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Written & Directed by: Guy Mendilow & Regie Gibson
Script by: Regie Gibson, Guy Mendilow, Alison James
Music composed & arranged by Guy Mendilow & Chris Baum

Performed by:  
Regie Gibson (Host/narrator)
Guy Mendilow (Host/narrator; piano, voice, guitar)
Chris Baum (violin)
Courtney Swain (Voice, Keyboard, Bass)

Runtime: 85 minutes with optional post-performance conversation

Configuration:

Quartet

Touring Footprint:

Different Ships, Same Boat is deliberately created to have a small touring footprint to enable it to serve audiences and stages of many sizes, from performing arts centers to civic halls, museums, communities of faith and educational campuses.

About Different Ships, Same Boat

Different Ships, Same Boat is an interactive, multidisciplinary performance combining powerful spoken word, music and song to explore the multifaceted ways Americans risk, live, love and laugh. Unfolding through a series of chapters — each curating real world stories — literary performer Regie Gibson and composer/storycatcher Guy Mendilow guide audiences with podcast-like narration, at turns humorous, poignant or poetic, over an evocative musical score. With stories from small towns, cities and ports of entry, along with music spanning lyrical American Blues and songs from older homes from which today’s Americans came (e.g. Ottoman Jews from present-day Greece and Hungary), Different Ships, Same Boat offers a stirring exploration of the joys, tensions and complexities of who we are and who we wish to be.

As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Different Ships, Same Boat invites audiences to celebrate not only America but Americans. This is for those craving a powerful artistic performance of captivating music and stories — a moving, finely-crafted, anthology that connects audiences to American histories, perspectives, and experiences both familiar and different from their own.

Interesting Facts

• Different Ships, Same Boat offers stirring experiences of stories of some of the people who make America what it is — including those that often fly under the radar of history books, from Chinese Americans at Angel Island to Ottoman Jewish immigrants.  The show is performed by a world-class quartet of multiethnic, multiracial Americans.

• Different Ships, Same Boat is designed  to have a small touring footprint enabling it to serve audiences and stages of many sizes, from performing arts centers to civic halls, museums, communities of faith and educational campuses.

• Pair with Listening Labs — community strengthening forums in which moving stories, told through powerful spoken word, musical score and song, facilitate generous listening with fellow participants in conversations that are honest, intimate, and alive.
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