HART ISLAND
Book & Lyrics by Michelle Elliott
Music & Lyrics by Danny Haengil Larsen
Directed by Marcela Lorca
Performances by Shereen Pimentel, Jason Veasey, Jonathan Christopher, Shadia Fairuz, Ruben Flores, Aline Mayagoitia, Tyrone Robinson, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Ryan Gregory Thurman, Chris Ranney, Caitlin Warbelow, and Agustin Uriburu.
7pm, Monday, June 30, 2025
Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater
at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space
511 W 52nd Street, NY, NY 10019
Hart Island in the East River has served as NYC’s public burial grounds for 150+ years and is the final resting place for 1 million unclaimed and indigent New Yorkers, as well as thousands of still born infants. Set in 1985, Hart Islandfollows the lives of two people who have each lost a child and are unable to move beyond their grief. Charles, an incarcerated Black man at Riker’s Island who is selected to join the Hart Island burial crew, will not allow himself to grieve the death of his young son. Marielena, a recent Dominican immigrant whose stillborn son is buried on Hart Island, feels she cannot properly mourn her child because visitors were not allowed to go to the gravesites at that time.
Hart Island was one of five musicals supported during the inaugural year of the 121 Project, a tailored program dedicated to helping writers take their work to the next step.