“MONOLOGUE MISSION”

“Built on Immigrants, Settled for Disaster”

By Elliot Babilonia (he/him)

Read by J.D. Mollison

“America, The (not so) Great”

By Nicaulis Mercedes (she/her)

Read by Kyla Garcia

“The Haunted Files”

By Judy Tate & THE LATE Michael Slade

Dir. by Melissa Maxwell

•STARRING ANTU YACOB & STINA NIELSEN
•Producer & Sound Designer: Simone Barros
•Videographer, Audio Engineer & Editor: Zachary Betonte
•TECHNICAL PRODUCER: YOUNG PARK
In 1904, a young black infant named Hazel is left on a doorstep. She is taken in by a family from whom she later runs away. Thus begins an odyssey of arrests, institutionalization, and medical intervention — all in an effort to cure her of “immorality.” Characters are real people from the files of the Eugenics Records Office in Cold Spring Harbor.

Post-Show Conversation: “Good Genes” and America’s Quest for Racial Purity” with Jack Tchen (he/him) and Leora Fuller (she/her) the original curators of The Haunted Files exhibition, in conversation with Judy Tate, Producing Artistic Director of the American Slavery Project