news about a tour of this production!
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Executive Producers: victor cervantes jr., Arian Moayed, Rachel Sussman
Scenic Designer: Peiyi Wong
Costume Designer: Jian Jung
Lighting Designer: Mextly Couzin
Original Music & Sound Design: Avi Amon
Props Designer: Mele Sabú Borges
Production Stage Manager: Siena Yusi
Assistant Stage Manager: Christina M. Woolard
Associate Director: Dunya Karam
Associate Set Designer: Oscar Escobedo
Associate Costume Design: Joshua Barilla
Assistant Lighting Design: Lauren Lee
Sound System Design: Tye Hunt Fitzgerald
Production Coordinator: Robert Signom III, Intuitive Production Management
Production Manager: Beth Ann Mastromarino, Intuitive Production Management
Technical Director: Sarah Schetter, Intuitive Production Management
Press Representative: John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency
Social Media: The Social Team
Paid Media: Stephanie Schloss, Schloss Marketing Solutions
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Reviews:
New York Times: Full Exposure? Four Solo Shows Ponder the Art of True NatureThe New Yorker: Goings On Off Broadway
TheaterScene.net, Review of A GOOD DAY
Features:
New York Times: Solo Plays This FallStage Whisper Podcast: Whisper in the Wings Episode 273
GALLERY
“A wryly candid confessional”
LAMEECE ISSAQ (Writer & Performer) is an actor and writer and co-founder/former artistic director of the Obie Award-winning company Noor Theatre. Lameece has appeared in several regional and off-Broadway productions, including The Fever Chart and Stuff Happens (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble) at the Public Theatre, The Black Eyed at New York Theatre Workshop and Noura at The Old Globe, among several others. She’s written various short plays for the The New York Arab-American Comedy Festival; as well Noor & Hadi Go to Hogwarts (Theater Breaking Through Barriers, Golden Thread Theater); Orb Weaver (24/6) and Nooha’s List, part of the compilation play, Motherhood Outloud (Hartford Stage, The Geffen and Primary Stages). Her full length play Food and Fadwa (2011 recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award) premiered off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop in a production she co-produced and starred in, and in which Variety magazine praised her performance as “stunning.” Food and Fadwa was a part of the Arab Voices Festival in both Abu Dhabi and Beirut and was published in the anthology “Contemporary Plays By Women of Color,” second edition. She co-wrote the feature film Abe, directed by Fernando Grostein Andrade, and starring Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Lameece is a member of AEA and SAG AFTRA. 2016 NYFA Finalist in Playwriting/Screenwriting. www.lameeceissaq.com
LEE SUNDAY EVANS (Director) is a two-time Obie Award-winning Director + Choreographer and the Artistic Director of Waterwell. She most recently directed the acclaimed production of Heather Christian’s ORATORIO FOR LIVING THINGS and was announced as the director of a Broadway-bound musical adaptation of A WRINKLE IN TIME. She is developing a TV project for A24. Notable credits include DANCE NATION by Clare Barron, THE COURTROOM by Arian Moayed as well as the feature-length film that premiered at Tribeca, DETROIT RED by Will Power, SUNDAY by Jack Thorne, IN THE GREEN by Grace McLean, MILLER, MISSISSIPPI by Boo Killebrew, and HOME by Geoff Sobelle.
PLATE SPINNER PRODUCTIONS (Enhancing Producer) is a production company working across entertainment media, led by Diana DiMenna with colleagues Rachel Sussman and Celia Kaleialoha Kenney. PSP identifies, nurtures, and produces dynamic stories that challenge artists and audiences to question the status quo. Bway: Here Lies Love, Sweeney Todd, What the Constitution Means to Me (Tony nom, Pulitzer Prize finalist), The Old Man & The Pool, Dana H/Is This a Room. Film: Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan (Inaugural Chita Rivera Award). Projects in development: Dave Malloy’s Octet, A Wrinkle in Time, Inherit the Wind and Same Time, Next Year. www.platespinnerproductions.com
