Fun Home

Content Warning: Death, Death by Suicide, Discussion of Suicide, Sexual content, Pedophilia, Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Abusive Relationships, Abusive Parental Relationships, Derogatory Language 

Welcome to the Fun Home, and be sure to wipe your shoes at the door.

A five-time Tony-Award winning musical based on the best-selling graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel, Fun Home follows Alison as she revisits her past in a search for answers about her brilliant and troubled closeted gay father, Bruce Bechdel, in his life of mystery.

At 43, cartoonist Alison Bechdel is finally ready to process her father's suicide. Equipped with her pen & paper, she draws through her young life in a series of vignettes: through charged encounters with her father as a young girl, through questions and revelations about her own sexuality as a young adult, and eventually--through the news of her father's suicide close on the heels of her own lesbian coming-out... Alison realizes that she and her father were more alike than she had thought. But why is it that their stories had turned out so differently?

Fun Home invites us to explore alongside Alison how our understandings of the world differ from that of our parents. And in times of change, both within and without ourselves--what control do we have over how our stories go?

Music by Jeanine Tesori

Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron

Based on the Graphic Novel by Alison Bechdel

CAST AT THIS PERFORMANCE:

LIBBY RONON as ALISON

CAMELIA ELIAS SIERRA as MEDIUM ALISON/SUSAN DEY

WINNIE YUAN as SMALL ALISON

MICKEY WIRTZ as BRUCE BECHDEL

BARRY-SUZANNE COLLINS as HELEN BECHDEL

AIDAN DONOHUE as CHRISTIAN BECHDEL

AJ KING as JOHN BECHDEL

JUDAH WIDZER as ROY/MARK/PETE/BOBBY JEREMY

KELSEY LEVIE as JOAN/SUSAN DEY/DANCE CAPTAIN

*Please note that the cast is subject to change

BAND:

Piano played by TOM POLJEVKA | Guitar played by MILES TANNER | Percussion played by DARREN DU | Bass played by CROSBY DOYAMA | Reed 1 played by RAY HELLER | Reed 2 played by JONATHAN HAGEN | Violin played by OLIVIA KLATTE | Celle played by NICOLE FENG

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Produced by HANNAH STOBER in association with TISCH NEW THEATRE | Artistic Director JULIA FREITAS-GORDON | Production Managers ESME CUAUTLE and JERRY JIA | DEIA Chair SAM CHARNEY

Directed by JULIA FREITAS-GORDON | Assistant Director IFE DAVIS

Choreographed by LIAM REDFORD

Music Directed by AUGUST FARAJIAN | Assistant Music Directors JULIA CRAFTON, DANIEL LAI and KATHERINE HARB | Band Manager LAURA SCHIVELEY

Production Stage Manager SOPHIA ZHAO | Assistant Stage Managers GREY BLAKE and ANTHONY LI

Head Scenic Designer KAT KAHLER | Associate Scenic Designers ELLA FREEMAN and AKANKSHA SOMANI | Props Designers CECE COLLIER and BETHANY LEBERTHON | Projection Designer SAM CHARNEY | Lighting Designer JERRY JIA | Assistant Lighting Designer and Lightboard Operator JORDAN HINES | Sound Designer TINA QIU | Assistant Sound Designer and Sound Engineer ALYSSA YANG | Head Costume Designer MAXWELL GUTIERREZ | Associate Costume Designer EMALEA ROOKE | Assistant Costume Designer LIZ ROSENBAUM | Stitcher ANGIE DAVIS | Wardrobe Crew EMALEA ROOKE, LIZ ROSENBAUM, and ANGIE DAVIS | Dramaturg BRYCE GASTELUM and VIET LINH TO | Intimacy Coordinator RY PATTEN | Producing Assistants SOPHIA ASHBAHIAN and CHRISTOPHER MARTINEZ | Director of Development SIGNY ACKERMANN | Development Assistants OSHMI GHOSH and NGHI NGUYEN | Director of Marketing ASPEN NARAIN | Marketing Assistant MADI KAPLAN | Social Media Manager JOSEPHINE WANG | Photographers MARIANA ARBOLEDA, FRANCESCA DIMICELI, SHARON JIANG, and KAITLYN WIGMORE | Videographers SUPRIYA RAJ and KAITLYN WIGMORE | Graphic Designers JINGWEI MU and DANIEL YEE| Community Organizers JOSEPHINE DEIESU and VALENTINA RUBIO | Production Assistants ETHAN MORE, GUY TANO, VIET LINH TO and ADRIAN ZHOU

Originally Produced on Broadway by

Fox Theatricals | Barbara Whitman |

Carole Shorenstein Hays

Tom Casserly | Paula Marie Black | Latitude Link | Terry Schnuck/Jane Lane | The Forstalls

Nathan Vernon | Mint Theatricals | Elizabeth Armstrong | Jam Theatricals | Delman Whitney

and Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson

The world premiere production of FUN HOME was produced by The Public Theater

Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director | Patrick Willingham, Executive Director

In New York City on October 22nd, 2013

FUN HOME was developed, in part, at the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak and the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre

Lab at the Sundance Resort.

FUN HOME is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com

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