Behind Blue Sky

NYU Steinhardt
NYU Program in Drama Therapy, Theatre and Health Lab
Behind Blue Sky: A Therapeutic Film and Theatre Response to the Soul Wound of 9/11 on New York City

The performance will be streamed on this page on August 27 and 28 at 7pm EDT and August 29 at 1pm EDT.

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For the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, an entirely BIPOC-identified ensemble of drama therapists and theatre artists examine its legacy. In this current age of pandemic and social-political reckoning, they grapple with the permanent scars inflicted on the body of NYC. They ask:  What are the untold stories of trauma of that day? What happened to the dust that settled on the psyche of the city? And, how do we transform the dust and grief of 9/11 into radical hope and a vision of the future?

Filmed throughout NYC, Behind Blue Sky weaves personal and fictionalized narratives based on the stories of the ensemble as well as those gathered from people living and working in NYC at the time; it explores the legacy of 9/11 at a time in which the city is remaking itself again.

Ensemble: Chantal Georges, Sara Kliger, Jonathan Howie, Carlos Rodriguez-Perez, Hala Shah, Allyn Sitjar, Jennifer Tam

Production Team: Armand Volkas, Jesse Bonnell, Lynn Hodeib, Ellen Smittle, Gabrielle Fidis, Samantha Artese