Haunted
By Tara Moses
Directed by Nailah Unole didanas’ea Harper-Malveaux
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
In partnership with Lake Erie Native American Council
March 05, 2026 - March 22, 2026
James Levin Theatre
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Ash and Aaron have been dead for twenty years, and the Indigenous siblings pass their time dancing to Britney Spears, haunting the families that try to move into their house, and wondering if they’ll ever be free from the shackles of racist stereotypes. As the cycle begins once more, the siblings ask: will they ever make it to the Spirit World? An Indigenous horror comedy with the coolest Y2K hits, Tara Moses’ Haunted forces us to confront the very land we walk on and our relationship (or lack thereof) with Native communities today.
Content Disclosure: This production includes explicit language and sequences of flashing lights.
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The James Levin Theatre is ADA-compliant featuring a patron elevator and an all-gender, wheelchair accessible restroom.
Ensemble Members:
Rachel Gold, Rob Grant III, Trevor McChristian*, Lionel Morales, Jonathon Morgan, Hillary Wheelock
*Actor appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
The Creative Production Team Includes:
Producer: Raymond Bobgan
Line Producer: Paige Conway
Stage Manager: Yesenia Real
Scenic Designer: Laura Carlson Tarantowski
Lighting Designer: Emma Deane
Sound Designer: Geoffrey Short
Costume Designer: Desiree Monique
Technical Director: Tom West
Assistant Director/Assistant Stage Manager: Alexandrea Decatur-Benally
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Tara Moses is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, director, award-winning playwright, and co-founder of Groundwater Arts. She is honored to be the first Native playwright to receive a Rolling World Premiere from the National New Play Network and aims to use her work as a catalyst for other Native artists, so that she will not be the last. She is the former Artistic Director in Residence at Red Eagle Soaring, a Cultural Capital Fellow with First Peoples Fund, Fellow with the Intercultural Leadership Institute, member of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center, recipient of the Thomas C. Fichandler Award, Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and Dramatists Guild member. She is from the Muscogee Creek Reservation and holds an MFA in Directing from Brown/Trinity. www.taramoses.com
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Nailah Unole didanas’ea Harper-Malveaux (she/her) is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She serves as the Leader of Artistic Curation and Producing at Crowded Fire, which is a member of the Mellon-funded “Future of the American Theater” cohort. Directing highlights include: the West Coast premiere of The Last of the Love Letters by Ngozi Anyanwu and Edit Annie by Mary Glen Fredrick (co-directed with Leigh Rondon-Davis), the world premiere of Getting There by Dipika Guha, and The Light by Loy A. Webb. She is passionate about experimenting with and implementing new models of collaboration in order to create a more sustainable and abundant theatre ecology. Through the Artistic Caucus and the HIVE Project, she was an integral part of the construction of two inter-theater, multi-year programs designed to systematically change their respective practices in audience engagement and new work curation. She has worked as a freelance artist at Woolly Mammoth, Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Z Space, and American Conservatory Theater. She received her BA in American Studies and Theatre Studies from Yale University.
NATIONAL NEW PLAY NETWORK ROLLING WORLD PREMIERE
In partnership with the National New Play Network (NNPN), Haunted is produced at Cleveland Public Theatre as part of a NNPN Rolling World Premiere. For more information, please visit www.nnpn.org.
NNPN is an alliance of professional theatres that collaborate in innovative ways to develop, produce, and extend the life of new plays. NNPN’s Rolling World Premiere Program supports three or more theatres that choose to mount the same new play within a 12-month period, allowing the playwright to develop a new work with multiple creative teams in multiple communities. The playwright is part of the process, working on the script and making adjustments based on what is learned from each production. Click here for more information.