PLAY SYNOPSIS

 

Shelter in Place by Alisha Adams, imagines what it takes for two Puerto Rican women to survive the fall of America. What happens when everything we take for granted disappears? When life pushes us to our limits, how long can we keep love and compassion alive?

 

PLAY HISTORY

 

Shelter in Place by Alisha Adams premiered in the 2015 FringeArts Festival in partnership with Norris Square Neighborhood Project and Power Street Theatre Company. Shelter in Place an immersive, site-specific experience that engages youth and sparks community dialogue. Followed by a staged reading at Rutgers University New Brunswick.

 

 

PLAYWRIGHT BIOGRAPHY 

 

Alisha Adams (playwright) began writing with the LA-based Padua Playwrights. Her plays include The Men From The Girls (The Armory, Portland Center Stage), MICROMEGAS and Accidents of the Bread (The Department of Safety), Go Yeri Ston/Will Hear a Stone (MFA Playfest Temple University), Unring a Bell (Finalist, 2016 Raw Stages New Works Festival), and Other Tongues (High Desert Test Sites, Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival). Alisha was an inaugural Fellow at the Media Institute for Social Change (Portland, OR), a 2012-13 Emerging Artist in Residence at Plays and Players Theater, and was recently awarded the Douglas Byers Memorial Fellowship from Signal Fire Arts. She is a member of The Foundry Playwrights Lab and a teaching artist working in schools and community organizations throughout Philadelphia.