HURRICANE
Workshop production at Columbia MFA, June 2021.
playwright & director - Jacob Sexton
featuring Tre Calhoun, Chandler Matkins, McLean Peterson, Kevin Rodriguez, Spencer Whale, Amanda Whiteley, and Jarrod Zayas.
co-set design - Emmie Finckel and Miguel Urbino
costumes design - Azalea Fairley
lighting design - Megan Lang
sound design - Evdoxia Ragkou
assistant sound design - Jacob K Robinson
props design - Cassy Spaduzzi
live cinema - Danielle Douge and Wes Goodrich
projection coordinator - Andrew Freeburg
production stage manager - Samm Lynch
dramaturg - Liv Rigdon
co-producers - Joanna Pisano and Connor Scully
Private reading at Columbia MFA, 2020.
playwright & director - Jacob Sexton
featuring Lauren Annuziata, Eric Berryman, Karl Hawkins, David Huynh, David Jackson, Drigan Lee, and Ismenia Mendes.
Private reading, 2016.
playwright & director - Jacob Sexton
featuring Seth Clayton, Anna Crivelli, Milo Cramer, David Jackson, Danielle Slavick, Nick Vannoy, and Jefferson White
Set in 2012, HURRICANE follows the staff of a West Village restaurant that refuses to close despite the oncoming Superstorm Sandy. When they are left stranded in a blacked-out lower Manhattan with more wine than they could possibly consume, they are left with no choice but to party.. As their sexually diverse perspectives collide, the play questions how we define Relationships, what it means to “get together,” and whether romance and sex are, in fact, synonymous.
HURRICANE is an asexual identity play - or rather, it's a play about intimacy and contemporary dating from an asexual perspective.
