Past Work

Selected

Announcing our partnership with
New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre

August 2020

We are thrilled to announce this partnership with New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. Artistic Director Jacob Padrón is leading this landmark company in a pivot away from the limitations of traditional regional theater to work at the intersection of Art and Activism.

We are so excited to be a part of it!

October 2020 — ALL RISE

Long Wharf Theatre

2020 Blockbuster Season Recap

Long Wharf Theatre & Worldwide

The reviews are in! SCOTUS had a “Blockbuster season” (NY Times/PBS Newshour/Sacramento Bee)

We recapped 3 of the season’s most important cases on Saturday August 15 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern.

Past posts about the event:

The brilliant Sarah Deer Sarah Deer (@SarahDeer) joins our panel tonight!

Sarah Deer is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma and a professor at the University of Kansas. A lawyer by training but an advocate in practice, Deer’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of federal Indian law and victims' rights, using indigenous feminist principles as a framework. Sarah describes herself in her Twitter bio as a Sovereignty Hobbyist, which makes her a perfect nerd to join our crew. This is Sarah’s first SCOTUS theater!

proceeds to be donated to:

Access Reproductive Care (ARC) - Southeast helps Southerners and their families navigate the pathways to access safe, compassionate, and affordable reproductive care by providing financial and logistical support and building power in our communities through advocacy, education, and leadership development.

our cast!

These are the brilliant lawyers and actors who will bring the justices to life this Saturday August 15.

SCOTUS Theater Company Members:

• Giovanni Adams -- LA-based actor/director, TWO BLACK BOYS/LOVE IS A DIRTY WORD

• Varín Ayala -- NYC-based actor, THE LOBBY PROJECT, LIE TO ME

• Katharine Chin -- Beacon, NY-based actor/creator, CORIOLANUS (NYSF/Public Theater)

• Meredith Dearborn -- SF-based lawyer

• Clove Galilee -- LA-based actor/director, AD Trick Saddle, WICKETS

• Amy Lizardo -- Ashland-based actor, MOTHER ROAD (OSF/Arena)

• Ali Loeb -- SF-based lawyer

• Robert Parsons -- SF-based actor, FREELAND, ALMOST FAMOUS)

• Ben Randle -- NYC-based director, HELLO AGAIN (Drama League Director Fest 2020)
  
  

And Guest Star!
Godfrey Simmons -- Hartford, CT based actor/director and Artistic Director of Hartbeat Ensemble

You can get a preview of their brilliance (and get some background on the cases!) in a series of Sarah Cooper inspired lip-syncs at our YouTube channel:

announcing our panel

Abdi Soltani is Executive Director of ACLU Northern California. @abdisoltani

Imani Gandy is Senior Legal and Policy Editor for Rewire News and a host of the Boom!Lawyered podcast. @angryblacklady

Leah Litman  is a constitutional law scholar at the University of Michigan and one of the hosts of the StrictScrutiny podcast. @leahlitman

Ari Waldman is an expert in cybersecurity and the law and LGBTQ rights, who is Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University. @ariezrawaldman

more about the event

The reviews are in! SCOTUS had a “Blockbuster season” (NY Times/PBS Newshour/Sacramento Bee)

We’ll recap 3 of the season’s most important cases on Saturday August 15 at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern.

The online dramatic reading will feature members of our company, and a script created from decisions with help by our resident artists, lawyers and scholars. We hope our online reading will be at least as entertaining as virtual arguments.

Regardless, it will offer audiences a look at the way the Supreme Court is deciding on access to abortion, LGBT labor protections, and sovereignty of Indian lands.

The reading will be followed by an expert panel to shed light on it all.

Please join us!

Past Work

Selected

SUMMER 2020 Long Wharf Theater

Blockbuster Season Recap

SUMMER 2018 EAST WEST PLAYERS, LA

An encore reading of Jennings v. Rodriguez (originally seen at Z Space in San Francisco) in partnership with East West Players as part of their Counter Culture Series. Our panel was Ahilan Arulanantham (MacArthur Fellow/Senior Counsel ACLU of Southern California,) who represented the respondents in the case and Christina Mansfield, Co-Executive Director of Freedom for Immigrants. Dorothy Fortenberry moderated.

• Chief Justice John Roberts Gio Adams

• Justice Sonia Sotomayor/Gretta Soto Moreno Amy Lizardo

• Justice Elena Kagan Anna Lamadrid

• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dian Kobayashi

• Justice Samuel Alito Dana Lee

• Justice Neil Gorsuch Funmi Showole Amubieya

• Justice Anthony Kennedy Robert Parsons

• Justice Stephen Breyer Dan Gold

• Justice Clarence Thomas/Sylvester Owino Ben Guillory

• Council for the respondent Ahilan Arulanantham Anil Kumar

• Council for the Petitioner Malcolm Stewart John Lavelle

• Clerk Araceli Prasarttonogosoth

March 2017 HarveY Milk Center for the arts

December 2017 “YOu should have th body Z Space, San Francisco

Reading of arguments in Jennings v. Rodriguez with excerpts from stories of people held in immigration detention. Event supported by a generous grant from Cal Humanities. Panel was Imani Gandy (Senior Legal Analyst at Rewire,) Tina Shull (Soros Fellow at Freedom for Immigrants) and Vasudha Talla (Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.)

Justices (in Order of Seniority:)

• Robert Parsons- Justice Anthony Kennedy

• Darryl V. Jones - Justice Clarence Thomas

• Wendy vanden Heuvel- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Michael Ferguson- Justice Steven Breyer

• Stephen Muterspaugh- Chief Justice John Roberts

• Richard Fredrick- Justice Samuel Alito

• Amy Lizardo - Justice Sonia Sotomayor

• Clove Galilee- Justice Elena Kagan

• Joel Mullennix - Justice Neil Gorsuch

Council (in Order of Appearance)

• Amy Kossow - Malcolm Stewart

• Shoresh Alaudini - Ahilan Arulanantham

• Atosa Babaoff - Clerk

Fall 2016 The Flight Deck, Oakland

Our first event! Reading of arguments in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. Panel was Kathleen Hartnet (Former Associate White House Counsel,) Daniel Grossman (Expert Witness for the Prosecution in WWH v. Hellerstedt, Professor: UCSF, Director: ANSIRH, Principal Investigator: Texas Policy Evaluation Project,) Samara Azam (Executive Director: Access Women’s Health) moderated.

Justices, In order of Seniority

• Anthony Kennedy -- Robert Parsons

• Clarence Thomas -- Mujaheed Abdul-Rasheed

• Ruth bader Ginsburg -- Wendy vanden Heuvel 

• Stephen Breyer — Micheal Ferguson

• Chief Justice John Roberts -- Michael Ray Wisely

• Samuel Alito -- Will Marchetti

• Sonia Sotomayor -- Amy Lizardo

• Elena Kagan -- Clove Galilee 

Counsel, In order of Appearance:

• Stephanie Toti - Atosa Babaoff

• Donald Verrilli -- Kathleen Hartnet

• Scott Keller -- Jeremy Kahn

our company

These are the talented actors, lawyers and scholars who have committed their brilliance to the dramatic exploration of our Nation’s Highest Court.

They are partners in the conception, development and promotion of our work.

More info coming soon!

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