The Courtroom: Performance and Conversation

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In 2004, an immigrant from the Philippines who was married to a U.S. citizen came to this country on a K-3 visa (a.k.a. fiancée visa). After inadvertently registering to vote at the DMV in Chicago, receiving a voter registration card in the mail and voting, her removal proceedings were set in motion. It began in immigration court and her case was eventually heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. "The Courtroom" is a re-enactment of that deportation proceeding, performed verbatim from court transcripts. This riveting and timely drama about real-world events features text arranged from actual court transcripts by Waterwell co-founder and Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed and directed by Waterwell Artistic Director and Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans.

Please join us for a special presentation of "The Courtroom" at the New York City Bar Association. This performance will be followed by a Conversation about the legal pitfalls of the immigration process and the need for its reform, featuring Jeffrey S. Chase, former Immigration Judge, Victoria Neilson, the chair of the City Bar’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, Ravi Ragbir, community activist and immigrant rights advocate, Richard Hanus, the real life Immigration Lawyer depicted in "The Courtroom", and the Waterwell co-founder and Tony Award nominee Arian Moayed.

The cast will feature such notable actors as Kathleen Chalfant, Happy Anderson, Tony Award winner Ruthie Ann Miles, Michael Braun, Hanna Cheek, Michael Bryan French, Mick Hilgers, Linda Powell, and Kristin Villanueva.

This special FOLCS event, a co-production with both the City Bar and Waterwell, was made possible by the generous support of Sethi & Mazaheri LLC and The Law Firm of Moumita Rahman, PLLC.