JACKSON HEIGHTS 3AM

a new play inspired by late nights in the most diverse neighborhood in the world

Conceived and Directed by Ari Laura Kreith
Written by Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, Ed Cardona Jr., Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien and Joy Tomasko

At PS 69 in Jackson Heights Jan 13-Jan 22

At Queens Theatre in Flushing Meadows Park Jan 27-Feb 5

A Bangladeshi cab driver working the midnight shift yearns for an Ecuadorian woman who rises at dawn to bake bread, but does not speak her language. A closeted policeman from Long Island comes to Jackson Heights for a date.  At Club Atlantis, a drag pageant contestant has a run-in with one of her fans, while farther down Roosevelt Avenue, a Russian immigrant discovers that redemption arrives in the strangest ways.  A rookie cop tries his best to do right by everyone, a beloved dog mysteriously disappears, and in Elmhurst Hospital a heartbroken ER doctor helps her patients fulfill their deepest dreams.  Car dispatchers, sex workers, drag queens, E.R. doctors, gamblers, and insomniacs collide in the colorful world of Jackson Heights after hours.

Seven playwrights explored the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world from 10pm-4am — its brightest lights and loneliest corners — in dance clubs, all-night bakeries, sex shops, laundromats, side streets, and alleyways. They ate arepas prepared by the “sainted arepa lady” and, two blocks away, saw the homeless fed by the local hero a.k.a. “Angel of Queens” under the elevated trains. They interviewed numbers-players, sex trafficking experts, bartenders, cops, and cross-dressers.  They were invited to dance, to gamble, and to watch an undercover police operation.  And they were invited to let their imaginations run dark, funny, sexy, and very very late.

WARNING: This one's not for all ages. 

Starring Roberto Araujo, Varin Ayala*, Farah Bala*, Cynthia Bastidas, Rajesh Bose*, J. Stephen Brantley, Arlene Chico-Lugo*, Ross DeGraw*, Nick Fehlinger, Marcelino Feliciano, Andrew Guilarte*, Kevin Hoffman, John P. Keller*, Alex Kip*, Ephraim Lopez*, Neal Mayer*, Nina Mehta*, Sergey Nagorny, Flor De Liz Perez*, Indika Senanayake* and Josie Whittlesey* 

Stage Manager: Sean McCain*

Costume Design: Georgie Landy

Projection Design: Andrew Lazarow

Sound Design: Ben Rodman

Lighting Design: Kimberly Dowd

Scenic Design:  Michael Wilson Morgan

*Performing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. AEA approved Showcase.

In JACKSON HEIGHTS at PS 69, 77-02 37th Ave (E, F, M, R or 7 to Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights)
TICKETS/INFO at www.theatre167.org  or 800.838.3006
Friday Jan 13 at 8pm

Saturday Jan 14 at 2pm and 8pm

Sunday Jan 15 at 7pm
Friday Jan 20 at 8pm

Saturday Jan 21 at 2pm and 8pm

Sunday Jan 22 at 7pm  

$18/$16

At QUEENS THEATRE, 14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows Corona Park Jan 27-Feb 5
TICKETS/INFO: 718.760.0064 or www.queenstheatre.org

$18