Urban Stages presents the World Premiere of

DEATH OF A DRIVER
By WILL SNIDER

Starring SARAH BASKIN & PATRICK J. SSENJOVU

Directed by KIM T. SHARP
Assistant Director: VINCENT SCOTT
Scenic Design: FRANK J. OLIVA
Costume Design: GAILL COOPER-HECHT
Lighting Design: JOHN SALUTZ
Sound Design: IAN WEHRLE
Production Stage Manager: MIRIAM HYFLER
Assistant Stage Manager: LINDSAY KIPNIS
Original Music: ABOU LION DIARRA
Press Representative: JOE TRENTACOSTA, JT PUBLIC RELATIONS

Urban Stages
259 West 30th Street (off Eighth Avenue)
www.urbanstages.org or by phone at 1.866.811.4111
Opening Night: March 4th, 2019

To see some of the most superb acting around today you should head on over to Urban Stages. Sarah (Sarah Baskin) and Kennedy (Patrick J. Ssenjovu) have formed a friendship and a unique bond in Will Snider’s DEATH OF A DRIVER, and a couple more perfectly paired would be difficult to find. On a practically bare stage, these two keep you mesmerized in a story of political activism tinged by culture, race, gender, trust, and betrayal. As the two create a partnership to improve the roads in Kenya, the benefits of a white American woman who brings the proposal and the money working with a black African man who lives within the conditions they are trying to change clash with the detriments of opposing perspectives. It’s a battle between thinking outside the box and surviving within the box. Both need each other but are the differences too large to overcome? DEATH OF A DRIVER is so beautifully presented that it is difficult to choose a side.

- Laurie Lawson -