Doubling possible. Additional roles may be added to accommodate your ensemble of actors.

Cast of Characters:

• Ali
• Aasha
• Kahlid
• Jameelah
• Abdullah
• Gary
• Grace
• Rosa
• Hector
• Thao
• Mai
• Caitlin

Chorus of Animals

• Mr. & Mrs. Hyena
• Baby Hyena
• Hyena 1-3
• Lion
• Fox
• Camel
• Deer
• Sheep 1-3
• Mouse

The following resources are included in each PlayKit:

• Opening Act Edition PDF script and score
• Opening Act performance license for 1-8 performances (choose the number of performances using drop-down bar).
• Copy license to copy included PDF script for your cast, crew, and production team. There is no additional cost for scripts! 
• Media pack including logo PNG & SVG's as well as template poster files.
• Director's Guide with tips, suggested rehearsal activities, FAQ, and more!
• Demo tracks with vocals for rehearsal
• Production audio tracks for performance

Christina Ham's plays have been developed and produced both nationally and internationally with the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Center Theater Group, The Guthrie Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Goodman Theater, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Tony Award winning producer Arielle Tepper Madover off-Broadway at Theater Row, South Africa’s The Market Theatre, the Tokyo International Arts Festival among many others. Her theater for young audiences play Four Little Girls: Birmingham: 1963 was directed by Tony Award winning actress Phylicia Rashad and performed in front of a sold-out audience at the Kennedy Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. It was simultaneously presented in 47 states across the country and streamed worldwide to commemorate the bombing with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Attorney General Eric Holder conducting the post-show discussion in Birmingham. Her theater for young audiences musical Ruby!: The Story of Ruby Bridges was the best-selling show in the history of St. Paul's SteppingStone Theatre. Christina is a two-time recipient of a McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting and a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, the Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting, a MacDowell Colony Artist Residency, and a previous nominee for Center Theater Group’s Richard E. Sherwood Award for Distinguished Emerging Theater Artist. She has received commissions from the Kennedy Center, The Guthrie Theater, and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, among many others. Her plays are published by Dramatic Publishing, Heinemann, PlayScripts, Inc., Smith and Kraus, and Oberon Books. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and holds an MFA in Playwriting from The UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television where she was a Graduate Opportunity Fellow. Christina is an Affiliated Writer at the Playwrights' Center where she is a member of its Advisory Council. She is a member of the WGAWest, The Dramatists Guild of America, The Kilroys, and the Playwrights Union. American Theatre magazine named her one the top 20 most-produced playwrights of the 2018-19 season. She was a Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Pillsbury House Theatre. She is currently a Supervising Producer for the Emmy Award winning series Westworld starring Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, Aaron Paul, Ed Harris, and Tessa Thompson for HBO.

A performer and composer, Gary Rue has been playing music for audiences throughout the western hemisphere since the mid-’60s, beginning with various town halls in the upper Midwest and graduating to East Coast “tent” tours that included the Big Apple (Carnegie Hall as music director and duet partner for Gene Pitney) and on to far-flung points in Canada and the Caribbean. Early along the way, Rue began writing music of his own and was rewarded with some of his songs being recorded by (among others) Nick Lowe and Helen Reddy, as well as many prominent regional artists. He is the author of nearly 80 scores for music theatre, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales, which toured the U.S. and China with Dallas Children’s Theater. Rue is also a 2010 Minnesota Music Hall of Fame inductee and an active touring musician and educator.

Originally produced by Steppingstone Theater in 2007