OUR DEAD DEAD
DRUG LORD
by ALEXIS SCHEER
OCTOBER 16 - NOVEMBER 9
DIRECTED BY KAITLIN PAIGE LONGORIA
OCTOBER 16 - NOVEMBER 9
- REGIONAL PREMIERE -
PERFORMANCES AT THE BASEMENT
(300 E. Broad St. Richmond, VA 23219)
High above Miami in a cluttered treehouse, four teenage girls are plotting something wild: a séance to summon Pablo Escobar. What starts as a game of guts and giggles spirals into a sharp, unpredictable clash of friendship, power, and dark imagination. Part occult ritual, part rollercoaster through the thrills and terrors of growing up.
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord is a wickedly funny, unsettling ride you won’t see coming.
Content Warning:
Our Dear Dead Drug Lord contains strong language, sexual content, depictions of drug use, and scenes of violence. The play also includes references to suicide, sexual assault, and other sensitive subject matter.
*New York TImes Critic’s Pick!*
“Highly entertaining – equally funny and scary – the play starts off as a hoot and winds up a primal scream. They’re throwing quite a seance at the McGinn/Cazale Theater.”
-Ben Brantley, The New York Times
MEET THE CAST
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Kylee Márquez-Downie
PIPE
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Mary Kalinowski
KIT
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MARYA BRICE
SQUEEZE
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EVA LINDER
ZOOM
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NATALIE TUBIA
PIPE & KIT U/S
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JADA PAUL
SQUEEZE U/S
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KYLIE METHENY
ZOOM U/S
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Featured Artists:
DJ Cummings Herdoiza & Fio LoPresti
MEET THE CREATIVE TEAM
Director – Kaitlin Paige Longoria
Scenic Designer - William Luther
Sound Designer - Joey Luck
Lighting Designer– Corrine Manderino
Costume Designer – Emily Andrew Mateos
Intimacy/Fight Choreographer - Kerrigan Sullivan
Technical Director – CHRIS FOOTE
Stage Manager - Megan Wave
*Four Stars!*
“Just when you think you know where the play is heading, there’s a disorienting coup de théâtre that leaves you shaken. Our Dear Dead Drug Lord isn’t for the faint of heart, but neither is coming of age.”
- Raven Snook, Time Out
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
ALEXIS SCHEER
Alexis Scheer’s breakout play was the off-Broadway hit Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (NYT Critics Pick, John Gassner Award; LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work; Kilroy’s List), and she made her Broadway debut adapting the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella. Other plays include ’Til Death (a 2ST commission), Laughs In Spanish (Kennedy Center’s Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award), and Christina (Roe Green Award; O’Neill Finalist). Her plays have been produced at theatres across the country, including Second Stage, WP Theater, Center Theatre Group, Denver Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Stages Houston, GableStage, Zoetic Stage, SpeakEasy Stage, Boston Playwrights Theatre and many more. Alexis is currently under commission by Manhattan Theatre Club and Miami New Drama and is writing the book for the stage adaptation of Jerry Herman’s Mrs. Santa Claus, premiering at Goodspeed Musicals in 2025. Television/Film: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (HBO Max), and projects developed with HBO Max/Salma Hayek’s Ventanarosa and Sony Pictures Animation/Netflix.
Alexis is a proud alum of New World School of the Arts and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. She was born and raised in Miami, FL in a Jewish-Colombian household. Alexis now resides in Boston, MA with her music conductor husband and mini-Aussie, Sagan.
