Frontières Sans Frontiéres
Written by Phillip Howze
Directed by Dustin Wills
Presented by The Bushwick Starr
Produced by Alyssa Simmons
Produced by Sally Shen
Produced by Libby Peterson
Scenic Design by Mariana Sanchez-Hernandez
Lighting Design by Masha Tsimring
Costume Design by Seth Bodie
Sound Design by Pornchanok Kanchanabanca
Technical Direction by Jen Medina Grey
Stage Managed by Alyssa Howard
Asst. Stage Management by Nick Auer
Assistant Direction by Alex Tobey
TOP TEN BEST THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS 2017 (#7)
- New York Magazine
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Featuring 
Ceci Fernandez
Rachel Leslie
Emma Ramos
Mirirai Sithole
Sathya Sridharan
Tony Vo
Reggie White
​Mitchell Winter
At the bombed-out corner of a country that feels both foreign and familiar, three orphaned, stateless youth have built a simple life out of recreation and mischief-making. Their way of life is rocked as a parade of immodest strangers slowly invade their homestead offering gifts of knowledge, medicine, art and commerce. As long-held values are upended, and the lure of escape blurs their beliefs, life and landscape mutate into a grotesquery of charity that threaten their relationships and humanity.

Production Photos
Photography by Joey Moro

Press

TIME OUT NEW YORK: 4 STARS, Critic's Pick. "Howze's exciting piece is actually a savage burlesque, a clear-eyed bouffon treatment of war. [...] Dustin Wills directs an incredible cast. Leslie, Winter and Fernandez are crackerjack commedia performers, and Ramos should win a prize for this. The set by Mariana Sanchez Hernandez keeps springing little surprises out of its seemingly inert trash; I found myself sometimes laughing in sheer delight at it." - Helen Shaw

NEW YORK TIMES: "A brightly colored comic fantasia on cultural imperialism. [...] Directed by Dustin Wills at the Bushwick Starr, Mr. Howze’s intelligent, unruly and intermittently wonderful play is grounded in experience. [...] In “Frontières,” he is grappling with the impact of rich nations on poor ones, and the pervasive presumption that wealth equals cultural superiority. [...] There is much beauty in this abundance, and something deeply unsettling, too." - Laura Collins-Hughes

TDF STAGES: "In Phillip Howze's hilarious, heart-wrenching, and sometimes scabrous Frontiéres Sans Frontières, playing through Mar 25 at the Bushwick Starr, three stateless kids take center stage." - Eliza Bent

​WHAT SHOULD WE DO.COM: "The ever-evolving Bushwick Starr is now seen as one of the most reliable producers of theater in the five boroughs, and Frontiéres director Dustin Wills is one of downtown’s busiest and brightest emerging talents. It’s no wonder tickets are sold out this weekend but we can help you snag seats for the final performances next weekend! " - Patty Onderko