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A TALE OF TWO DREAMers

Sanctuary City

  • Credits

    In association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre
    by Martyna Majok
    Original Direction by David Mendizábal
    Associate Direction/Transfer Direction by Cara Hinh

  • Location

    Kreeger Theater

  • Run Time

    1 hour 45 minutes, no intermission

"ONE-OF-A-KIND LOVE STORY YOU NEED TO WATCH!"

– San Francisco Chronicle

What are you willing to do for your best friend? Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok brings us the powerful story of two young DREAMers who fight to stay in America, the only country they know as home. Poignant, timely, and highly theatrical, Sanctuary City illuminates the triumphs and challenges lifelong friends face, and how much they are willing to risk for each other when they have everything to lose.

Sanctuary City is sponsored by Decker Anstrom and Sherry Hiemstra and Catherine and Chris Guttman-McCabe with additional support by Susan and Steven Bralove and Kristen Donoghue and Jonathan Hacker.

Cast

HERNÁN ANGULO

B

MARÍA VICTORIA MARTÍNEZ

G

KIM FISCHER

Henry

JOHNNY ANTHONY

u/s B/Henry

BEKAH ZORNOSA

u/s G

Creative

MARTYNA MAJOK

Playwright

DAVID MENDIZÁBAL

Original Director

CARA HINH

Associate Director/Transfer Director

DAVID ISRAEL REYNOSO

Set and Costume Designer

CHA SEE

Lighting Designer

FAN ZHANG

Sound Designer

ERICA JENSEN, C.S.A.; CALLERI JENSEN DAVIS

Casting Director

JOSEPH PINZON

Local Casting Director

ELISA GUTHERTZ

Stage Manager

BECKY REED

Assistant Stage Manager

BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE

Photos

Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B), María Victoria Martínez (G) and Kim Fischer (Henry) in "Sanctuary City" running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B), María Victoria Martínez (G) and Kim Fischer (Henry) in "Sanctuary City" running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal. Running October 21 through November 27 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Margot Schulman.
(l to r) María Victoria Martínez (G) and Hernán Angulo (B) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal.
(l to r) María Victoria Martínez (G) and Hernán Angulo (B) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal.
María Victoria Martínez (G) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal.
Kim Fischer (Henry) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal.
(l to r) Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal.
(l to r) Hernán Angulo (B) and María Victoria Martínez (G) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal.
Hernán Angulo (B) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary City", directed by David Mendizábal.

Multimedia

Sanctuary City in the News

DC Theater Arts

Playwright Martyna Majok on finding hope in impossible situations

WTOP

Arena Stage presents immigration play ‘Sanctuary City’ about teen DREAMers

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“...powerful and important perspective on immigration that EVERYONE SHOULD SEE”

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Washington Post

‘Sanctuary City’ puts human faces to strife of undocumented immigrants

DC Theater Arts

“Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City pulls no punches.”

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