BORDER PEOPLE

Written & Performed by DAN HOYLE

Off-Broadway Premiere directed by NICOLE A. WATSON
Scenic Design: FRANK OLIVA
Lighting Design: JIMMY LAWLOR
Sound Design: JORGE OLIVO
Video Design: YANA BIRYKOVA
Production Stage Manager: KARA KAUFMAN
Press Representation: MENDIOLA ARTS MANAGEMENT
Graphic Design: the watsons
Originally developed with and directed by CHARLIE YARON

Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres
502 West 53rd Street (off Tenth Avenue)
www.theworkingtheater.org
January 25 – February 22, 2020

NYC Borough Tour
March 3 -14, 2020

The only regret you will have after seeing BORDER PEOPLE is that there is only one Dan Hoyle. You will want to bottle him and his work up and distribute it throughout the United States and beyond.

Hoyle takes on several personas – Mexican, Muslim, Black, gay, street folks, ex-cons, females, anyone who has been marginalized – complete with accents and inflections. As he bounces around from the South Bronx and Arizona to Canada and Mexico, he tells the poignant stories of those seeking what we Americans so often take for granted – security, opportunity, safety, and life itself. He has interviewed people living in border towns and south of the border, solar-sourced farms, deported immigrant shelters, housing projects, police departments, and everywhere in between; and in each case Hoyle forcefully and respectfully tells their stories, sometimes in Spanish with subtitles.

BORDER PEOPLE reminds us of the universality of the human spirit, tugs at your heart strings, and hopefully forever changes how you view “the immigration problem.” Brilliant journalistic theatre perfectly timed.

- Laurie Lawson -