Preview Performance - One Jewish Boy

Jesse, a nice Jewish boy from North London, falls hopelessly in love with Alex, a mixed-race woman from South London. How they struggle to stay in love as they are confronted with the world’s unpredictable cruelty is the biting, funny, bittersweet story of One Jewish Boy.

set design by Justin Huen

costume design by Dianne Graebner

light and sound design by Matt Richter

production stage manager Bianca Rickheim

Stephen Laughton is an award-winning, critically acclaimed writer with a rising international profile. He has work in various stages of development across film and theatre in NYC, LA, London, Cape Town, and Sydney. He has worked with major theatres and broadcasters including the Royal Court, MTC, Headlong, BBC, TF1 and Film4. He is an Associate Artist in the Astrophysics team at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Stephen has two major plays coming up in 2025: Giants, which explores the controversy that unfolded on the set of James Dean’s last film, is set to open at the Sydney Opera House; and Velocity – which examines mental health in the LGBTQ+ community through the lens of the birth of the universe, human reaction times, and dark matter – is set to open at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

For screen, his sci-fi short Hiraeth won 8 of the 20 awards it was nominated for on the international festival circuit. (Including Best Screenplay). Horror feature – We Live Here is currently being packaged in the US; Sci-fi feature – The Array, in South Africa. His comedy-drama, The Call, begins principal photography in 20

Location: Atwater Village Theatre

Parking:
FREE in the Atwater Crossing (AXT) lot one block south of the theater.

Ticket Prices:
- Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays: $38
- Thursdays: $20
- Mondays and Previews: Pay-What-You-Want

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