November 13th at 5:00 PM

han van sciver:
Happy birthday han

When you lose something they say to retrace your steps. A coming-of-age spasm packed with unreliable memories, chaotic gay dancing, and a very earnest triangle solo. Happy Birthday Han is a cohesion ritual for healing your inner child, and loving your present flailing self.

About the artists

han van sciver

Han Van Sciver is a queer, trans, non-binary, multidisciplinary artist. Acting credits include the world premiere of At The Wedding at Lincoln Center, the title role in Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and MJ Kaufman's Galatea in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Most recently, they starred in Roger Q Mason's Hide and Hide in the inaugural Breaking the Binary Festival. Their solo show, Bicycle Face, has toured off-Broadway, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Their full-length play, Dragon, was recently developed with New York Theatre Workshop. They have developed percussion scores with é boylan/Ars Nova, Storm Thomas/Baltimore Center Stage, and Hannah Cornuea/Joe's Pub. MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep. www.hanvansciver.com / @rhymes.with.man

Rachel christopher
Creative Consultant, Acting & Voice

Rachel Christopher is an award-winning actor, coach, and teacher based in New York City. She’s worked in theater, TV, and film in New York City, regionally, and internationally. Acting credits include the Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and Aleshea Harris’s What to Send Up When It Goes Down at BAM and Playwrights Horizons. She is a recipient of the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, and the Margot Skinner Fellowship at Trinity Repertory Company. Rachel is an Assistant Professor of Practice at Brown Trinity Rep MFA Program in Acting and Directing where she teaches contemporary and classical verse acting studios, and original solo performance. She has coached professional dancers, musicians, and actors, and recently served as the production vocal coach for soft at MCC Theater. @rachel_e_christopher

Will Steinberger
Director

Will Steinberger is a Drama League Award nominated director and producer. He has directed and developed new plays with New York Stage and Film, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, Hartford Stage, the Drama League, Berkshire Theatre Group, New Light Theatre Project, the Wilma, and InterAct. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Forward, WHYY, Philadelphia Weekly, and Philadelphia Magazine. Recent credits include Gina Femia’s meet you at the Galaxy Diner. (New Light and The Tank), Charles Gershman’s Oedipus 2.0.2.0 (All For One f/ Eddie Cooper; 2021 Drama League nom; screened in NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival), Johnny G. Lloyd’s Or, an Astronaut Play (The Tank and InVersion Theatre, of which Will is a proud co-founder) and birthday birthday birthday (Columbia University), and Catherine Weingarten’s I’m So Hot (New Light, Pocket Universe, and The Tank).Will is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and was honored as a finalist for the 2020 National Directors Fellowship. As a producer, he has worked with Second Stage, The Jimmy Awards/Broadway League, The Play Company, New Light Theatre Project, Andy Bragen Theatre Projects, and the Jewish Plays Project. WSteinberger.com.