trump rally

Adapted for the stage by Sean Pollock

Based on the 2016 documentary of the same name by Sean Dunne. A docutheatre piece that is a glimpse inside the divisive and complex world of fanatical Trump supporters of varying identities (and protestors) using actual found text from a rally in Vegas in January 2016.

Cast: Karissa J. Murrell Myers

Director: Elizabeth Swanson

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Sean Pollock is a Brooklyn-based multi disciplinary theatre artist, writer, director, creator, designer, fine/collage artist, performance artist and photographer from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Ithaca College with a BA in Theatre Studies and Writing, as well as an alumni of the National Theatre Institute Theatremarkers Program at the Eugene O Neil Theatre (NTI), and Director's Lab North. He currently serves at the Literary Associate for The Dirty Blondes Theatre Company. www.seanpollock.net | instagram: @seanzyart

Elizabeth Swanson is a Chicago-based theater director and dramaturge. Recent directing credits include Harvey (Three Brothers Theatre), Where All the White Sneakers At? (Second City), and Lungs (Granary Theatre, Cork, Ireland). Assistant directing credits include Fun Home (Victory Gardens Theater), Love’s Labor’s Lost (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and Vardo for the Dublin Theatre Festival (Anu Productions). Elizabeth has also directed for Stage 773’s Artists Lab and directed festival shows and readings with Chicago Dramatists, Pride Films & Plays, About Face Theater, and Otherworld Theatre, among others. Elizabeth has an M.F.A. in theatre directing from the Lir National Academy of Dramatic Arts at Trinity College, Dublin.