The Bushwick Starr presents:

demons.
written and directed by Keelay Gipson

Produced in association with JAG Productions and Oye Group

May 16 - June 10, 2023
At the Connelly Theater at 220 East 4th Street, NYC
Tuesdays - Saturdays at 7pm (final show on 6/10 at 1pm)
The show runs 90 minutes, no intermission

Ticketing
General Admission Previews: $20 or $40 If You Can
General Admission starting May 20: $25 or $45 If You Can
Students + Seniors: use code STUSEN0523 for $15 preview tickets and $20 reg. tickets

Mask required performances every Wednesday, otherwise masks suggested

Venue accessibility info: connellytheater.org/accessibility

The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to partner with JAG Productions and Oye Group to present demons., a new Afro-Surrealist play written and directed by award-winning playwright Keelay Gipson. When the death of their patriarch draws family members home, they must reckon with grief and the haunting realities that death often brings to the surface. A surreal dark comedy, demons. is a meditation on the reality of getting older, of losing a parent, and that ever-elusive quest to exorcize the trauma a family passes down through the generations.

FEATURING:
Donell James Foreman, Paige Gilbert, Joseph Lymous, Ashton Muniz, Christopher B. Portley, Gayle Samuels, and Jason Veasey

Set design by Yu Shibagaki, lighting design by Minjoo Kim, sound design by Christopher Darbassie and puppet design by Cedwan Hooks. Associate direction/costume design by Machel Ross. Intimacy Coordination by Fay Simpson. The director of puppetry is Jon Riddleberger. Casting is by The Bushwick Starr.

Artwork by Felix Junior

Check out this Spotify playlist with songs that inspired demons.!

Access & discount for these communities only:

BLACK THEATER NIGHT on 5/25, $15 with code DEM0525
LGBTQIA+ Community Night on 5/27, $15 with code DEM0527

Black Theater Night will feature a post-show talk-back moderated by artDoula, DRIA Brown, with Keelay Gipson and members of the cast as panelists. The talk-back will hold space for both joy and the exploration of grief. More about DRIA Brown below!

LGBTQIA+ Community Night will feature a pre-show mixer with music and refreshments featuring special demons. donuts by Bite BK

demons. is made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation. Production design support for demons. provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).

demons. was originally developed as part of JAGFest 2019 and New York Stage and Film’s 2022 Summer Season at Marist College, and received pre-production support from Evening Squire Productions.