How to Listen: A recording of this radio play will be free and available to the public online from May 1–10. For access to the recording, please register at tdps.events/snowflakes Support TDPS: Please consider making a gift to TDPS for the amount you might pay for a ticket. Your gift will help us produce future student work and keep ticket prices low when we are able to safely open our theater doors. Visit give.berkeley.edu/tdps About the Play Stories and creative energy can be a balm to the soul in this moment, and with that spirit director Mina Morita and our resilient company of students have transformed Dustin Chinn's cuttingly smart satire from that of a theater production into an online radio play. Delivered with a medium shaped in the early 20th century and captured in our 21st century during this unprecedented pandemic, this play takes us to 23rd-Century Nueva New York. In the city, the remaining white American population is protected by the federal government. Two of the last are brought to the Museum of Natural History as a living exhibit in the Hall of Caucasian Peoples, only to be freed by a sympathetic gift shop employee. Is society ready for their return? Inspired by the Hall of Asian Peoples at the American Museum of Natural History and articles bemoaning the "dwindling majority" of white Americans, Chinn's play cleverly explores American conceptions of race and ethnicity, representation, and the precariousness of social status. About the Playwright Dustin H. Chinn is a Seattle native whose plays include the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Commission Herschel: Portrait of a Killer, Let’s Ninja Science Ranger Team Get! and Colonialism Is Terrible, But Pho Is Delicious. He’s developed work with the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Ars Nova Play Group, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep Summer Residency Lab, A.C.T.’s New Strands Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the University of Washington via a Mellon Creative Fellowship, SPACE on Ryder Farm, UMass at Amherst New Play Lab and Vampire Cowboys. Some of his best friends are white. About the Director Mina Morita is the Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater, a critically acclaimed and vital company specializing in adventurous new play production in San Francisco. She is dedicated to the development of a contemporary theatre canon that reflects the diverse world in which we live. Previously, she served as the Artistic Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was part of the originating team for its Ground Floor Program, which is a center for the creation and development of new work.