Directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe
​October 9th - November 6th 2021

Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm
​Sundays at 5:00pm
For Ages 18 and up

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About Family

Family is a play about being born into a violent planet. After their father's funeral, half-siblings Alice, Linus, and David sit quietly in the house they grew up in. Soon, they begin to hear, smell, taste, and see very awful things.

What people are saying

"Dark, creepy, and unnerving, but also terribly funny."

"Goes to the heart of traumatic family life in a beautiful, darkly comic, sculpted way."
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​"Behind all the funhouse mirrors and surreal madness, however, is a very moving story about the emotional damage caused by distant parents and family secrets."

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About the Playwright

Celine Song's play ENDLINGS received its world premiere in 2019 at American Repertory Theater, and it had its New York premiere in 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop. It has been named a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and it was selected for the 2018 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. The play was also included on the 2017 Kilroys list. Celine is a member of the Public Theater’s 2016-2017 Emerging Writers Group, Ars Nova’s 2014-2015 Play Group, and The Orchard Project's inaugural NYC Greenhouse 2018. She was a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow from 2017-2018, a 2014 & 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference Playwright, and she was a 2017 semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship. Her play TOM & ELIZA was a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation's 2016 Relentless Award. Celine has been awarded residencies, fellowships, and commissions from MTC/Sloan, Sundance, the Millay Colony for the arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia. Celine was a staff writer on Amazon's THE WHEEL OF TIME.

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Cast

Alice: Rebby Yuer Foster
Linus: Blake Stone
​David: Kai Hynes

Rebby Yuer Foster

Blake Stone

Kai Hynes

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Creative

Director & Set Designer: Samantha Van Der Merwe
Lighting Designer & Video Engineer: Anthony Arnista
Sound Designer: Matt Wiens
Costume Designer: Anand Boucher- Colbert
Technical Director: Victoria Hilton
Set Design Assistant: Katarina Yo
Carpenter/Lighting Assistant: Spencer Fork
Carpenter: Bmo    
Stage Manager: Laurel Wilde
Assistant Stage Manager: Emily Hogan
Dramaturg: Pancho Savery
Fight/Intimacy Director: Heath Hyun Houghton
Front of House Manager: Bridge Donnelly
Graphic Design: Ella Higgins

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FAMILY is generously supported by our major donors; Ronni Lacroute, Jessie Jonas & Ellyn Bye. 
We'd also like to thank the foundations listed below, members of Shaking the Tree's Board, as well as many other individual supporters. To support this show, or any others in our season, please visit our DONATE page