Saturday, August 24 at 7:00 PM
Sunday, August 25 at 2:30 PM
at HB Playwrights Theatre
124 Bank St, New York
Creator: Kaili Y. Turner
Music Team: Damany Mathis, RJ Williams, Kaili Y. Turner
Book by: Kaili Y. Turner
Producers: Michele Baldwin, Xavier Rodney
Choreographer: Myriam Moss
Assistant Choreographer: Amber Bloom
Segregation banned at Rydell! American teens, Dorothy and Lenny navigate friendship, romance, and the shift from crinolines to pencil skirts in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education and the integration of Rydell High. Sheen the Musical brings all new music and a new luster to a classic tale of teen turmoil at the dawn of the 1960’s. Sheen is the answer to Grease you never knew you needed, but are damn sure glad you have!
Kaili Y. Turner (Creator/Writer/Director/Actor) is a Black Indigenous (enrolled member of Nipmuc Nation) comedian, actress, writer, producer, and puppeteer with a MFA at the Actors Studio Drama School. With a passion for storytelling and representation, Kaili creates content that’s relatable, funny, edgy and nuanced. Her moto: A spoon full of laughter helps the medicine go down, whether it’s overt or seems like just plain fun, there’s a message in her madness. Additionally, Kaili is an alumni of ABC/Disney Pilot Prep Program for Native Americans, SNL/Second City Scholarship, The Native American TV Writers Lab, Collective 5 Showrunners program. For more information go to her website at www.kailiyturner.com or follow her @mdamstarlight on IG.
HB Studio is dedicated to training and practice for the theater, and seeks to provide a commerce-free environment for the nurturing and growth of theater artists. In pursuit of this goal, HB offers five one-week Rehearsal Space Residencies each year for the development of creative projects. The HB Rehearsal Space Residency is an opportunity for practicing theater artists to collaborate on experimental projects, develop new work, and share workshop presentations among peers and colleagues, for constructive critical feedback and mutual growth. The Rehearsal Space Residency is an open opportunity; you do not have to be affiliated with HB Studio to apply. However we do ask that our resident artists work with us to engage with our community of students and faculty while in residence at HB. For more information on our HB Residencies. Click here.
