Cast
About
Every January 6th, the Latine community of Egg Harbor City, NJ gathered in the basement cafeteria of St. Nicholas School for a celebration of the Feast of Los Reyes Magos, or Three Kings Day. Writer-performer Iraisa Ann Reilly invites the audience to celebrate and reclaim that date, introducing the audience to her family, her hometown, and her epiphany at the 1998 Feast that changed her life forever. Featuring music, storytelling, and good old 90s nostalgia – a show for everybody’s holiday season.
Iraisa Ann Reilly is a writer, actor, and educator originally from New Jersey (and proud of it). She recently performed her solo show, A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998 as a workshop production with Simpatico Theatre in Philadelphia. The play was also supported by a Lucille Lortel Micro-Commission and recently performed as part of Teatro Circulo and Latinx Playwrights Circle’s Inaugural One-Act Festival, Sol Project’s Sol Fest, and the New Harmony Project Alumni Reading Series. As a writer, her work has been developed and recognized by Teatro del Sol, Atlantic Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Two River Theatre, Arkansas New Play Festival, Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, Theatre Exile, The New Harmony Project, Texas A&M University, Michigan State, Latinx Playwrights Circle, Art House Productions, and the Yale Drama Series. She is currently under commission with Arden Theatre Company and is a member of Soho Rep’s Writer/ Director lab, 2024-2025. Acting Credits include: Off-Broadway: According to the Chorus (Mallory, New Light Theatre Project) Regional: The Wolves (#14, Philadelphia Theatre Company). Iraisa Ann is an adjunct professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch and is a teaching artist with Roundabout Theatre Company, ESPA Primary Stages, and Dreamyard Inc. MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. BA in Theatre and English from the University of Notre Dame.
Estefanía Fadul is a Brooklyn-based Colombian-American director, and co-Artistic Director of Ensemble Studio Theatre. Recent projects include the world premieres of Hotel Happy by Camilo Almonacid (Houses on the Moon), Eva Luna by Caridad Svich (Repertorio Español), The Garbologists by Lindsay Joelle (Philadelphia Theater Company), and Carla’s Quince created with The Voting Project Ensemble (Drama League Award nomination). Estefanía has developed new plays and musicals off-Broadway and regionally at the Public Theater, INTAR, Playwrights’ Realm, NYTW, Chautauqua, Audible, Juilliard, and more. She is the inaugural recipient of NYSAF’s Pfaelzer Award. Affiliations: Drama League Board of Directors, Latinx Theatre Commons advisory committee, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New Georges Affiliated Artist, SDC. B.A. Vassar College.
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LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
Executive Director
George Forbes
Artistic Director of New Play Development
Caridad Svich
Artistic Director of New Musical Development
Michael Heitzman
Operations Manager
Zebulon Brown
Head Treasurer
Maya McCullough
Artistic Director of High School Playwriting Fellowship
Kimille Howard
Senior Director
Nancy Elaine Hurvitz
Senior Director
Jeffrey Shubart
Digital Designer
John Hayek
Press
John Wyszniewski, Everyman Agency
General Manager
Alana Canty-Samuel
General Manager
Mau Le Viness
General Manager
Karla Liriano
Marketing Associate
Rascher Alcasid
Development
Lynn M Stirrup, Stirrup Executive Advisory Services
Programs supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
The Lortel Theatre’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
We gratefully acknowledge our Lucille Lortel Off-Broadway Champions.
PRODUCERS
Brigitte Vosse
BENEFACTORS
Cynthia & Herbert Fields
Ira Gilbert
Michael Hecht
Stephanie Rabinowitz
LEADERS
Anonymous (4)
Priscilla Almodovar & Eric Dinallo
Louis Antonelli
Eileen Begg
Leslie Bhutani
Kathleen Chopin
Rick Swift & Megan Flanigan
Friedman Family Foundation
Magalie Lussier-Valade
PATRONS
Anonymous (2)
Daryl Boren
Ana & Eric Cantor
David & Peri Clark
Cason Crane
Cathy Dault
Katharine English & Paul Wood
Roberta Garza
Kevin Hansen
William S. Hoover, MD
Gregory & Zainab Ahmad Jensen
Donna Karan
Michael Kors & Lance Le Pere
Diana Krall
Ann Miner
Sheila Nevins
Laura & Gerry Rosberg
Amy & David Scharlin
Ann Kottler & Richard Schindler
Michael Stern/The Bigwood Foundation Inc.
Wendy Vanden Heuvel
Christina Weiss Lurie
and many others!
LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Our theatre lives on the island of Manhattan.
Manhattan has always been a gathering and trading place for many Indigenous peoples, where Nations intersected from all four directions since time immemorial. It was a place to gather and sometimes to seek refuge during times of conflict and struggle. The staff and trustees of New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Sinking Ship, and Theater in Quarantine pay respect to all of their ancestors past, present, to their future generations.
We acknowledge that our theatre, and our work, is situated on the island of Manhattan (Menohhannet— On the Island), traditional lands of the Munsee Lenape, the Canarsie, Unkechaug, Matinecock, Shinnecock, Reckgawanc and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
We respect that many Indigenous people continue to live and work on this island and acknowledge their ongoing contributions to this area.
We encourage each of you to honor the Indigenous communities that first inhabited the land on which you’re now standing.
We would like to thank Safe Harbors NYC for contributing to this statement.