Catch me in The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh at Studio Theatre in D.C., now extended due to popular demand till November 3!
Left to right: Danilo Gambini, Francesca Fernandez, Jeena Yi, and Lloyd Suh. Photo Credit: Sarah J.
THE HEART SELLERS
By Lloyd Suh
Directed by Danilo Gambini
September 24-November 3, 2025
Featuring:
Luna | Francesca Fernandez
Jane | Jeena Yi
Production Team:
Set Designer | Marcelo Martínez García
Costume Designer | Helen Q. Huang
Lighting Designer | Minjoo Kim
Sound Designer | Liam Bellman-Sharpe
Dialect Coach | Joy Lanceta Coronel
Intimacy and Fight Consultant | Jenny Male
Dramaturg | Adrien-Alice Hansel
Production Stage Managers | Anthony O. Bullock & Ebony Gennes
Casting | Katja Zarolinski, CSA
📸DJ Corey Photography
About the Show:
Luna, an outgoing immigrant from the Philippines, and the more cautious Jane, recently arrived from South Korea, meet in a near-empty grocery store on Thanksgiving Day, 1973. Their husbands are working. Alone in a country they don’t know, they join forces to celebrate Thanksgiving together. Over wine and a stubbornly frozen turkey, these new Americans and even newer friends discuss Soul Train and Jane Fonda, chart the shape of their homesickness, and consider the cost of pursuing an American dream.
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Reviews:
"Luna’s [Francesca Fernandez] monologue about losing a part of herself between borders — a dilemma that’s shaped my family in many ways — struck me with aching clarity." - The Washington Post
"The two-women play opens with Luna, Francesca Fernandez, a young Filipina, excitedly inviting Jane, Jeena Yi, a young Korean, into her apartment on Thanksgiving Day, 1973. Both are really talented actors....You start laughing right away as Luna, who is garrulous and goofy, talks a mile a minute." - The Georgetown Dish
"...features two splendid actresses [Francesca Fernandez and Jeena Yi] who pirouette flawlessly throughout this one-act drama, fleshing out their characters with heartwarming hilarity and depth." - DC Theater Arts