2025-26 Season 23

fire work (2025)

An NNPN Rolling World Premiere
FIRE WORK by Mary Glen Fredrick
Directed by Shanara Gabrielle

March 20 - April 13, 2025

By day, Eleanor and Bartholomew toil in the glass factory. By night, they light up the skies with fireworks. But when sweeping reforms threaten their already-precarious reality, Eleanor becomes the unexpected leader of a ragtag band of revolutionaries determined to send a message to the powers that be. With heist thrills and disturbingly funny twists, fire work ignites a fierce, anti-capitalist fable for our times; set in a heightened, slightly absurd world where past and future blur, it explores survival, love, friendship, and the explosive cost of complacency in a system built to burn us out. Fierce, funny, and haunting, this deeply original play delves into labor, power, and community, illuminating issues of economic disparity and the fight for agency. A Rolling World Premiere with the National New Play Network, fire work crackles with urgency and heart, offering a visceral theatrical experience that sparks reflection on the world we live in today.

SHOULD I COME TO THE SHOW?

You might like this if you like…

  • Sorry to Bother You 

  • The Fantastic Mr. Fox

  • The Hunger Games / Divergent / Legend

  • Plays by Caryl Churchill or Eugene Ionesco

  • Snowpiercer

Themes

  • Worker Solidarity

  • Youth-Led Resistance

  • Capitalism & The Future

Vibes

  • Calvin & Hobbes meets V for Vendetta 

  • Raging Against the Machine

  • Surviving Dystopia

  • DIY Rebellion

  • Growing Pains & Young Love

Cast

Gigi Cammarato as Khady
Travis Xavier* as Gabe
Renee Elizabeth Wilson as Coach
Raghad Makhlouf as Suzan

Production Team

Kareem Fahmy / Playwright
Reginald L. Douglas~/ Director
Nadir Bey / Scenic Designer
Minjoo Kim^ / Lighting Designer
Cidney Forkpah / Costume Designer
Hailey LaRoe / Projections Designer
Logan Benson / Assistant Costume Designer & Wardrobe Supervisor
Brandon Cook & Sayf Turkomani / Sound Designer
Isabel Simoes deCarvalho / Props Designer
Mrinali Thanwani / Scenic Charge
Siani Nicole / Choreographer
Nathanael Hatchett / Basketball Consultant
Regina Vitale / Stage Manager
Isabella Tapia / Assistant Stage Manager

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The theatre operates under an agreement between Theater Alliance and Actors’ Equity Association.
^Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. This theatre operates under an agreement between Theater Alliance and United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
~Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

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