Directors

Dramaturg

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Costume designer

Scenic consultant

assistant scenic Designer/TD

puppet design

music

stage manager

Alec Duffy & Lori E. Parquet

Nikaury Rodriguez

Amina Alexander

Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste

Ali Sousa

mimi lien

Roni Sipp

Chris palmieri

Alec Duffy

Alivia Nosrati

Hannah

Peter

Seb

Henry

Michelle

Riley

O’Reilley

Nisi Sturgis*

Brandt Adams*

Heather Cunningham*

John Lenartz*

Rebecca Mozo*

Dinah Berkeley*

Peter Mills Weiss

OBIE-winning theater company Hoi Polloi (Three Pianos; All Hands) returns to JACK with a peek inside the meeting of a white anti-racist affinity group. As the members reckon with sacrifices they must make to live up to their principles, other forces begin to disrupt and unsettle their efforts. An uncanny ode to honesty, forgiveness, and accountability, this ensemble tour de force pulls the audience on a descent from the too-real to the sub-real. 

From the Directors

"As a theater-maker, I often work out very personal questions when creating plays, and it is through these questions that White on White began to take shape. I asked myself, "What am I willing to give up in the struggle for a more equitable society?" and "What does accountability look like for white people like myself who are asking the right questions but still benefiting from the system of privilege that being white affords?"

Alec Duffy

“…this is difficult stuff to talk about intellectually, let alone theatrically…to really tell the truth about what whiteness is. Because I feel like one of the tools of whiteness is to be vague about it, to be obscure about it, to not be straightforward about it…so that it can continue to exist…”

Lori Elizabeth Parquet

Articles & Interviews

American Grotesque

“one of the most exhilaratingly bizarre scenes of the theatrical summer, if not year”

Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Times

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In White on White, an Anti-racism Conversation Turns Monstrous

“It’s elegant writing, delicately juxtaposing what’s persuasive in this kind of work and what isn’t, and it’s precisely, even superbly, performed.”

“There’s electricity in the way the production packs us all in so close together, about the clever way Quillen Camp ties the play to recent events, about the virtuosically deft orchestration of the characters and their tense efforts at reasoning and argument.”

Helen Shaw, Vulture

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The Explosive Production of White on WhiteTeaches Audiences How to Accept Being Uncomfortable

“As an Asian person, I felt strongly at times like an interloper, at other times as if I were watching illicitly-obtained footage of a bribe being made. For a certain type of audience member, I can imagine it feeling—and I mean this in the best way—like a much-needed shot in the arm that sickens you enough to certain experiences for your moral health.”

Rhoda Feng, Observer