So many helped bring this work to life. First and foremost, Chris Ashley and Gabe Green and everyone at La Jolla Playhouse, where this play first saw the light of day. Paige Evans and Andre Bishop and the amazing staff of LCT3 / Lincoln Center Theater, where it found its finished form. Judy Clain, Terry Adams, Nicole Dewey, and the rest of Little, Brown and Co., for this edition. My indispensable agents Chris Till and Donna Bagdasarian. And of course, Marc Glick.
A play is a collaboration with so many artists. Kimberly Senior, my director from day one. Bernie White, ever Afzal. The amazing design teams in La Jolla and New York: Jack Magaw, Jill BC Du Boff, Elisa Benzoni, Jaymi Lee Smith, Emily Rebholz, Japhy Weideman. Casting directors Sharon Bialy and Gohar Gazazyan on the West Coast and Daniel Swee on the East Coast. And the wonderful actors who participated at every stage of this process: Greg Keller, Nadine Malouf, Tala Ashe, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Karen David, Dieterich Gray, Sheila Vand, Monika Jolly, Jolly Abraham, Ryan O’Nan, Faran Tahir, Stephen Plunkett, Roxanna Hope, Demosthenes Chrysan, and Anitha Gandhi.
I benefited from the insights of so many: Don Shaw, Steve Klein, Ami Dayan, Poorna Jagannathan, Dan Hancock, Shazad Akhtar, Shirley Fishman, Gaye Taylor Upchurch, Eric Rosen at Kansas City Rep, Seth Gordon at The Rep of St. Louis, Polly Carl, Natasha Sinha, Michael Pollard, Madani Younis at the Bush Theatre in London, Amanda Watkins at the Araca Group, Stuart Rosenthal, and Jerry Patch and Annie MacRae at MTC.
Finally, I want to acknowledge the support of Ritu Sahai-Mittal and Manish Mittal, as well as the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation.