The Effect

Arts Alliance at Piven Theatre Workshop

Director: Henry Winkelman
Producer: Ghino Lee

Stage Manager: Ani Lawit
Assistant Directors: Julien Gray, Tai Duong
Assistant Stage Managers: Alice Chilton,
Lily Zebrauskas
Co-Dramaturgs: Abby Pierson, Ryan Samii
Assistant Dramaturg: Ella Sorkin
Intimacy Coordinator: Nora James Eikner
Fight Coordinator: Sydney MacGilvray

Scenic Design: Annie Kopp
Lighting Design: Kristopher Lambert
Props Design: Sophia Casa
Costume Design: Angella Ma
Projections Design: Will Boyle, Seth Black-Diamond
Sound Design: Tyler Shaver, Leo Garcia
Marketing Director/Photographer: Georgia Mann
Assistant Marketing Director: Naomi Ko
Fundraising Director: Roie Dahan
Assistant Producer: Nathanio Scott

Cast: Sarah Bock (Connie Hall), Elias Roberts (Tristan Frey), Lauren Nishi (Dr. Lorna James), Oliver Tam
(Dr. Toby Sealey)

The Effect is a clinical romance. Two young volunteers, Tristan and Connie, agree to take part in a clinical drug trial. Succumbing to the gravitational pull of attraction and love, however, Tristan and Connie manage to throw the trial off-course, much to the frustration of the clinicians involved. This funny, moving, and perhaps surprisingly human play explores questions of sanity, neurology, and the limits of medicine, alongside ideas of fate, loyalty, and the inevitability of physical attraction.