Overview
- The Upper West Side program, scheduled for April 20 at Symphony Space, stages archival-based monologues tracing 125 years of immigrant life in New York City.
- Emmy- and Tony-nominated actor Arian Moayed hosts a cast that includes Simu Liu, Micaela Diamond, Jayne Houdyshell, Roberta Colindrez, Sunita Mani, Justin H. Min, Sepideh Moafi, Laith Nakli, Tramell Tillman, and Pej Vahdat.
- Director Lee Sunday Evans and oral historian Liza Zapol curated the pieces from books and oral-history collections, including Muslims in Brooklyn, the Queens College Irish in New York project, and the Washington Heights Oral History Collection.
- The event partners with the New York Immigration Coalition under its NY Proud campaign and will be recorded for national broadcast on Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts radio show and podcast.
- Tickets start at $10 on a sliding scale, and the women-led FogoAzul drumline will perform live throughout the evening.