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A TALE OF TWO DREAMERS


SANCTUARY CITY

October 21 – November 27, 2022

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 * 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

Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok brings us the powerful story of two young
DREAMers who fight to establish a place for themselves in America, the only
country they know as home. Poignant, timely, and highly theatrical, Sanctuary
City illuminates the triumphs and challenges these 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 Steven and Susan Bralove and
Kristen Donoghue and Jonathan Hacker.


PROGRAM

Download the Sanctuary City Program PDF


CAST

HERNÁN ANGULO

B

MARÍA VICTORIA MARTÍNEZ

G

KIM FISCHER

Henry

JOHNNY ANTHONY

u/s B/Henry

BEKAH ZORNOSA

u/s G





HERNÁN ANGULO

B



Hernán Angulo (B) is thrilled to be making his Arena Stage and East Coast debut!
His most recent theater credits include Sanctuary City (Berkeley Repertory
Theatre) and Cymbeline (American Conservatory Theater). Hernán is a recent
graduate from American Conservatory Theater’s MFA program. Instagram: @hernanc.a
hernanangulo.com



MARÍA VICTORIA MARTÍNEZ

G



María Victoria Martínez (G) is an actor, theater maker, and audiobook narrator
based in San Juan, Puerto Rico and New York City. Her work includes the West
Coast premiere of Sanctuary City (Berkeley Repertory Theater), James and the
Giant Peach (American Repertory Theater), Christmas at the Ivanovs’ (Moscow Art
Theater, Russia), After Burn (FRINGE Festival), In the Time of the Butterflies
(Spanish Theatre Repertory / Repertorio Español), and Agua, Vida y Tierra (What
Will The Neighbors Say?). Her film credits include the TV romcom Harmony in
Paradise,and the indie film Here Comes the Blackout, alongside Alice Kremelberg.
María loves wearing many hats in the theater and has also worked as Assistant
Director in the Soho Repertory Theatre production Notes on Killing Seven
Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members. She obtained her BA
at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus, and her master’s degree
from the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at
Harvard University, where she spent a semester training at the Moscow Art
Theater in Russia. Born and raised in Santurce, Puerto Rico, María infuses her
work with her love and passion for the Island. She is beyond excited to be
making her DC debut. she/her/ella Instagram: @mashainthetropics



KIM FISCHER

Henry



Kim Fischer (Henry) is an actor from Oakland, California, based in Brooklyn, NY.
His NY theatre credits include: Make Believe (Second Stage, dir. Michael
Greif), Then She Fell (Third Rail Projects), and Fuerza Bruta (Daryl Roth
Theatre). Regional theater: Sanctuary City (Berkeley Rep), Frankenstein (Dallas
Theater Center), Chill (Merrimack Rep), Macbeth (Denver Center), How We Got
On (Cleveland Playhouse). TV: WeCrashed (Apple), The Good
Fight (Paramount), Mrs. Fletcher (HBO), Jessica Jones (Netflix), The Get Down
(Netflix), Royal Pains (USA). Film includes Misprint, The Club, and I Can I Will
I Did. He is an alumnus of the Actors Theatre of Louisville Acting Apprentice
program and the ABC Diversity Showcase. BFA: NYU he/him Instagram: @mrkimfischer



JOHNNY ANTHONY

u/s B/Henry



Johnny Anthony (u/s B/Henry) is so excited to be making his Arena Stage debut!
Regional theater credits include Kyle in Tom, Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront,
and Aaron Kreifels in The Laramie Project. Johnny recently graduated from Pace
University, as well as completed the Uta Hagen Institute’s Core Summer Intensive
at the prestigious HB Studio in NYC. Johnny can also be seen in West Side
Story (dir. Steven Spielberg) and the upcoming Apple TV+ series The Crowded
Room. Instagram: @thejohnnyanthony www.johnnyanthony.com



BEKAH ZORNOSA

u/s G



Bekah Zornosa (u/s G) is so excited to be working at Arena Stage. Recent credits
include: There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), “We declare
you a terrorist…” (Round House Theatre), The Eulogy (Rorschach
Theatre), ALIEN/NATION (Williamstown Theatre Festival/The Forest of
Arden), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (North Shore Music
Theatre), Pipeline (Everyman Theatre). Bekah is currently a senior at American
University studying Musical Theatre, and Public Relations and Strategic
Communications. Instagram: @bekahzornosa bekahzornosa.com




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





MARTYNA MAJOK

Playwright



Martyna Majok (Playwright) was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and
Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of
Living, which debuted this fall on Broadway. Other plays include Sanctuary City,
Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and
international stages. Awards include the Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin
Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting; the Hull-Warriner Award; the
Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play; the Greenfield Prize, as the
first female recipient in drama; the Champions of Change Award from the NYC
Mayor’s Office; the Francesca Primus Prize; two Jane Chambers Playwriting
Awards; the Lanford Wilson Prize; the Lilly Award’s Stacey Mindich Prize; Helen
Merrill Emerging Playwright Award; Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding
Original New Play from the Helen Hayes Awards; Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting
Award; ANPF Women’s Invitational Prize; David Calicchio Prize; Global Age
Project Prize; NYTW 2050 Fellowship; NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting;
and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale
School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools.
She was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at
the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton
University. Martyna is currently writing a musical adaptation of The Great
Gatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, and developing TV and
film for HBO, Plan B, and Pastel. she/her



DAVID MENDIZÁBAL

Original Director



David Mendizábal (Original Director), they/he, is a director, designer, one of
the Producing Artistic Leaders of the OBIE Award-winning The Movement Theatre
Company, and Associate Artistic Director of The Sol Project. New York credits
include: Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability
Board Members (Soho Rep/Sol Project), Then They Forgot About the Rest(INTAR),
and Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic). Regional credits
include: Mushroom (People's Light), Sanctuary City(Berkeley Rep), This Bitter
Earth (TheaterWorks Hartford), Don’t Eat the Mangos (Magic Theatre), and On The
Grounds of Belonging (Long Wharf). David is a 2021 Princess Grace Award
Honoraria Recipient in Theater. They are an alumnus of Soho Rep Project Number
One, Ars Nova Vision Residency, Drama League Directors Project, artEquity, and
TCG Leadership U. Instagram: @its_daveed | www.davidmendizabal.com



CARA HINH

Associate Director/Transfer Director



Cara Hinh (Associate Director/Transfer Director) is an Indiana-born queer, fat,
mixed Viet theatre maker currently based in Brooklyn. They rejoice in work that
speaks to the complicated and messy intersectionalities of holding a
multiplicity of cultures and identities. Prior, Cara has been a Drama League
Hangar Fellow, part of the Roundabout Directors Group, a Directing Apprentice at
Actors Theatre of Louisville, SDC Observer on Hadestown, and a Learning Fellow
at Baltimore Center Stage. she/they carahinh.com



DAVID ISRAEL REYNOSO

Set and Costume Designer



David Israel Reynoso (Set and Costume Designer) is an internationally renowned
scenic, costume, and exhibit designer, as well as the Obie Award-winning costume
designer of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More (Boston, New York, and Shanghai). His
celebrated theatrical designs have been featured at The Finnish National Ballet,
La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, Portland
Center Stage, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory
Theatre, among many others. He is the founder of OPTIKA MODERNA and the creator
of Portaleza (2020), Las Quinceañeras (2019), and Waking La Llorona (2017).
Reynoso’s scope of work extends beyond theatre/film to include designs for
globally recognized theme parks as well as companies such as Meow Wolf and the
San Diego Museum of Us. Reynoso is the recipient of the Creative Catalyst Grant
of the San Diego Foundation, an Elliot Norton Award, and multiple Craig Noel,
IRNE, and BroadwayWorld award nominations. More at davidreynoso.com.



CHA SEE

Lighting Designer



Cha See (Lighting Designer)’s Arena Stage credit includes the world premiere
of Change Agent. D.C. credits include the world premiere of What to Send Up When
It Goes Down (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater). Her
New York credits include You Will Get Sick (Roundabout Theatre), One in Two (The
New Group), What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, The Movement Theatre Company), Soft
(MCC), Exception to the Rule (Roundabout Underground), The Fever (Audible
Theater). Regional credits include the world premiere of On the Grounds of
Belonging (Long Wharf Theatre) and the world premiere of America v 2.1: The Sad
Demise & Eventual Extinction of the American Negro (Barrington Stage
Company), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), and Sanctuary City (Berkeley
Rep). Upcoming: Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons), (pray) (Ars Nova), As You Like
It (La Jolla Playhouse), and You Do You (Audible Theater). Training: MFA, NYU
Tisch. Instagram: @seethruuu www.seelightingdesign.com 



FAN ZHANG

Sound Designer



Fan Zhang (Sound Designer) is a sound designer and composer based in New York.
Her recent design and original music credits include At the Wedding (Lincoln
Center Theater), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage), A Kid Like Rishi (Origin
Theatre), New Golden Age (59E59), Paris (Atlantic Theater), Our Dear Dead Drug
Lord (Second Stage & WP), Pumpgirl (Irish Rep), Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi &
ART), Molly Sweeney (Theatre Row), Round Table (59E59), Behind the
Sheet (Ensemble Studio), The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Transport
Group), Scissoring (INTAR), Three Girls Never Learnt the Way Home (Cherry
Lane), Tania in the Getaway Van (The Flea). Selected regional: The Great
Leap (Portland Center Stage), White Noise and Pipeline (Studio Theatre,
D.C.), Seven Guitars (Yale Rep), Redeem (Cincinnati
Ballet), The Revolutionists (Pittsburgh City Theatre), Red Maple (Capital Rep).
Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. fanzhangsound.com



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

Casting Director



Erica Jensen, C.S.A., Calleri Jensen Davis (Casting Director) is one third of
the Artios Award-winning Calleri Jensen Davis (with James Calleri and Paul
Davis). Erica’s theatre casting credits include shows for Actors Theatre of
Louisville, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick Theater, City Theater, McCarter
Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Hudson
Valley Shakespeare Festival, and The Flea Theater. Broadway credits
include Thoughts of a Colored Man, For Colored Girls… (2022), Fool for
Love, Hughie, A Raisin in the Sun, Of Mice and Men, and Hedwig and the Angry
Inch. TV credits include Queens, Love Life, Dickinson, Lipstick Jungle, and The
Path.



JOSEPH PINZON

Local Casting Director



Joseph Pinzon (Local Casting) is the founder and creative producer of the
contemporary circus company Short Round Productions and its award-winning
show Filament. With over 25 years of performing experience, he has worked
internationally with renowned companies such as Cirque Éloize, Compagnia Finzi
Pasca, Cirque du Soleil, and The 7 Fingers. He holds an MS in Arts Leadership
from USC, a BA in Psychology from UCLA, and graduated from the National Circus
School in Montreal with a specialization in aerial techniques. He was the
casting and resident director for Chamäleon Productions (Berlin) and
Constellation Immersive (CAA’s experiential affiliate). He is also a member of
the Creative & Independent Producer Alliance and a founding board member of the
American Circus Alliance. You can see him causing chaos on season 6 of Nailed
It! on Netflix, where (spoiler alert) he is a part of the series’ first
three-way tie.



ELISA GUTHERTZ

Stage Manager



Elisa Guthertz (Stage Manager) most recently stage managed Sanctuary City at
Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She stage managed Toni Stone at Arena Stage and
American Conservatory Theater. Some of her other A.C.T. credits
include Rhinoceros, Seascape, Sweat, and Hamlet. She has also worked on many
shows for Berkeley Repertory Theatre including the ripple, the wave that carried
me home, The Normal Heart, Cloud Tectonics, and Suddenly Last Summer. Other
credits: A Thousand Splendid Suns at A.C.T., The Old Globe, and Theatre
Calgary; Big Love at Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, and Brooklyn Academy
of Music; The Vagina Monologues with Eve Ensler at Alcazar Theater; and The Good
Body with Eve Ensler at the Booth Theatre on Broadway. 



BECKY REED

Assistant Stage Manager



Becky Reed (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be joining the company
of Sanctuary City, her first show at Arena Stage. DC-area credits
include P.Nokio (Imagination Stage); P.Y.G., The Effect, and No Sisters (Studio
Theatre); Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Signature Theatre); The Cerulean Time
Capsule (Kennedy Center TYA); Copenhagen, Everything is Illuminated,
and Becoming Dr. Ruth (Theater J); Marjorie Prime and I and You (Olney Theatre
Center); and many others; as well as Assistant Stage Management roles with
various DC-area theaters. Tour credits include Elephant & Piggie’s We Are in a
Play and Me… Jane with the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences. Regional
credits include The Resident Ensemble Players, Baltimore Center Stage, and
Playhouse on the Square. Becky is a graduate of Auburn University.



BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE



Berkeley Repertory Theatre has grown from a storefront stage to an international
leader in innovative theatre. Known for its ambition, relevance, and excellence,
as well as its adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a welcoming home
for emerging and established artists since 1968. Over 5.5 million people have
enjoyed nearly 500 shows at Berkeley Rep, which have gone on to win six Tony
Awards, seven Obie Awards, nine Drama Desk Awards, one Grammy Award, one
Pulitzer Prize, and many other honors. Berkeley Rep received the Tony Award for
Outstanding Regional Theatre in 1997. To formalize, enhance, and expand the
processes by which Berkeley Rep makes theatre, The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s
Center for the Creation and Development of New Work was launched in 2012. The
Berkeley Rep School of Theatre engages and educates some 20,000 people a year
and helps build the audiences of tomorrow with its nationally recognized teen
programs. Berkeley Rep’s bustling facilities—which also include the 400-seat
Peet’s Theatre, the 600-seat Roda Theatre, and a spacious campus in West
Berkeley—are helping revitalize a renowned city.




PHOTOS

(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.
(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.
Hernán Angulo (B) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary
City", directed by David Mendizábal.
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(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.
(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.
Hernán Angulo (B) in the West Coast premiere of Martyna Majok’s "Sanctuary
City", directed by David Mendizábal.





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