are you listening?

LOU, a 27-year old mechanic, is on a trip to San Angelo, Texas when she spots the 17-year old BEA stranded with a backpack by the side of the road. So Lou decides to offer her a ride. But when Bea gets in the car, Lou realizes that Bea is trying to run away from home, and won’t tell her why. 

While Lou drives West to visit family & process the sudden death of her mother, Bea must come to terms with what happened to her back home, and find a way to sleep at night. But as the two of them travel further West, they run into a mysterious cat, a series of ghost towns, and a group of shadowy cowboys that appear in the night like the Marfa Lights. Will Lou overcome the loss of a mother who was hard to love? Will Bea ever go back home? And what exactly are they going to do about the men & ghost towns in Texas that seem to want to swallow them whole? A story about maps, mothers, their dyke daughters, & one particular cat – are you listening? – is a queer Western about grief like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

TEAM
Written by Noma Mirny
Adapted from the graphic novel by Tillie Walden

Directed by Sil Rivera
Assistant Directed by Olivia Keville & Noma Mirny
Stage Managed by Divya Sarma
Project Assistance by Nghi Nguyen

SCENIC Design by Julia Freitas-Gordon
PROPS Design by Vivi Hunt
LIGHTING Design by Tori Oatway
COSTUME Design by Kelli Converso
SOUND Design by Noma Mirny
MUSIC COMPOSITION by Eli Coe
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY by Delia Frances Kenagy

Crew: Edie Hoesterey, Adison Keith, & Omer Philosoph

CAST
Paige Meegan as BEA
Isa DeLeón Garcia as LOU
Signy Ackermann as CORA / VÉRONICA / CASHIER
Luke Wyngarden as BERTRAM TALCOMY / MACK / MAP MAN
/ KIND STRANGER / BALDING MAN / WAITER

production history
Playwrights Horizons Theater School — Fall 2024 Season - Oct. 31st - Nov 2nd 2024 (Production)