No One Is Forgotten

by winter miller

Lali and Beng are held captive.
No one knows where they’ve been taken or if they’re alive.
Or, maybe their story has been broadcast to the world?
A story about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live for someone else.

Lali and Beng are held captive.
No one knows where they’ve been taken or if they’re alive.
Or, maybe their story has been broadcast to the world?
A story about intimacy, surrender, and the will to live for someone else.

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No One Is Forgotten

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  • Gina Femia: No One Is Forgotten by winter miller
    “

    This play should be programmed in every season across the world. A political story through a deeply human lens, this is our Now.

    This play should be programmed in every season across the world. A political story through a deeply human lens, this is our Now.

    ”
  • Sarah Caroline Billings: No One Is Forgotten by winter miller
    “

    Absolutely stunning. This play shines a low-watt industrial light into the dirty corners of the soul. I was profoundly moved.
    I'm shocked it hasn't been produced more and greatly admire Winter Miller for mounting it herself at Rattlestick.

    Absolutely stunning. This play shines a low-watt industrial light into the dirty corners of the soul. I was profoundly moved.
    I'm shocked it hasn't been produced more and greatly admire Winter Miller for mounting it herself at Rattlestick.

    ”
  • Premiere Stages at Kean University: No One Is Forgotten by winter miller
    “

    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize “No One Is Forgotten” by Winter Miller as a semifinalist for the 2019 Premiere Play Festival. “No One Is Forgotten” rose through a competitive selection process conducted by Premiere staff and a panel of outside theatre professionals to become one of 23 semifinalists out of 659 submissions. The panel was particularly impressed by its extraordinarily detailed characterization and the profound sense of intimacy it engenders—both between Lali and Beng and between the characters and the...

    Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize “No One Is Forgotten” by Winter Miller as a semifinalist for the 2019 Premiere Play Festival. “No One Is Forgotten” rose through a competitive selection process conducted by Premiere staff and a panel of outside theatre professionals to become one of 23 semifinalists out of 659 submissions. The panel was particularly impressed by its extraordinarily detailed characterization and the profound sense of intimacy it engenders—both between Lali and Beng and between the characters and the audience. Our congratulations and thanks to Winter.

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Character Information

  • Lali
    Malnourished, indomitable, occasionally tender, once very athletic

    THIS PLAY IS INTENDED FOR TWO WOMEN BUT OTHER CASTING MAY BE GRANTED BY REQUEST, PLEASE INQUIRE.
    30s - 60s
    African / African American / Black,
    Mixed,
    Afro - Caribbean
    Any (but probably Female)
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      30s,
      40s,
      50s,
      60s
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Black, African, Caribbean, or African American
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Female
  • Beng
    Malnourished, indomitable, occasionally tender, once very athletic, a thinker and a talker, definitively lesbian

    THIS PLAY IS INTENDED FOR TWO WOMEN BUT OTHER CASTING CHOICES MAY BE GRANTED BY REQUEST, PLEASE INQUIRE.
    30s - 60s
    Any
    Female
    Can be played by:
    • Actor Age
      20s,
      30s,
      40s,
      50s,
      60s,
      70s+
    • Actor Race/Ethnic Identity
      Indigenous, First Nation, or Native American,
      Latinx/o/a or Hispanic,
      White
    • Actor Gender Identity
      Female

Development History

  • Reading, Unicorn Theater, 2018
  • Reading, Labyrinth Theater : Barn Series, 2018
  • Workshop, Salt Lake Acting Company, 2017
  • Reading, National New Play Network Presentation, 2017
  • Residency, The Lark Winter Retreat, 2016
  • Reading, New York Stage and Film, 2016

Production History

  • Professional, New York Premiere, Rattlestick Theater , 2019

Awards

  • The List
    Kilroys
    Honorable Mention
    2016