Anatomy of a Suicide
by Alice Birch
Directed by Alex MalloryPlaying August 12 - 30
Wednesdays - Saturdays at 7: 30PM
Sundays at 3: 30PM
at Redtwist Theatre
1044 W Bryn Mawr Ave
Chicago, IL 60660
Anatomy of a Suicide follows three generations of women fighting against the current of mental illness and inter-generational trauma across three simultaneous timelines. Featuring an ensemble of ten actors playing 26 characters, Alice Birch’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play draws the audience into a whirlpool of past, present, and future, and the vestiges they leave behind.
Please note: Anatomy of a Suicide contains themes of suicide, substance abuse, and depression. If you or a loved one are experiencing a mental health or substance abuse crisis, 988 offers 24/7 judgment-free support for mental health, substance use, and more. Text, call, or chat 988.
More information on local warmline and therapeutic resources is available in show program material and at the theater.
If you are looking to support a loved one or get involved with mental health advocacy, we recommend NAMI, Hope for the Day, and Project Healthy Minds as a place to begin.
- Director/Co-Producer: Alex Mallory
- Co-Producer: Tatiana Pavela
- Stage Manager: Sofie Schmeltzer
- Assistant Stage Manager: Annabelle Lamb
- Rehearsal ASM & Assistant Producer: AJ Noon
- Production Manager: Dusty Brown
- Assistant Director: Marlee Feacher
- Intimacy Director: Toranika Washington
- Scenic & Lighting Design: Daphne Agosin
- Costume Design: Katherin 'Kat' Poon
- Sound Design: Gina Montalvo
- Props Design: Lolo Ramos
- Technical Director: Tom Daniel
- Costumes Pre-Production: Naomi Arroyo
- Stitcher: Mandy Marsili
- Poster Design: Andi Muriel
- Promotional Photography: Jeff Kurysz
- Carol: Tatiana Pavela
- Anna: Taigé Lauren
- Bonnie: Isabel Lee Roden
- John: Josh Razavi
- Jamie: Raúl Alonso
- Jo/Laura/Lola/Woman: Allyce C. Torres
- Dan/Dave/Nurse/Felix/Luke: Wisterman
- Emma/Karen/Adult Daisy/Esther/May/Diane: Jocelyn Maher
- Daisy/Young Anna/Child: Laila Malak
- Toby/Tim/Mark/Man: Faiz Siddique
- u/s Carol: Ellen Campbell
- u/s Anna: Taylor McWilliams-Woods
- u/s Bonnie: Ashley Leake
- u/s John: Chris Lysy
- u/s Jamie: Nathan Dale Short
- u/s Jo/Laura/Lola/Woman: Liliana Mastroianni
- u/s Dan/Dave/Nurse/Felix/Luke: Derek Ray Preston
- u/s Emma/Karen/Adult Daisy/Esther/May/Diane: Lori Navarrete
- u/s Daisy/Young Anna/Child: Mery Drilling-Coren
- u/s Toby/Tim/Mark/Man: Darius Stubbs
This production is independently funded through personal savings, a few generous individual donors, and a grant from Independent Productions Initiative. All donations directly go toward paying artists.
Click here to make a tax-deductible donation through The Metal Shop's fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.
ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE is presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Corp.
www.concordtheatricals.com
About JunkHeart 
JunkHeart is a new artistic collaboration between Alex Mallory and Tatiana Pavela. JunkHeart seeks to create bigger worlds for people to witness, so they have bigger worlds to exist within.
Junk because it describes how we often make theatre: recorded on voice memos, written on scçraps of paper, costumed from the back of our closets and thrift store finds. We collect salvaged wood from the landlord’s garage, borrow furniture from our own living rooms, and assemble a motley crew of people to come together because they can’t envision doing anything else
Heart because art should fracture something open to give people more space. We want our projects to expand audiences’ ideas of humanity and leave them feeling more, connecting more, envisioning more possibility. Can your heart be split open and be put back together slightly changed, with light pouring through the cracks?