Once upon a time (neither here nor elsewhere but somewhere in between), there was and there was not a child… Finding Avi sends the audience searching for a single child inside a map made from scraps of San Diego’s queer history and fragments of re-imagined fairy tales. What we record and mythologize in our history shapes the possibilities we see in our future as children, as adults, and as everything in between. Finding Avi embraces young, queer people and their ability to make their own choices (and mistakes) while learning who they are – and where they find joy.

Elizagrace Madrone

is a writer, theater-maker, and experience designer living in-between uptown New York City and the Northern California backwoods and making small strange works in real and unreal spaces. LMDA Member and participant in the inaugural International Dramaturgy Lab (2020 – 2021). MFA Dramaturgy, Columbia University. Co-founder, 23.5° Tilt (current show: Marta Nesspek Presents…) www.elizagrace.net

Katherine Wilkinson

(she/they) is a queer director and writer based in Brooklyn. Katherine has spent the last decade of their career creating new, ensemble-driven plays and performances throughout the US and abroad. She is currently a 2022 WP Lab Member and a recent winner of the Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize. An Artist-in-Residence at Arcadia & Rutgers University, her/their work as a director is fluid, open, and engaged across many different mediums, directing classics, new plays, operas, musicals, and devised work. Her practice is rooted in imagination, creative communication, and physical rigor, all of which she uses to build trusting communities and transformative experiences and productions. Katherine has developed work with Classical Theatre of Harlem, Juilliard, WP Theatre, Signature Theatre, SITI Company, BRIC, The Watermill Center, among others. Katherine has Associate/Assistant Directed for Anne Bogart, Sam Gold, JoAnne Akalaitis, Whitney White, and Christopher Renshaw. www.katherinewilkinson.com

$20

Performances

SAT: 10:00 am, 11:50 am, 1:40 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:20 pm
SUN: 10:00 am, 11:50 am, 1:40 pm, 3:30 pm, 5:20 pm

Approx. Run Time

Run-time may vary – max 90 minutes

Location

Chapel Lawn
2881 Roosevelt Rd
San Diego, CA 92106

South Promenade

ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station – MAP

Outdoors

Patron Notes

Recommended for ages 12+. Interactive show. Audience members will be guided around performance space. Waiver is required. Audience members wear headphones. This is a ticketless event. Use your printed email confirmation for entry.