INTERSTATE
Written by Amina Henry
Directed by Cat Miller

Spurred into action by an unexpected crisis, Red packs her adult children into her rusted convertible and heads across the country to try and save the family she feels slipping away. A play about growing up, letting go, and navigating personal evolution with those who have known us the longest. INTERSTATE is a funny, dark and compassionate look at a family trying to figure out how to hold onto one another while setting themselves free. 

The production:
We are incredibly grateful to Dixon Place, who’ve offered us the free use of their performance and rehearsal spaces for this production. But we need to raise $22,000 to pay for the production costs, including fees for our incredible cast and crew, scenery, costumes, props and other production costs. For us, this is a substantial amount of money to raise in a short period of time. This opportunity came together quickly and we want to take full advantage of it.

The story:
In an increasingly polarized environment, when outside forces are trying to dictate what stories are being told and who is allowed to tell them, INTERSTATE presents an intimate look at an American family navigating our current moment.

This moment:
This is an enormously challenging moment for the arts, particularly for new plays. Opportunities for artists have been disappearing regularly for several years and producing plays has become increasingly difficult and more expensive. Through the generous support of Dixon Place, we have a place to present our work, so every dollar we raise goes directly toward the work you'll see onstage.

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INTERSTATE will be presented at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St, NYC
December 4-20, 2025
all shows at 7:30 PM

If you'd like to preorder a ticket to the show, you can do so here. 

Amina Henry is a playwright who writes satirical fairy tales for children and adults. Selected productions include: The Animals, Ducklings, Hunter John and Jane and The Johnsons, all at JACK, P.S. at Ars Nova, Little Rapes at Long Island University with The New Group, Nothing, Nothing at HERO Theatre (Los Angeles), The Great Novel at New Light Theater, Happily Ever at Brooklyn College, and Bully at Interrobang Theater (Baltimore), Clubbed Thumb's  Winterworks, and SUNY Purchase. Her work has been produced and developed by The New Group, Atlantic Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, Page 73, Project Y, National Black Theater, Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Generator, The Brick, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Kitchen Dog Theater, HERE Arts Center, and the cell. She is a 2020 recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award and an affiliate artist of New Georges. She was a member of the Women's Project 2022-2024 Lab where her play When the Other Mary Celeste Sank: A Strange and Umweltian Tale was featured in the 2024 Pipeline Festival. MFA Playwriting, Brooklyn College.

Cat Miller is a director, playwright, and arts administrator. Her play The Hope Hypothesis was a semifinalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Premiere Stages Play Festival and PlayPenn and premiered under her direction with Voyage Theater Company in Fall 2019. As a director she has directed and developed work at the Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Steppenwolf, Ma-Yi Theater, HERE, The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre and many others. Assistant directing credits on Broadway: Fish in the Dark, Of Mice and Men, and The Motherfucker With the Hat. Cat is currently a . Cat is the recipient of both a Drama League fall fellowship and first stage residency, as well as the FIFE Fellowship with The Bechdel Project. She was a 2021 member of the COOP Clusterf**k writers group, and was a Playwright Horizons Directing Resident; Member, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. MFA, Northwestern University.