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53% OF
BY
STEPH DEL ROSSO
DIRECTED BY
TIFFANY NICHOLE GREENE
The president is coming to town, and the good ladies of Bethlehem, PA are beside themselves planning to give him a hero’s welcome; later, their husbands drink and posture during his swearing in. And in Brooklyn, a group of 20-something white women gather to plan . . . a revolution? Or is it a ritual to absolve their own guilt? 53% Of shines a spotlight on the status quo and shakes up our perceived notions of who calls themselves good and who pleads ignorance.
“In 2016, 53% of white women voted for our 45th president, a statistic that became an obsession for me. This play is my attempt to find a frank, dark, and funny way to talk about white women -- the ones who voted for him and the ones who didn't.”
- Steph Del Rosso
Generous support for New Play Development is provided by WarnerMedia. Second Stage’s 2021-22 Season is supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Anna Crivelli
Anna Crivelli (Denise/Derek/Dana) is a San Francisco Bay Area native currently residing in Brooklyn. Off-Broadway: Doll’s House Part 3 (Exponential Festival), Drink with Death (La Mama). Regional: How to Defend Yourself (Victory Gardens, 43rd Humana Festival), Private Lives (Dorset Theatre Festival), Once Five Years Pass, Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Appropriate (Westport Country Playhouse). Television: “Evil” (CBS). MFA: Yale School of Drama. BA: Fordham University Lincoln Center.
Eden Malyn
Eden Malyn (PJ/RJ). This is Eden’s Second Stage debut! New York theatre: Stuffed (The Westside Theater). Regional: Bad Jews (ETC Santa Barbara/The English Theatre Frankfurt), Sonya and Vanya and Masha and Spike (Portland Center Stage), Sex and Other Disturbances (Portland Stage). TV: ”Halston,” ”The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” ”Orange is the New Black,” ”American Horror Story,” “Living with Yourself,” “House of Lies,” ”The Good Cop,” ”NCIS,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Castle,” and “Criminal Minds.” Film: The Climb (Cannes, Sundance).
Marianna McClellan
Marianna McClellan (Leslie/Larry/Lucy). World premiere tour of Dream Hou$e (Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf, Baltimore Center Stage). NYC Theatre: Nina in the NYC premiere of Stupid F*cking Bird (Pearl Theater), Cherry Smoke, Apartment 3A (Theatre Row), #liberated (Ars Nova). Regional Theatre: Humana Festival, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Select TV/ Film: “High Maintenance” (HBO), “The Good Fight” (CBS), “The Blacklist” (NBC), Two Plains and a Fancy (BAMcinemaFest). Marianna voices Eve in the scripted sci-fi podcast “Cryptids.”
Grace Rex
Grace Rex (Sue/Stan/Sasha). She/Her. Theatre Credits: Off-Broadway: Nantucket Sleighride (Lincoln Center). Regional: Life and Limb (Steppenwolf), Ed, Downloaded (Denver Center), Pumpgirl (A Red Orchid) Selected Film/TV: “Severance” (AppleTV), “Everything’s Trash” (ABC Freeform), “Manifest” (NBC), “Alternatino with Arturo Castro” (Comedy Central), “The Good Wife” (CBS), “Master of None” (Netflix), “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO), “Blindspot” (NBC), “Madam Secretary” (CBS), “Dispatches from Elsewhere” (AMC), Contagion, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. BA in Musical Theatre, Ball State University.
Cathryn Wake
Cathryn Wake (Vicky/Victor/Vivian). Broadway: …The Great Comet. Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks, The Other Josh Cohen, The Hello Girls. Select regional: The Glass Menagerie (Pittsburgh Public), Conscience (George Street Playhouse), The Suffragist (GBPAC), Well-Intentioned White People (Barrington Stage), Ebenezer Scrooge’s…Christmas Show (The Old Globe), The Second Girl (CATF), Loch Ness (The Rev), The Seedbed (New Jersey Rep). TV: “Madame Secretary,” “Glee,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (featured vocalist), “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “The 71st Annual Tony Awards.” BFA Pace University, LAMDA alum. @CathrynWake
Ayana Workman
Ayana Workman (KJ). Off-Broadway: Romeo & Juliet, The Winter's Tale (Public Theater), Macbeth (Red Bull), Macbeth (Hunter Theatre Project), The Price of Thomas Scott (Mint Theater), Dos Worlds (Trinity Church). Regional: Everybody, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare Theater Company), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Cincinnati Playhouse in The Park). International: Julius Caesar (The Globe Theatre). TV: “Person of Interest,” “Jessica Jones,” “Bammas.” Film: Upcoming: Rustin.
STEPH DEL ROSSO – PLAYWRIGHT
Steph Del Rosso writes plays, fiction, film, and television. She is a winner of the Steinberg Playwright Award and the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Award. Steph is the former Shank Playwriting Fellow at The Public Theater, has been commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse, Studio Theatre, and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and was featured on The Kilroy’s List. Her work has been produced or developed at The Kennedy Center, Alliance Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, JACK, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and many others. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a former Theater Master’s Visionary Playwright, and an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group, and The Lark’s Playground. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Services, Inc. She currently teaches Playwriting at NYU and lives in Brooklyn. MFA: UC-San Diego.
TIFFANY NICHOLE GREENE – DIRECTOR
Tiffany Nichole Greene is the resident director of HAMILTON (Philip Tour). Recent credits include the world premiere of HIGH SCHOOL PLAY: A NOSTALGIA FEST (Alley); NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN (ATC); the world premiere of SHOEBOX PICNIC: ROUTE ONE (AST); OHIO STATE MURDERS (Goodman); SOMETHING GRIM(M) (DTC). Digital credits include the world premieres of Lydia Diamond’s WHITERLY NEGOTIATIONS and Lynn Nottage’s WHAT ARE THE THINGS I NEED TO REMEMBER? (Octopus Theatricals; NYT Critic’s Pick); AS IS: CONVERSATIONS WITH BIG BLACK WOMEN IN CONFINED SPACE (MTC); Alice Childress’ WINE IN THE WILDERNESS (PCS); and BATTLE CRY by Bianca Sams (CPHT). www.tiffanynicholegreene.com.