Ma-Yi presents The Children of Vonderly

Ma-Yi Theater Company presents the World Premiere of Lloyd Suh's new play The Children of Vonderly at The East 13th Street Theatre from September 22 through October 21. After intensive in-house workshops in July, the cast and creative team are set to bring this uniquely American story to life.

In The Children of Vonderly a headstrong Jewish matriarch and her unconventional multi-ethnic family of adopted and disabled children band together after a crisis threatens to rip them apart. Bound by his wheelchair and burdened by family obligations, oldest brother Jerry Vonderly looks for ways to balance his mother's outlandish expectations and his own dreams of a "normal" life outside the family's anything-but-traditional home in Indianapolis, Indiana.

William Jackson Harper leads the cast of The Children of Vonderly which also includes Carlo Alban, Jackie Chung, Lynn Cohen, Graeme Gillis, Stephen Jutras, Shawn Randall, and Maureen Sebastian.

The play has set design by Sarah Lambert; costume design by Maiko Matsushima, lighting design by Josh Bradford; and sound design by Fabian Obispo.

Lloyd Suh is the author of American Hwangap (NYSCA Grant, Lark BareBones), The Garden Vairety (South Coast Repertory commission), and Masha No Home (first produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre; West Coast Premiere at East West Players), as well as several shorter plays, including Not All Korean Girls Can Fly (EST Marathon 2006) and With A Hammer & A Nail (EST/Thicker Than Water 2002). A graduate of Indiana University and the New School, he is an alum of the Dramatists Guild Playwriting Fellowship program, EST's Youngblood, and the Lark Theatre's Playwrights' Workshop. He is Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writer's Lab and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Actors Studio. He directed NAATCO's world premiere of Michael Golamco's Cowboy V. Samurai.

Tickets will go on sale in September. To be sent a reminder, email Ma-Yi Theatre with "Vonderly" in the subject line.