A play in three acts
Characters 6-7
4 M, 3F
Characters 6-7
4 M, 3F
Reading, Yale Young Indigenous Play Festival, 2025
Workshop, Alter Theater & UC Berkeley, 2025
Reading, New York University, 2024
Finalist, Page73, 2024
Reading, Here Arts/Amerinda, 2023
Semi-Finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2023
Reading, AICH Summer Artist Residency, 2023
Excerpt Reading, The Public Theater, 2022
Reading, New York University, 2022
In the middle of an unnamed desert sits a lone church just at the edge of town. Sister Karina, Sister Maggie, and the Father all lead the small Native congregation that comes through its doors. In the five years since Sister Karina found God and joined the church, calamity has struck the small town, leading to a string of deaths that some in the community believe to be God punishing them. Inside his darkened room, the Father believes he's hearing the voice of God, and what God has told him to do reverberates through the Native community, causing an uproar inside and out. Leading to a decision that the community must make that tears them apart.
Drew and director Real Vargas Alanis
Workshopping "From Above"
Linda Amayo-Hassan as "Sister Maggie"
Katherine Balena-Benitez as "April"
Tasi Alabastro as "The Father"
Lea Sanginiti and Tasi Alabastro as "Sister Karina" and "The Father"
Script development at UC Berkeley
Cast and Crew of "From Above" with Alter Theater & UC Berkeley
Workshop with Alter Theater & UC Berkeley on "From Above."
Photo credit Laurie A Macfee
Drew and the director, Real Vargas Alanis, Alter Theater & UC Berkeley, 2025.
Phot credit Laurie A Macfee.
Drew, Patrick Russel, and Beth Piatote at an Artist Talk with Alter Theater & UC Berkeley.
Photo Credit: Joanna Wong
Drew at an Artist Talk with Alter Theater & UC Berkeley at UC Berkeley, 2025.
Photo credit: Joanna Wong
