not-for-profit: or the equity, diversity and inclusion play
By francisca da silveira
Co-Directed by Paige Conway and Jeannine Gaskin
October 24, 2024 - November 09, 2024
7:00pm, Thu/Fri/Sat and 3:00pm, Sun, Oct. 27 & Nov. 3, James Levin Theatre. Previews Oct. 24 & Oct. 25. Opening Night is Oct. 26.
EVERY TICKET is “Choose What You Pay” and will be offered online, over the phone, and at the Box Office.
This performance runs approximately 95 minutes with no intermission.
It’s a typical day for the employees of RiseUp, an education nonprofit focused on urban youth mentorship―Interim CEO Lisa is dealing with un-woke board members who can’t remember what organization they’re supporting, Gen X Melissa is trying to use the latest Gen Z slang in a sentence, Kiki thinks they’re being held back because they go by “they,” Nadine is too lazy to call IT even though she hasn’t received an email in a month, “cultural” consultant Nick is a total FREE-gan who spends most of the day raiding the staff lunch room for freebies, and Alkanna’s got the tea-flavored Lacroix on everybody. Will they take the time out of their day to…you know…check on the children? francisca da silveira’s (can i touch it?) not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play) takes a satirical look inside a fictitious non-profit going through it.
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The James Levin Theatre is ADA-compliant featuring a patron elevator and an all-gender, wheelchair accessible restroom.
Ensemble Members:
Diwe Augustin-Glave, Alexandrea Decatur-Benally, Jeannine Gaskin, Rachel Lee Kolis, Michael J. Montanus, Sydney Smith
SPECIAL CAMEO PERFORMERS:
Cindy Marx, Joanne Montagner-Hull, Dan Petricig
The Creative Production Team Includes:
Producer: Raymond Bobgan
Line Producer: Paige Conway
Assistant Director and Stage Manager: Lauren Lash
Scenic Designer: Cameron Caley Michalak
Costume Designer: Amanda Rowe-Van Allen
Sound Designer: J’Niah Davison
Lighting Designer: Libby Zamiska
Props Designer: Mia Jones
Projection Designer: Jasmine A. Golphin
enhance your experience
Buy your tickets to one of the following performances for extra perks!
Non-Profit Worker Night
Friday, October 25, 2024
In celebration of those of us who work in the Industry!
Ticket purchases for this performance include the following perks:
- Pre-show reception (with light appetizers and beverages)─6pm to 6:45pm
- Performance of not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play) ─7pm
- Post-show talk with playwright francisca da silveira
- Post show beverages
Opening Night Celebration
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Tickets for this performance includes admission to a post-show reception with light appetizers and selection of complimentary beverages.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Non-Profit Sector
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Post-show Talkback
Ticket purchases for this performance include a post-show talkback. Join us for what is sure to be a lively conversation about how the themes in not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play) play out in real life in the not-for-profit sector. Topics will include gender equality, board engagement and more. Thanks to promotional partner YWCA Cleveland.
FREE Bev Friday
Enjoy a selection of post-performance beverages on CPT and mingle with other audience members EVERY.FRIDAY.NIGHT.
About the playwright francisca da silveira
francisca da silveira is a Cape Verdean-American playwright and Boston native who holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MSc in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh. She has been featured in ArtsBoston, The Los Angeles Times and American Theatre magazine. Her plays have been developed with Theatre503 (London), The Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Company One Theatre (Boston), The Fire This Time Festival (New York), The Playwrights Realm (New York), The Public Theater (New York) and La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego). Fran’s play not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity and inclusion play) was featured in The Playwrights’ Realm’s INK’D Festival in April 2021 and in La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA New Works Series in July 2021. Her play can i touch it? was featured in the National New Play Network’s 2020 National Showcase of New Plays and, in 2022-2023, received a Rolling World Premiere at Company One Theatre (Boston), Rogue Machine Theatre (Los Angeles) and Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland).
Fran was a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow and is currently a member of The Public Theater’s 2020-2023 Emerging Writers Group and a 2022-2023 Jerome Fellow with the Playwrights’ Center. She is working on commissions from the University of Virginia’s Drama Department and Brooklyn-based theater Colt Coeur.
ABOUT DIRECTOR JEANNINE GASKIN
Jeannine Gaskin directed India Burton’s short play Trade Flowers for Salt for the In Our Own Words – Our Stories Our Voices Series. Her most recent directing credit was Insurrection: Holding History by Robert O’Hara at Convergence-Continuum. Other directing credits include Devised Blues: Uncut & Funky at Baldwin – Wallace University and co-directed Until the Flood by Dael Orlandersmith at Malone University with Craig Joseph & Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel with Sarah May also at Ensemble Theatre.
Photos by Steve Wagner