The Secret Life of Seaweed
by Julie McKee
HB Playwrights Theatre, NYC
Director: Jean Randich
Set and Projection Design: Sue Rees
Costume Design: Beth Clancy
Lighting Design: Christina Watanabe
Sound Design: Robert Murphy
Commissioned by The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of Science and Technology and the Ensemble Studio Theater. Set in 1942 in New Zealand, a woman botanist and her part-Maori sketch artist are sent in search of Pterocladia Lucida, a simple seaweed to aid the war effort.
Featuring: James Hallett*, Maggie Lacey*, Rebecca Nelson*, and Aishling Pembroke
*Member of AEA
Photo credit: Sue Rees