“Endearingly funny and deeply affecting... It would be hard to identify a work for the theater with its finger more on the pulse of America right now.”
- The Washington Post
*RHODE ISLAND PREMIERE*
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION
MEANS TO ME
MEANS TO ME
BY
HEIDI SCHRECK
DIRECTED BY BRIEN LANG
SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 13
HEIDI SCHRECK
DIRECTED BY BRIEN LANG
SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 13
Since its premiere in 2019, this Pulitzer Prize finalist has taken the theatrical world by storm, breathing new life into our Constitution by imagining how it will shape the next generation of Americans. As a teenager, Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the country. In this hilarious, witty and refreshingly honest new play, she revisits her fifteen-year-old self to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the lasting impact of the document that shaped their journey.
This production of WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME is presented with support from Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C., and audience members like you.
CONTENT WARNING
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME contains mentions of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and discussions of abortion and its stigmatization. For further information regarding these content warnings, please contact the Box Office at 401.400.7100.
This production of WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME is presented with support from Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C., and audience members like you.
CONTENT WARNING
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME contains mentions of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and discussions of abortion and its stigmatization. For further information regarding these content warnings, please contact the Box Office at 401.400.7100.
Finalist! 2019 Pulitzer Prize
Winner! 2019 Obie Award, Best New American Play
Winner! 2019 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best American Play
Winner! 2019 Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Best New Play
Nominee: Two 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Play
Nominee: Two 2019 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play
“Uproariously funny, wrenchingly moving, critically challenging and politically inspiring.”
– The New York Review of Books
“Endearingly funny and deeply affecting... It would be hard to identify a work for the theater with its finger more on the pulse of America right now.”
– The Washington Post
“A charming and incisive analysis of gender and racial biases inherent to the U.S. Constitution that examines how this living document could evolve to fit modern America.”
– 2019 Pulitzer Prize Committee
““Not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important...What the Constitution Means to Me is one of the things we always say we want theater to be: an act of civic engagement. It restarts an argument many of us forgot we even needed to have.”
– The New York Times
"Heidi Schreck's fiercely urgent and soul-restoring What the Constitution Means to Me keeps uncannily in step with the times.”
– The Observer
– The New York Review of Books
“Endearingly funny and deeply affecting... It would be hard to identify a work for the theater with its finger more on the pulse of America right now.”
– The Washington Post
“A charming and incisive analysis of gender and racial biases inherent to the U.S. Constitution that examines how this living document could evolve to fit modern America.”
– 2019 Pulitzer Prize Committee
““Not just the best play to open on Broadway so far this season, but also the most important...What the Constitution Means to Me is one of the things we always say we want theater to be: an act of civic engagement. It restarts an argument many of us forgot we even needed to have.”
– The New York Times
"Heidi Schreck's fiercely urgent and soul-restoring What the Constitution Means to Me keeps uncannily in step with the times.”
– The Observer
CAST + CREATIVE TEAM
What the Constitution
Means to Me by Heidi Schreck Directed by Brien Lang Scenic Design by Monica Shinn Sound / Light Design by Andy Russ Costume Design by Matt Oxley Asst. Direction by Ulrika Brand Stage Manager, James Kane* Assistant Stage Manager, Kerin Hagin Costume Assistant, Arianna Davey Front of House Management by Christine Treglia Volunteer Management by Renee Bessette Production Photographer, Erin X. Smithers Press / Media Inquiries: Niki Healy, Bright Publicity |
*Appears courtesy Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Heidi Schreck is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her critically-acclaimed play What the Constitution Means to Me played an extended, sold-out run on Broadway in 2019, and was nominated for two Tony Awards. It had subsequent runs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Mark Taper Forum, the Guthrie, Seattle Repertory Theatre and the McCarter Theatre, as well as theatres in Houston, Miami, Omaha, Nashville, Charlotte and Chicago. A filmed version of the play premiered on Amazon Prime Video, and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award, a PGA Award and DGA Award. What the Constitution Means to Me was named Best of the Year by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, The New Yorker and more. Schreck’s other plays Grand Concourse, Creature, and There Are No More Big Secrets have also been produced in NYC and all over the country. Screenwriting credits include I Love Dick, Billions, Nurse Jackie, Dispatches from Elsewhere and shows in development with Amazon Studios, Plan B and A24. She is the recipient of three Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Theatre World Award, as well as the Horton Foote Playwriting Award and the Hull-Warriner Award from the Dramatists Guild. Schreck was awarded Smithsonian Magazine’s 2019 American Ingenuity Award, for her work in the Performing Arts.
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An award-winning*, not-for-profit professional theatre company, the Wilbury Theatre Group engages our community in thought-provoking conversation through new works, reimagined classics and adventurous playmaking. We are idealistic, ambitious, and stubborn in our resolve to create theatre that entertains, enlightens, and inspires.
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).
*WINNER of the 2018 National Theatre Company Grant from the American Theatre Wing (The Tony Awards).