Benefiting Partner Organization:
The Actors Fund is a national
human services organization that
fosters stability and resiliency, and
provides a safety net for performing
arts and entertainment professionals
over their lifespan.
THE HOMBRES
By Tony Meneses
Directed by Annie Tippe
Live Event: One Act Play with
Q&A on Wed, Aug 19 at 7:00pm
Originally scheduled to have its
run at Two River Theater in April
of 2020, the cast of The Hombres
will reunite for a reading of
their much-anticipated world premiere
production, which has been
postponed to a future season due
to COVID-19. This new play by
Tony Meneses is a fresh and nuanced
look at the complexity and
intimacy of male friendship. Set in
New Jersey (“somewhere off the
NJ Transit line”), the play follows
Julián, a Latino yoga teacher, as
he clashes with the Latino construction
workers outside his studio—particularly
the older head of
the crew, Héctor, who seeks from
Julián something he never expected.
Two River co-commissioned
and developed The Hombres with
the NJPAC Stage Exchange, a program
of the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center and New Jersey
Theatre Alliance, and through a
reading at Two River’s 2018 Crossing
Borders (Cruzando Fronteras)
festival of plays and music by
Latinx artists.
Benefiting Partner Organization:
The New Jersey Alliance for
Immigrant Justice is a statewide
membership-based coalition of
organizations that creates and
achieves policies in New Jersey
that welcome and support immigrants
to become rooted economically,
politically and socially within
the state.
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