FAIRVIEW

by

Jackie Sibblies Drury

directed by

Aaron Brown

Performance Dates:
May 25 - June 17, 2023

Where:
1824 Spring Street, STUDIO 101
Houston, TX 77007


The play begins with The Frasiers, a middle-class American family preparing for a dinner party. However, this seemingly typical family drama soon takes a turn into a metatheatrical roller coaster ride that ultimately confronts the audience with their own assumptions and biases. The recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, FAIRVIEW offers a powerful commentary on race, identity, and the complexities of representation in America.

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award for Female Playwrights

“dazzling and ruthless” - The New York Times

Special Performance Dates:

  • May 25- Preview

  • May 26 - Opening Night

  • June 4 - Open-Captioned

    • Talkback with cast led by Dr. Robert Shimko from the University of Houston

  • June 11 - Post-Show Dialogue on Racism feat. The Center for Healing Racism

  • June 12 - Pay-What-You-Will Night

  • June 17 - Closing Night

About the Play

  • Ciara Shabree as Keisha

    ShaWanna Renee Rivon as Beverly

    Jasmine Renee Thomas as Jasmine

    Derrick Brent II as Dayton

    Wesley Whitson as Mack

    Courtney Lomelo as Bets

    Faith Fossett as Suze

    Drake Simpson as Jimbo

  • Set Designer | Nicholas Graves

    Lighting Designer | Christina Giannelli

    Sound Designer | Robert Leslie Meek

    Costumer Designer | Leah Smith

    Properties | Samantha Hyman

  • Assistant Director | Christian Tannous

    Production Stage Manager | Kalin Menzel

    Set Construction | Santiago Sepeda

    Lighting Intern | Lydia Gafford

  • Jackie Sibblies Drury is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Her critically acclaimed play FAIRVIEW premiered in 2018 at Soho Rep. Other plays include WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT A PRESENTATION ABOUT THE HERERO OF NAMIBIA, FORMERLY KNOWN AS SOUTH WEST AFRICA, FROM THE GERMAN SUDWESTAFRIKA, BETWEEN THE YEARS 1884-1915; REALLY; and MARYS SEACOLE.

    Drury's plays have been presented by New York City Players and Abrons Arts Center, Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Company One, and The Bush Theatre in London, among others.

    Her work has been developed at The Bellagio Center, Sundance, The Ground Floor, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, A.C.T., The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, NYTW, PRELUDE, The Bushwick Starr, and The MacDowell Colony.

    Drury is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a United States Artists Gracie Fellow, and has received a Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, a Jerome Fellowship at The LARK, a Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, and is a winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

    Most recently, she co-wrote ILLINOIS along with Justin Peck, a musical based on Sufjan Steven's 2005 concept album of the same name.

  • View the digital show program at this link.

FAIRVIEW is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

“…dazzling and ruthless” -The New York Times

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"outstanding, frustrating, hilarious" - New Yorker

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"[a] vehement, searching, fourth-wall-demolishing [play]" -New York Magazine

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“…dazzling and ruthless” -The New York Times 〰️ "outstanding, frustrating, hilarious" - New Yorker 〰️ "[a] vehement, searching, fourth-wall-demolishing [play]" -New York Magazine 〰️