Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying

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Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying 
by Jessica Huang
Directed by David Mendizabal!
With: Tina Chilip, Jules Latimer, Hayward Leach, Jennifer Paredes, Neeta Thadani, Ricardo Vazquez, Frank Wood
Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying tells an epic tale of grief and global warming through the intersecting lives of Earth’s human and non-human inhabitants in 2045. Katrina and her unborn baby head north in search of snow; Hugo seeks purpose in a world without resources; and after a series of unnatural events, recently widowed Carla is swept into a cosmic relationship with an ageless being that challenges her understanding of time and extinction. Together with a young lynx and a swarm of locusts, their journeys become transmissions of hope and loss against the backdrop of planetary collapse.
Jessica Huang is a playwright, book writer and lyricist based in New York, from Minnesota. Her plays include: The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (History Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Season, Barry and Bernice Stavis Award, Kilroy's List), Mother of Exiles (NNPN Annual Showcase, Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, Kendeda Prize Finalist), Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying (EMOS Prize), and Purple Cloud (Theater Mu, CAATA). Her audioplay Song of the Northwoods is available on Audible on April 21, 2022. She is currently working on commissions with Manhattan Theatre Club, Timeline Theater, Theater Masters, History Theatre and Theater Mu, and is developing an original TV show with Warner Bros. Television. Jessica was the inaugural 4 Seasons Resident Playwright, and has received awards from the Jerome Foundation, The Dramatists Guild, and The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation. She has developed work at The Hermitage, Hedgebrook, New York Stage and Film, The MacDowell Colony, Space on Ryder Farm, and Tofte Lake Center, among many others. She is a three-time Playwrights' Center fellow, and has been a member of Ars Nova Play Group, Civilians R&D Group, Two River Theatre's Emerging Writers Group and Page 73's Interstate 73. She is a graduate of the Playwrights Program at Juilliard.

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Dates: One Night Only: April 6, 2022

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