Lighting Designer

Betsy’ LaQuanda Ross knows a lot about the New York State Penitentiary system. Her regular visits to loved ones in various upstate institutions have made her quite the expert and a self-proclaimed “Peculiar Patriot.” In-between neighborhood updates and gossip, Betsy educates herself and the audience on the systemic inequity within America’s prison complex system and its effect on those behind bars, as well as their family and friends. 

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The Peculiar Patriot

Detroit Public Theatre

Emma is an actress. She is also living with an addiction, and it’s trying to kill her. In rehab, but not ready for recovery, Emma just wants to escape—through drugs, through performing, through anything that lets her make her own reality. David Muse directs his first production in the new Victor Shargai Theatre, a theatrical tour-de-force that evokes the vivid and disorienting world of intoxication and lies as Emma decides whether to fight for her recovery and the people, places, and things she’ll face there.



Lighting Designer

Andrew Cissna

Events

Past events

Feb 8 - Mar 5, 2023

The Peculiar Patriot · Detroit Public Theatre

Oct 11 - Nov 12, 2022

People, Places and Things · Studio Theatre

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