Joshua shares a singular bond with his luminous grandmother, the woman who introduced him to Medea, Mapplethorpe, and Broadway, and set him on the path to becoming a playwright. In this deeply funny and moving love letter to complicated families, Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Prayer for the French Republic) unravels thirty years of family history, with a little Rashomon-style assistance from his mother.
WE HAD A WORLD is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Marc & Robyn Abrams
Jewish Philanthropy Circle Members
Adele & Joel Sandberg, Nedra Oren, Jill & Hal Gaffin, David & Jan Ichel, Zelda Kloner’s Gift Fund/Heidi Berghuis, Roz & Charles Stuzin, In Memory of Nanci Deutsch, Dorothy & Aaron Podhurst, Susan & Steven Caller, Nancy & Norman Lipoff, Debbie & Dr. Michael Troner, Lynn & Linda Newport, Lenore & Stanley Weinstein.
Robert Russell Memorial Foundation
Patti (RENEE) is thrilled to return to GableStage after last season’s production of Prayer for the French Republic. Previous performances include: The Last Yiddish Speaker, Last Night in Inwood (Theatre Lab); A Delicate Balance (Island City Stage); Fiddler on the Roof (The Wick Theatre); Picnic, Our Town, The Spitfire Grill (Palm Beach Dramaworks), and Caroline or Change (Actor’s Playhouse). Some previous performances at GableStage include Summer 1976, The Price, The Guys, Defiance, Sons of the Prophet, Casa Valentina, If I Forget and Ordinary Americans. Patti has been performing in South Florida for thirty five years from Miami to Jupiter. She has toured nationally for seventeen years with Menopause the Musical and is a Carbonell, Silver Palm, and New Times Best Award recipient for her work. As a daughter, sister, wife, mother, and proud grandmother to 4 grandchildren, enormous gratitude to Bari Newport and Stuart Meltzer for the gift to tell this story.
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Stuart Meltzer (Director) is the Artistic Director of Zoetic Stage in Miami. Select works he’s directed include the world premieres Fear Up Harsh, Captiva, Stripped, Wrongful Death and Other Circus Acts by Christopher Demos-Brown, South Beach Babylon, Clark Gable Slept Here, After, American Rhapsody by Michael McKeever, GringoLandia by Hannah Benitez, Wicked Child by David Rosenberg, ¡Fuacata! or A Latina’s Guide to Surviving the Universe and Cuban Chicken Soup co-written with Elena Maria Garcia. Other select works include Fiddler on the Roof, The Comeuppance, The Pillowman, POTUS, Clyde’s, Cabaret, Next to Normal, Mlima’s Tale, American Son, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, The Wolves, Sweeney Todd, The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time, Fun Home, Sunday in the Park with George, The Caretaker, Betrayal, Dancing Lessons, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Passion, Detroit, I Am My Own Wife, All New People. Select Regional: Red Speedo, The Actors, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, Gint, Lysistrata and One for the Road. Meltzer has been nominated for over twenty Carbonell Awards and has received six for his work as director and one for his play The Goldberg Variations. He lives with his husband Michael.
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