### Event Description: Visiting Engagement - Invasive Species at Vineyard Theatre

**Event Title:** Visiting Engagement: Invasive Species

**Dates:** May 7 - June 30

**Location:** Vineyard’s Dimson Theater, 108 E 15th Street

**Synopsis:**
"The word crazy comes from crack, as in broken. I think to immigrate is to break yourself in half." Maia will stop at nothing to be in the American movies, even if it means losing her mind. Following the fraught journey of an Argentinean actor as she tests the limits of her American dream, *Invasive Species* is an outrageous true story about lying to live, living to lie, and how immigrating to the US might just be the role of a lifetime.

**Event Highlights:**
- **Playwright:** Maia Novi
- **Director:** Michael Breslin (Pulitzer finalist)
- **Executive Producer:** Jeremy O. Harris
- **Run Time:** 75 Minutes
- **Recommended Age:** 16+ (This play contains explicit language and references to suicide.)

**Cast:**
- Maia Novi
- Raffi Donatich
- Sam Gonzalez
- Alexandra Maurice
- Julian Sanchez
- Understudies: Paloma Maia Aisenberg, Tyler Cruz

**Creative Team:**
- **Movement Director:** Beth Gill
- **Original Music:** Jessica Char & Maxwell Neely-Cohen
- **Lighting Design:** Yichen Zhou
- **Costume Design:** Cole McCarty
- **Sound Design:** Jessie Char & Maxwell Neely-Cohen
- **Production Stage Manager:** Molly Shea
- **Assistant Director:** Louisa Jacobson
- **Creative Direction:** Jessie Char
- **Graphics:** Martin Naranjo
- **Dramaturg & Producer:** Amauta M. Firmino
- **Production Manager & Line Producer:** Shannon Molly Flynn

**Producers:**
- Danielle Perelman
- Folk Productions
- Arterial Projects

**Ticket Information:**
Tickets are available for purchase from May 7th through June 30th. For more details and to buy tickets, visit [www.invasivespeciesplay.com](http://www.invasivespeciesplay.com).

**Note:** After a sold-out run last June, *Invasive Species* returns for its Off-Broadway premiere. Don’t miss this compelling and thought-provoking play that explores the complexities of immigration and the pursuit of the American dream.

Cole McCarty

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