by Nikki Brake-Sillá
Pastor Rachel Johnson – Kimberly S Fairbanks (she/her)
Isaiah Johnson – SJ Hannah (he/him)
Eve Jardin – Jihan Haddad (she/her)
Stage Directions – Cloteal Horne (she/her)
Written by Nikki Brake-Sillá (she/her)
Directed by Lori Elizabeth Parquet (she/her)
Musical Direction by Gordon Chambers (he/him)
Stage Management by Caroline Ragland (she/they)
Director of Artistic Sign Language by Alexandria Wailes (she/her)
Alto – Juanita Guinyard (she/her)
Soprano – Sheherazade Holman (she/her)
Tenor – Julian Summers (he/him)
Tenor – Lennox VanCooten (he/him)
Actors + Stage Managers members of Actors' Equity Association
Director member of Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
About the Play
ReWombed takes place over the course of multiple office visits, between Pastor Rachel Johnson and Dr. Eve Jardín, Maternal Fetal Medicine. Eve has a crisis of conscience, after renouncing her faith years before, and wonders if the recent death of a patient is a sign from God. As their bond strengthens, Eve challenges Rachel’s participation in a trial whose selection process, coupled with the biological harm of immunosuppression drugs, cervical biopsies, and numerous abdominal surgeries, have made it impossible for her to uphold her vow to do no harm. When the selection criteria are built on qualifications that exclude Black and Brown women, what happens when a physician, on the cusp of a spiritual reawakening, begins to distrust science? In a world where nothing is believed until it can be replicated, when did science lose its faith?
This event is made possible from the support of the Bechdel Project and The Map Fund. Originally commissioned and developed by Ensemble Studio Theatre / Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project.