SEEKING ASYLUM 

Written by Mari Kornhauser and directed by Reese Johanson, Seeking Asylum is an immersive one-act, two-character play (starring Sallay Shameka Gray and Kathy Randels). A climate change exploration, it takes place in a speculative world of 2040 in what once was the United States. Based on the original 29 questions immigrants filled out on the ships’ manifests in the early 20th Century and then used in interviews at Points of Entry, the play explores how citizenship is not guaranteed. No one is immune. It can happen to anyone, even people in power. One minute they’re in, the next, they’re out, and so are you as the political borders of nations change.