This funny, trenchant, and powerful Pulitzer Prize Finalist play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever. The New York Times calls Jacobs-Jenkins, who is a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, one of the country's most original and unsettling artists." This whip-smart satire will be directed by the incomparable and longtime Alley Theatre artist James Black.
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Wesley Whitson as Dean/Devin
Karina Pal Montaño-Bowers as Kendra/Jenna
Skyler Sinclair as Ani/Sasha/Callie
Brooke Wilson as Gloria/Nan
Tadrian White as Miles/Shawn/Rashaad
Brandon Hearnsberger as Lorin
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REVIEWS:
Houston Chronicle: “GLORIA at 4th Wall Theatre is sharp workplace satire at its best”
Houston Press: “Actors Shine in Disruptive GLORIA at 4th Wall”
Broadway World: “GLORIA at 4th Wall Theatre Company Presents a Smart and Seething Take on Violence in the Digital Age”
PREVIEWS AND MENTIONS:
Houston Press: “James Black Directs Gloria: A Dark, Funny and Searing Satire at 4th Wall Theatre Co.”
Broadway World: “GLORIA Comes to 4th Wall Theatre Company in March”
The Leader: “Sawyer Yards theatre debuting newest play next month”
Houston City Book: “Hilariously Depressing New Show Paints Picture of Millennials’ Cubicle Plight”
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Stage Manager | Kalin Menzel
Set Design | Kevin Rigdon
Lighting Design | Kevin Rigdon
Sound Design | Jon Harvey
Costume Design | Paige A. Willson
Properties Master | Corey Nance
Fight Director | Adam Noble
Scenic Production Team | Santiago Sepeda and Mary Carol
Songwriter/Recording Artist of “Into The Mist” | Alli Villines
Crew | Daniel Regojo, James Morris
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was born in Washington, D.C. on December 29, 1984. He graduated high school as Valedictorian and went on to study Anthropology at Princeton University from which he graduated in 2006. In 2007, he earned a Masters in Performance Studies from NYU. That same year he started work in the New Yorker's fiction department as an editorial assistant. It was during this time he wrote his first play Neighbors. In 2010 he quit his job and moved to Berlin through the Fulbright Fellowship Program. While in Germany, he wrote his next plays An Octoroon and Appropriate along with the start of Gloria. Jacobs-Jenkins returned to the U.S. in 2012 to study at Juilliard's Lilia Acheson Wallace Playwrights program.
During this time, he also worked at NYU as an adjunct professor, Baryshnikov Arts Center where he had a residency, Signature Theatre’s Residency program where he also had a playwright residency, as well as various teaching positions at Princeton. Most recently in 2016 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.
