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AUDIENCE CONVERSATIONS

Dream Making
THUR, MAY 11 at 7:00PM

Quisqueya Celebration

SAT, MAY 13 at 1:00PM

Community as Character
SAT, MAY 20 at 2:00PM

Authenticity
WED, JUN 7 at 7:00PM

TALKBACKS

Cast Talkback
FRI, MAY 12 at 7:00PM

Playwright & Director
TUE, MAY 16 at 7:00PM

OPEN CAPTION PERFORMANCE

TUE, MAY 30 at 7:00PM

SPANISH SUBTITLED PERFORMANCE – PRESENTACIÓN CON SUBTÍTULOS EN ESPAÑOL

WED, JUNE 7 at 7:00PM – MIÉR, 7 de JUNIO a las 7:00PM

EN ESPAÑOL

In BEES & HONEY, married couple Manuel and Johaira are entering new phases in their lives. But as the challenges of life and marriage mount, the young and ambitious couple must answer the age-old question: Is Love enough? Inspired by Juan Luis Guerra’s Como Abeja Al Panal, this Washington Heights love story is written by GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN and directed by MELISSA CRESPO.

MUST CLOSE JUN 11

 

COVID POLICY

PLEASE NOTE: Effective MAR 21 2023, masks will be optional (but encouraged) for audience members. Proof of vaccination will no longer be required of audience members and visitors. Masks will be available at the theater.

In our continuing efforts to create as safe an environment as possible, we continually update our COVID-19 policy with guidance from the CDC and NYS Department of Health.

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Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at
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MCC THEATER SPACE
511 W 52 ST
NY, NY 10019

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GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN

PLAYWRIGHT

GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN (Playwright, she/her/ella) is a playwright, performer and screenwriter from Chicago, based in NYC. She’s an Ars Nova Resident Artist, a 2020 Steinberg Playwriting Award recipient, and Artistic Associate of Black Lives, Black Words. She is the Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Latinx Playwrights Circle NYC. Her plays include Not For SaleMy Father’s KeeperDaughters of the RebellionA Shero’s Journey or What Anacaona and Yemayá Taught MeBlowout. She was a Co-Producer of Atlantic Theater Company’s African Caribbean MixFest 2021. She’s worked on projects with HBO, FX, and Amazon. Guadalís has performed as an actor in Chicago, NYC, and St. Louis. Bees and Honey had its first staged reading with SOL Project’s SOLFest 2018.

MELISSA CRESPO

DIRECTOR

MELISSA CRESPO (Director, she/her/hers) is a director of new plays, musicals, and opera. Upcoming: Yoga Play by Dipika Guha (Geva Theatre Center), and Sheepdog by Kevin Artigue at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. As a playwright, her play Egress, co-written with Sarah Saltwick, recently had a rolling world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company and Amphibian Stage. Melissa received her M.F.A. in Directing from The New School for Drama. She is a Founding Editor of 3Views on Theater and is the Associate Artistic Director of Syracuse Stage. https://www.melissacrespo.com

CAST

MARIBEL MARTINEZ

Johaira

Maribel Martinez is a multi-hyphenate artist, proudly Black-Latina, with Dominican and Puerto Rican roots.  She’s been involved with Bees and Honey since its first staged reading at SOL Project’s SOLFest in 2018, and is honored to bring Johaira to life for its world premiere. She’s an Artistic Producer for the Dominican Artists Collective; she wrote and performed in DAC’s “The Cooking Project,” presented by New York Theatre Workshop’s Artistic Instigators virtual series in 2021. She’s part of The Latinx Playwrights Circle community and considers it one of her favorite artistic homes. Credits include Off-Broadway: Will You Come With Me? (PlayCo); Julius Cesar (New York Shakespeare in the Park). Select Regional Theatre: Mushroom (People’s Light); Vanity Fair (Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater); Christmas at Pemberley (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Henry V P 1 (Folger); Black Joy Project (JAG). Film / Television: Evil (CBS), New Amsterdam (ABC), The Watcher (Netflix), Sacrifice (BET+), Dr. Death (Peacock). MFA, UC Irvine.

XAVIER PACHECO

MANUEL

Xavier Pacheco has been an actor his entire life. In 2013, he won the English-Speaking-Union National Shakespeare Competition. That summer he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and played a lead role in a Public Works’ production of Shakespeare in the Park, at only 16 years old. In 2015 he graduated from his performing arts high school as Valedictorian of his class. Xavier went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre at Muhlenberg College. Last year he received his MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program, where he was also the youngest in his class. He is excited to be making his
debut with MCC. Credits include: The Public Theater: Richard III. Public Works:
The Tempest. NYU Graduate Acting: Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Romeo
& Juliet. Epic Theatre Ensemble: Hamlet & Ophelia, Much Ado About
Nothing. New York Classical Theatre: The Winter’s Tale. Bay Street Theater: The
Teeming Autumn. Film: Romeo & Juliet (2021).

Press

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This Is Why We Tell Stories’: 3 Afro-Latina Playwrights on Their Off-Broadway Debuts
Guadalís Del Carmen, Christin Eve Cato, and Julissa Contreras talk about authenticity, new forms, and making shows for their own community—and their own families.

By Jacob Santos

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Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring
The playwright and actor Guadalís Del Carmen was supposed to go to law school. At least that was her mother’s plan for her.

By Alexis Soloski, Laura Collins-Hughes, Roslyn Sulcas and Rhoda Feng

REHEARSAL PHOTOS

PRODUCTION PHOTOS

QUISQUEYA CELEBRATION

scenic design SHOKO KAMBARA
costume design DEVARIO D. SIMMONS
lighting design REZA BEHJAT
sound design GERMÁN MARTÍNEZ
original music DILSON
intimacy and fight director TENIECE DIVYA JOHNSON
specialty choreography MAYTE NATALIO
original scenic artwork DANIEL PEGUERO
casting by THE TELSEY OFFICE / DESTINY LILLY, CSA
production stage manager LORI ANN ZEPP

ACCESSIBILITY

OPEN CAPTION performance for BEES & HONEY is scheduled for Tuesday, May 30 at 7pm.

THE ROBERT W. WILSON MCC THEATER SPACE is fully ADA-accessible, including:

  • Self-opening lobby doors with the push of a button to enter and exit
  • Elevator access to each floor
  • Ramp with handrail leading to the Newman Mills Theater
  • 3 Wheelchair-accessible restrooms are available in the main lobby restrooms; 
  • 2 accessible single stalls on the Mezzanine Floor.

Please Note: The Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater is on the ground level.

The option to purchase a wheelchair seat with a companion seat is available for every performance date of every production for each theater. If further accommodations are needed please email audienceservices@mcctheater.org or call our box office at 646-506-9393.

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