featuring: Sara Pinotti, Nia Calloway, Xamari Rolin, Aaron Madison, Nicole Raintoe, Hye Young Chun, Xandra Clark, Chun Cho, Darby Davis, Ashton Muniz, Megan Branch 

a nonlinear deconstruction of what home means for me through the lens of colonization and being torn from homes in this life, past lives and along ancestral lines. National home vs cultural home vs ethnic home; assimilation; coping mechanisms; inherited trauma and fragmented identities.

lead with music by candomblé cantor: STARR BUSBY

Video by Lilleth Glimcher: https://vimeo.com/258880777

THE LOST by Keelay Gipson is a multimedia theatrical experience about discovering your identity. Bobby is a young spoken word poet and foster kid from Harlem. When he’s placed with a new family on the Upper East Side for his senior year of high school, his world gets turned upside down. THE LOST explores themes of change and what it means to spread your wings when the world is telling you that you have none. THE LOST premiered in May 2014 in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, where it received 12 Planet Connections Award nominations and 4 wins, including Outstanding Musical/Play with Music, Outstanding Script, and Outstanding Director. Led by Directress, Rebeca Rad, the cast performed a developmental summer run of the show in Midtown Manhattan to packed houses. Followed by a developmental workshop at New York Theatre Workshop. This show has a distinctly contemporary blend of drama and musical, hip hop and gay cultures, spoken word poetry jam and summer block party. In 2016 the creative team of The Lost were chosen to be Public Artists in Residence with the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs to work with LGBQT Foster Youth on the themes surrounding the show.

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Rad has directed a wide variety of pieces from concerts at Joe's Pub and 54 Below, among other venues, to new adaptations of classics with a rad flare to brand new works seeking to find their place in the world.