March 8 – April 9, 2022
Judson Church

2022

Hart Island

“Mason Holdings’ haunting Hart Island epitomizes downtown, avant-garde performance at its best: cerebral, theatrical, scrupulously researched, and bursting with heart.”

—Theatre Is Easy

Hart Island is a theatrical multimedia meditation on New York City’s Potter’s Field and the humans connected to it, living and dead. It weaves together the voices of the friends and family of Hart Island’s deceased, Rikers Island inmates and gravediggers, and fictional documentary narration.

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“Mason Holdings’ haunting Hart Island epitomizes downtown, avant-garde performance at its best: cerebral, theatrical, scrupulously researched, and bursting with heart.”
—Theatre Is Easy

“A profound meditation on what New York City and the rest of the world has gone through in the past few years: a spectrum of emotion from abject grief to acceptance.”
—Theater Scene

“This theatrical event should be seen and heard both for its expansive intellectual reach and its extraordinarily immersive empathy.”
—Theatre Reviews From My Seat

“Powerful and beautifully staged.”
—TheatreMania

“Absorbing.”
—The New Yorker

Author: Tracy Weller Director: Kris Thor Set: Christopher and Justin Swader Costumes: Natalie Loveland Lights: Christina Tang Sound: Philip Carluzzo Video/Projections: Yana Biryukova Producer: Reed Ridgley Associate Producer: Rashad Bailey Assistant Lighting Designer: Rafael Abdulmajid Assistant Video/Projection Designer: Tatiana Stolpovskaya

Julie Asriyan, Nora Cole, Jimmy Crowell II, James Foster, Jr., Daniel Kublick, David Samuel, Tracy Weller

Production Manger: Niluka Hotaling, Production Stage Manager: Liz Nielsen, Assistant Stage Manager: Rodney West, COVID Safety Manager: Gabriel Generally, Press Representative: Everyman Agency, Wardrobe Supervisor: Bonnie Puk, House Manager: Charles Shipman, Master Electrician: Eric Nightengale, Audio Supervisor: Vance Garcia, Video Supervisor: Adrian Cameron, Light Board Programmer/Board Op: Rafael Abdulmajid