the cell
presents the World Premiere of

HEY JUDE

Written by Nancy Manocherian
Directed by Kira Simring
Composer: Michael Dellaira
Set Designer: Peiyi Wong
Lighting Designer: Gertjan Houben
Costume Design; Rebecca Freund
Sound Design: M. Florian Staab
Stage Manager: Adrian Pena

Featuring: Larry Cahn, Catherine Dupont, Deborah Offner, Adam Weppler

Press Representative: Ron Lasko, Spin Cycle NYC

Urban Stages
259 West 30th Street
May 29 - June 21, 2015
www.thecelltheatre.org; 800.838.3006


It is Christmas time and this home is filled with anxieties. Mom, an aging hippy, is haunted by the monkey in her head that incessantly reminds her of her poor life decisions. She uses her faith in Jesus to support her denial in the life she has built. She married an atheist, Jewish, football player who ends up demented; they adopted a son from an orphanage where the babies have been neglected. She was certain she could help them both and create a happy home environment.

Her husband is retired and lives in his brain-injured bubble. Her son, is searching for his past, feeling incomplete. He finds his mother’s diary and discovers his past was all fabricated, Beatles style. “We believed our love could save him”, she says. “When all is lost, there is Jude,” the patron saint of lost causes. Things finally come to a head, and she realizes that the life she wished for is a fading fantasy.

HEY JUDE is a story about a family coming to terms with the dysfunctional, faulty thinking that defines them.

- Gloria Talamas -