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Romeo + Juliet's Tommy Dorfman Will Star in NYTW's Becoming Eve

Written by Emil Weinstein, Becoming Eve is based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein.

Linda Buchwald

Linda Buchwald

| Off-Broadway |

January 21, 2025

Tommy Dorfman
Tommy Dorfman
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New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) has announced that Tommy Dorfman (Romeo + Juliet, 13 Reasons Why) will star as Chava in Becoming Eve.

Written by Emil Weinstein (A League of Their Own), based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein, and directed by Tyne Rafaeli (Usual Girls), Becoming Eve will run at Abrons Arts Center March 19-April 27, with opening night set for April 7.

A week before the High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family by building a bridge between orthodoxy and modernity. One of these rabbis is Chava, the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family and destined to become a leader of the next generation before the revelation of her trans identity clashed explosively with the strictly gendered world in which she was raised.

The production will feature scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Enver Chakartash, lighting design by Ben Stanton, sound design by UptownWorks – Daniela Hart, Noel Nichols, and Bailey Trieweiler, puppet design by Amanda Villalobos, and music by Daniel Kluger.

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