The 2023 presentation of the TRU DIVERSITY program initiative
in partnership with LEVIATHAN LAB
Monday evening November 6, 7pm
MARIANAS TRENCH
by Scott Sickles
directed by Janet Bentley
produced by Ariel Estrada and Leviathan Lab
Teddy Passanante and Anzor Khasanov are eleven-year-old pen pals. Teddy is an unathletic, half-Korean nerd living in a liberal U.S. made up of what used to be Blue States. Anzor is the child of Muslim refugees trapped in a militant right-wing Christian theocracy that used to be the Red States. The boys know their correspondence is mandated and monitored by Anzor’s government.
With Nik Duggan, Jinn S.KIm, Chad Anthony Miller, Jon Okabayashi, Christine Verleny, Perri Yaniv, Nicholas Yenson and Morgan Zipf-Meister.
***TRU MEMBERS AND FOLLOWERS, USE CODE "TRUDIVERSITY" TO RESERVE NOW/DONATE LATER (if you wish)***
MARIANAS TRENCH is the first installment of a love story between two men from when they're 11-year-old pen pals until the end of the world nearly 50 years later.
Leviathan Lab is a creative studio for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander theatre. MARIANAS TRENCH is the first piece in a new speculative fiction trilogy by WGA award-winning and Emmy-nominated writer and TRU board member Scott C. Sickles. All proceeds will benefit Leviathan Lab’s showcase production of MARIANAS TRENCH in Late Spring 2024. The reading will be followed by a reception.
PAY-WHAT-YOU-WISH TICKETS, $15 – $500
