Obie-winning theatre company Waterwell is joining with Symphony Space to\u00a0present\u00a0Stories From the City of Immigrants\u00a0at Symphony Space April 20, an evening\u00a0celebrating the vital role immigrants play in New York City’s past, present, and future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Arian Moayed<\/a> will host the event, which will feature monologues and stories\u00a0curated by Obie-winning director and Waterwell Artistic Director\u00a0Lee Sunday Evans (Oratorio for Living Things, The Ford\/Hill Project) and oral historian\u00a0Liza Zapol.\u00a0<\/p>\n The lineup of performers is set to\u00a0include host\u00a0Moayed, Roberta Colindrez<\/a> (A League of Their Own), Micaela Diamond<\/a> (Parade), Tony winner\u00a0Jayne Houdyshell<\/a> (Only Murders in the Building), Simu Liu<\/a> (Oh, Mary!;\u00a0Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Sunita Mani (GLOW), Justin H. Min<\/a> (The Umbrella Academy), Sepideh Moafi (The Pitt), Laith Nakli (Ramy), Tramell Tillman<\/a> (Severance), and\u00a0Pej Vahdat (The Old Man). The women-led samba reggae drumline marching band FogoAzul will provide\u00a0live music throughout the evening.<\/p>\n Zapol sourced the evening\u2019s stories from books like Hamilton Holt\u2019s The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves (1906) and Saundra Amrhein\u2019s Green Card Stories (2011), as well as\u00a0oral history collections from the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project, Center for Brooklyn History\u2019s Muslims in Brooklyn project, the Irish in New York Oral History Project at Queens College, the Washington Heights Oral History Collection at New York Public Library, the New Sanctuary Coalition Testimony Project, the Queens Memory Project, and We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices from the Brooklyn College Listening Project.<\/p>\n Stories From the City of Immigrants\u00a0will be recorded for national broadcast on Symphony Space\u2019s syndicated Selected Shorts radio show and podcast.<\/p>\n