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Where the Mountain Meets the Sea
by Jeff Augustin
directed by Joshua Kahan Brody
music by The Bengsons
with Abigail Bengson, Shaun Bengson,
Billy Eugene Jones, Chris Myers
OFF-BROADWAY AT
New York City Center Stage I
Now through November 27 only!
Opened Wednesday, November 2, 2022.
Closed Sunday, November 27, 2022.
From acclaimed writer Jeff Augustin (The New Englanders at MTC, “The Morning Show”) comes a timely story of a son’s quest to connect with his father. Lyrical story-telling and live folk songs from The Bengsons weave a tale of searching and longing, family and legacy. A Haitian immigrant travels from Miami to California on a once-in-a-lifetime road trip. Years later, his son makes the same journey in reverse. Along the way, blurring the lines of time, these two finally discover common ground and make a connection that has eluded them for decades. Directing is Princess Grace Award winner Joshua Kahan Brody.
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea was commissioned by and premiered in the 2020 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Illustration by Zharia Shinn.
Runtime is 1 hour and 20 minutes with no intermission
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Cast
Shaun Bengson and Abigail Bengson
Band
Abigail & Shaun Bengson are a married composing and performing duo based in New York City and Vermont who have performed across the country and around the world. Their video, The Keep Going Song, has been viewed over 4 million times. Three of their singles have been featured on “So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX). Their theater work includes My Joy Is Heavy! (Arena Stage), The Keep Going Song (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), Hundred Days (La Jolla Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, U.S. Tour), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (ATL’s Humana Festival), Anything That Gives Off Light (Edinburgh Theatre Festival), You’ll Still Call Me By Name (New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow), and Iphigenia in Aulis (Classic Stage Company). They have received the Jonathan Larson and Richard Rogers awards and nominations for the Drama Desk, Drama League and Lucile Lortel awards. Proud parents to Louie and Charlie.
Billy Eugene Jones
Jean
Billy Eugene Jones: Broadway credits include A Soldier’s Play, The Book of Mormon, A Raisin in the Sun, The Trip to Bountiful, The Big Knife, The Mountaintop, Passing Strange, Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean. Off-Broadway credits include Fat Ham (Public Theater), On Sugarland (NYTW/Drama Desk Nomination), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF), Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre/Audelco Nomination), The Jammer (Atlantic Theater Company), In the Footprint (The Civilians), Waiting for Godot and Three Sisters (Classical Theater of Harlem). Regional: Yale Rep, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Goodman, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, CalShakes, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center.
Billy is a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
Chris Myers
Jonah
Broadway Debut: How I Learned to Drive (MTC). Selected NY Theater: BLKS (MCC), An Octoroon (Soho Rep; Obie Award), The Winter’s Tale (The Public), Whorl Inside A Loop (Second Stage), On The Grounds of Belonging (The Public), Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park), War (LCT3), Brownsville Song (LCT3). Selected Regional: Henry IV (Shakespeare Center LA; with Tom Hanks), Fences (McCarter/Long Wharf; Dir: Phylica Rashad), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Theatre DC). TV: “Merry Happy Whatever” (Netflix), “The Resident” (FOX), “Sneaky Pete” (Amazon), “The Good Fight” (CBS), “She’s Gotta Have It” (Netflix; Dir: Spike Lee), “The Breaks” (VH1). Training: Juilliard | chrismyersinc.com | Instagram: @chrismyersinc
Shaun Bengson and Abigail Bengson
Band
Billy Eugene Jones
Jean
Chris Myers
Jonah
Quinn Franzen
u/s Band
Quinn he/him is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Theatre credits include White Noise (Studio Theatre), The Antelope Party (Dutch Kills), Threesome (59e59), Nell Gwynn (The Folger), Familiar & We Are Proud to Present… (The Guthrie), Anna Karenina (Notch/The Flea), Diaspora (Gym at Judson), and Angels in America (The Intiman). His work can be seen on TV in Billions, The Blacklist, Younger, and Grimm. More at www.quinnfranzen.com (Proudly married to fellow Band u/s Barrie Lobo McLain)
Yonatan Gebeyehu
u/s Jonah
OFF- BROADWAY: TFANA: Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, BEDLAM: Persuasion, VINEYARD THEATER: Lessons in Survival, NEW GEORGES/ THE TANK: I Thought I Would Die, But I Didn’t. REGIONAL: SHAKESPEARE THEATER CO: Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, Everybody, MONTANA REP: Go. Please. Go, CHAUTAUQUA THEATER CO: Noises Off, Romeo and Juliet, PORTLAND STAGE CO: A Christmas Carol, UCSD/LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE: Revolt. She said. Revolt Again., Strange Men. TV: “Prodigal Son” (FOX), “Elementary”, “Madame Secretary” (CBS). DIGITAL SERIES: 86’d (Bric Arts). TRAINING: University of California San Diego: MFA in Acting. BA in English Literature: Columbia University. Yonatan-Gebeyehu.com
Nathan Hinton
u/s Jean
A member of the first Broadway Touring company of Angels in America, Nathan’s recent credits consist of Jean in Where the Mountain Meets the Sea at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Zachariah in Blood Knot with Mosaic Theater Company, and Friar Laurence in Romeo & Juliet with Shakespeare Theatre Company. New York credits include Robert O’Hara’s Insurrection: Holding History at The Public Theater, Dan Hoyle’s The Block at The Working Theater and Keith Josef Adkin’s PITBULLS at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Regional credits include Twelfth Night, The Piano Lesson, and The Call at theaters comprised of Yale Repertory Theater, Delaware Theatre Company, and Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Television credits include The Equalizer, FBI:Most Wanted, and Madam Secretary.
Barrie Lobo McLain
u/s Band
Barrie (she/they) is a Brooklyn-based performing artist and creator. Selected credits include Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things (Greenwich House), The Bengsons’ Hundred Days (NYTW, La Jolla, national tour) and Songs From Ohio (St. Ann’s), Bernstein’s MASS (PBS, Ravinia), Sleep No More (NYC), Kansas City Choir Boy with Courtney Love (NYC, national tour), This Clement World (St. Ann’s.) Collaborations with Sherie Rene Scott, Todd Almond, Julie Klausner, Ada Westfall, Matthew Dean Marsh. Regularly performing with Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez and Selena tribute band Cinco12. Solo album Ether produced by Willie Green out now. barriemclain.com (Proudly married to fellow Band u/s Quinn Franzen)
Quinn Franzen
u/s Band
Yonatan Gebeyehu
u/s Jonah
Nathan Hinton
u/s Jean
Barrie Lobo McLain
u/s Band
Creative
Jeff Augustin
Playwright
Jeff Augustin plays include The New Englanders (Manhattan Theatre Club); Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Last Tiger in Haiti (La Jolla Playhouse and Berkeley Rep) and Cry Old Kingdom (Humana Festival). He translated Our Town into Haitian Creole for Miami New Drama’s multilingual production. Jeff was the Shank Playwright-in-Residence at Playwrights Horizons and the inaugural Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout. Jeff is currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club and La Jolla Playhouse. TV Credits: Saint X (Hulu); Claws (TNT); The Morning Show (Apple) and The Good Lord Bird (Showtime). BA: Boston College, MFA: UC San Diego.
Joshua Kahan Brody
Director
Joshua Kahan Brody’s directing work includes King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre, Center Theater Group, and San Francisco Playhouse); The Last Tiger in Haiti (La Jolla Playhouse and Berkeley Rep); AIRNESS (Chautauqua Theater Company); A Funny Thing… (City Theatre); Fourteen Flights (Award for Excellence in Directing, NY Fringe). He has developed work all over the country including at Colorado New Play Summit, New Dramatists, NYTW, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, Perry-Mansfield, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. He is a Princess Grace Award winner and received his MFA from UC – San Diego and his BA from Yale University. He is the co-founder of THE TRIP (www.thetriptheater.net). Josh lives in Brooklyn with his wife, dramaturg Sarah Lunnie, their two children, and their dog. joshuakahanbrody.com
The Bengsons
Music
Abigail & Shaun Bengson are a married composing and performing duo based in New York City and Vermont who have performed across the country and around the world. Their video, The Keep Going Song, has been viewed over 4 million times. Three of their singles have been featured on “So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX). Their theater work includes My Joy Is Heavy! (Arena Stage), The Keep Going Song (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), Hundred Days (La Jolla Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, U.S. Tour), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (ATL’s Humana Festival), Anything That Gives Off Light (Edinburgh Theatre Festival), You’ll Still Call Me By Name (New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow), and Iphigenia in Aulis (Classic Stage Company). They have received the Jonathan Larson and Richard Rogers awards and nominations for the Drama Desk, Drama League and Lucile Lortel awards. Proud parents to Louie and Charlie.
Arnulfo Maldonado
scenic design
Tony nominee for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for A Strange Loop. Broadway: A Strange Loop; Topdog/ Underdog; Trouble in Mind. Off-Broadway Shhhh (Atlantic); one in two (The New Group); Nollywood Dreams, School Girls… (MCC); Sugar in Our Wounds [Lucille Lortel Award] (MTC); A Strange Loop [Special Citation Obie], Dance Nation, Selling Kabul, Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons); To My Girls (Second Stage); A Case for the Existence of God, Fires in the Mirror (Signature). Regional: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. International tour: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. 2020 Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: arnulfo. maldonado.design arnulfomaldonado.com
Dominique Fawn Hill
costume design
Dominique is a Bronx native. Design credits include regional: An Untitled New Play by Justin Timberlake, One Night in Miami…, Pipeline (City Theatre); Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera); Mlima’s Tale (Profile Theatre); White Noise (Profile Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rent (Portland Center Stage). Off-Broadway: Stew (Soho Rep); Dark Girl Chronicles: Chronicle X (The Shed); 125th & FREEdom (National Black Theatre); Grace (Ford’s Theatre); Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons/ CTG); Fat Ham (The Public Theater). MFA, The University of California, San Diego. Website: dominiquefhill.com
Stacey Derosier
lighting design
Weightless (The Women’s Project), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane), Fat Ham (The Public Theater and National Black Theater), Wedding Band (Theatre for a New Audience), sandblasted (Vineyard Theatre/WP Theater), The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (The Shed), The Last of the Love Letters (Atlantic Theater Company), The Great Filter (Wild Project), Stew (Page 73), Playing Hot! (Pipeline Theater Company), Mies Julie & Dance of Death (Classic Stage Company), Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater) and 2018 Lilly Award Daryl Roth Prize recipient.
Ben Truppin-Brown
sound design
Ben is a Brooklyn-based sound designer and audio engineer, and works as an audiovisual designer for the theatre consultancy firm Charcoalblue. His work has been heard on Broadway at Studio 54 and the Hudson Theatre, Off-Broadway at theatres across New York City, at regional theatres and music venues throughout the country and internationally. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association.
Sarah Lunnie
dramaturgy
Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me (also NYTW, Clubbed Thumb); A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hillary and Clinton; and Grand Horizons. Off-Broadway: Out of Time (NAATCO/The Public), Shipwreck (The Public, Woolly Mammoth), The Thin Place (Playwrights Horizons) and, with The Mad Ones, Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova) and Miles For Mary (Playwrights, the Bushwick Starr). Regional: Humana Festival premieres of The Christians, Death Tax, The Hour of Feeling and Under Construction, among others. Sarah is the senior dramaturg of The Public Theater.
Steph Paul
choreography
A director/ choreographer who clears space for uninhibited physical truth. What comes up must come out. She weaves together her lived experience as a first-gen Haitian-American, body percussionist, dancer and athlete and is passionate about building a team. Credits include NYSAF, KCRep, Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Humana Festival, Chicago Shakespeare, Studio Theatre. International: Royal Opera House Muscat, National Theatre of Scotland, NYU Abu Dhabi. Upcoming: Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center), How to Defend Yourself (NYTW). Awards: 2021 Princess Grace Award winner, 2019 Helen Hayes Award winner. stephpaul.com
Roxana Khan
production stage manager
MTC debut. Off-Broadway: Epiphany, Greater Clements (LCT); Mies Julie, The Dance of Death (CSC); Kings (The Public); Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Westport Country Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse; Boston Court, Wallis Annenberg Center and others. For Jeremy.
Jeff Augustin
Playwright
Joshua Kahan Brody
Director
The Bengsons
Music
Arnulfo Maldonado
scenic design
Dominique Fawn Hill
costume design
Stacey Derosier
lighting design
Ben Truppin-Brown
sound design
Sarah Lunnie
dramaturgy
Steph Paul
choreography
Roxana Khan
production stage manager
Abigail Bengson, Shaun Bengson, Chris Myers in
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (2022-2023)
Photo by Matthew Murphy
Billy Eugene Jones, Abigail in
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (2022-2023)
Photo by Matthew Murphy
Abigail Bengson, Shaun Bengson, Chris Myers in
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (2022-2023)
Photo by Matthew Murphy
Shaun Bengson, Abigail Bengson, Chris Myers in
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (2022-2023)
Photo by Matthew Murphy
Abigail Bengson, Shaun Bengson in
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (2022-2023)
Photo by Matthew Murphy
Chris Myers, Billy Eugene Jones in
Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (2022-2023)
Photo by Matthew Murphy