This Is Our Youth

By Kenneth Lonergan

Directed by Moshe Henderson

HB Playwrights Theatre

2026

Producers: Trudy Steibl, Dean Pisani & Sandy Denison

Fight & Intimacy Direction: Sordelet Inc, Juanita Santafe Sabogal & Juan José Mojica

Set Designer: Patti Panyakaew

Costume Designer: Zen Tunsaringkran

Lighting Designer: Jade Magno Mcgovern

Sound Designer: Caroline Lucas

Hair & Makeup: Delilah Draper

Props Master: Iris Ferranti

Graphic Designer: Mike Hanley

Head Carpenter: Thomas Pellecier

Stage Manager: Camillah Khan

Assistant Stage Manager: Niveka Hobaichan

Set in 1982 Upper West Side apartment, the play explores enduring questions of identity, inheritance, resistance, and connection. Though rooted in a specific moment, the characters' struggles feel both distant and familiar.

The one-bedroom apartment feels lived in: a mattress on the floor, a boxy TV, stereos, scattered clothes, comic books, sports gear, childhood photos, and stacks of records. Using the existing wall flats in a black box theater, we transformed the stage into an Upper West Side apartment that evokes the spirit of the 1980s.

Photo Credits: Patti Panyakaew and Nate Didomizio

Design Concept Development