DAT: The Interrogation/By the Numbers written by Alexandria Wailes and directed by Anne Tomasetti

The plot

PLAY DESCRIPTION:

Twilight Zone-esque inspired piece exploring the ideas of belonging, identity and tribalism. The elevator can be used as a metaphor for moving upwards towards enlightenment,  downwards towards becoming more grounded within oneself. When the doors open, who we are when we move forward from our own (and collective) past.

ABOUT PLAYWRIGHT:

Alexandria Wailes (playwright) received a 2020 Obie for Sustained Excellence as an Artist and Advocate. She received a Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play For Colored Girls.. at The Public. Her career spans Broadway, Off Broadway, TV and film as an actor, director, choreographer and a director of ASL. She works mostly in NYC and LA and has performed internationally in Japan, Senegal, India, Romania and Sydney, Australia.

ABOUT DIRECTOR:

Anne Tomasetti (Director & Editor of Alexandria Wailes Interrogation/By the Numbers) resides in NYC and is an actor with BAs in Theatre and ASL Studies from Gallaudet University who has performed and toured with the National Theatre of the Deaf, Cleveland Playhouse Signstage Theatre, the Centerlight Theatre of Chicago, and with the New York Deaf Theatre. She has an 18-year career as a theater interpreter director/advisor/interpreter for Hands On, a 35-year NYC nonprofit organization that provides ASL access to audiences who are deaf. Her work spans 90+ stage productions, of which theatre companies include The Public Theatre (Shakespeare in the Park and mainstage productions), the Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, and other Broadway and Off-Broadway Theatres. Anne is also an ASL Coach, ASL Master, Consultant, and Director of ASL for stage, TV and Film, most recently for CODA (sundance 2021 Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner) and Crip Camp (2020 Audience Award Winner) and ran an 8-member team of Deaf Talent to interpret The Public's virtual world premiere of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's docu-Zoom play, THE LINE, about medical workers on the frontlines of COVID-19. Anne is an occasional Interpreter for the Theater teaching artist for ART/NY and Hands On. She enjoys dabbling in video editing projects and during the day, Anne is a CDI, Educational Interpreter Screener, and Student ASL Fluency Evaluator with the NYC Department of Education.

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• Age Rating Teen(13+ years old)
• Running time 00:11:21 mins



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