A play about going home to face the life you locked away, because its ghosts keep following you. Help us raise funds to bring this play to downtown NYC!
In Search of Elaina opens on Annette, living comfortably in her city life. When she learns that an old, dear friend has passed away, someone from the youth she worked hard to leave behind, a haunting regret is reignited. This drives Annette to travel home and face what she has worked so hard to bury. Past and present collide as Annette is pulled apart by who she is trying to be and who she undeniably once was. Friends and family reunite, reliving old times, traversing grief, and somehow finding their way forward.
This production, produced by Drift In Act Out (DIAO), will premiere in the Players Theatre's black box space September 5 - 22, 2024. This is real, live, downtown theater and cannot happen without support. We are asking you to donate what you can to help fund our production.
Your donations will help us with so many theatrical elements! They will help offer stipends to our cast and creative team, reimbursing them for their time, hard work, and talents. Our team includes a cast of SEVEN AMAZING ACTORS, our talented director, and our dedicated design and production team including a set designer, lighting designer, sound designer, costume designer, and stage manager. Donations will help us purchase costumes to build our characters, and will help us acquire our set pieces and props that help us create the world of the play. From an apartment in New York City to the redwood tree forests of California's Santa Cruz Mountains, from a secluded mountain home with an active fire pit to a small town mechanic's shop featuring a totaled car, we are creating physical spaces and elements that pull audiences into our story. Of course, all plays need rehearsal, and donations will assist in paying for rehearsal space as our actors spend the month of August learning and developing their performances. Each of these elements is essential in bringing our story to life, and your donations help us get there.
This will be Drift In Act Out's third full length production, after producing two plays in the NYCFringe Festival. Additionally, DIAO has produced two theatrical festivals bringing a number of new short plays and musicals to life. Drift In Act Out strives to serve as a medium of artistic growth and expression for artists, and is thrilled to bring you its next production, In Search of Elaina. We invite you to join us on this journey.
The Team
Playwright/Producer - Kara Ayn Napolitano Co-producer - Rosie Kolbo Co-producer - Jake Platt Director - Joy Donze
As a supporter, we would love for you to come and see the play YOU are helping us create. Our performances are September 5 - 22, Thursdays through Saturdays at 7 pm and Sundays at 3 pm. Select from available performances.
Special thanks in our program
Donate $100.00 or more
Amount is fully tax-deductible.
YOU are bringing theater to life, and we want to offer you a special thanks. With your consent, we will list you as a donor in our program and on our website.
Program signed by the creative team
Donate $300.00 or more
Amount over $5.00 is tax-deductible.
Each of us is grateful for your contribution and will put it down in words on our play's program just for you!
Two FREE tickets AND a copy of the play signed by the playwright
Donate $1,000.00 or more
Amount over $130.00 is tax-deductible.
We absolutely want you to see the play you are so generously helping bring to life. Choose two tickets from available seats AND leave with a fully printed and bound copy of the play, signed by the playwright with a personalized thank you.
