No Place Called Home | Kim Schultz

No Place Called Home.

A Solo Play Written and Performed by Kim Schultz
with Original Music by Amikaeyla Gaston
Directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde
Commissioned by Intersections International

While traveling to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to interview Iraqi refugees and hear their stories, actor and author Kim Schultz never expected to fall in love. She did. This is that story. A story of an American woman and an Iraqi man. A story of one refugee out of four million. A story -- that isn't supposed to be a love story.

“Over the course of Ms. Schultz's performance, the Iraqi refugee population of New York City increased virtually by something like 10%, as she brought stories of urban refugee life into the spare rehearsal room...Ms. Schultz transformed herself...” The New York Times

"Under Sarah Cameron Sunde's perceptive direction, Schultz gains our sympathies for a people who many people automatically suspect are our enemies. That alone is no small achievement." The Star Ledger

"How can one person summarize so much pain, pride, trauma, love and suffering like an Iraqi refugee while she is, in fact, not an Iraqi refugee herself? As a refugee myself, I gave up to the fact, that no one can hold the complexity of the crisis, it's so complicated and different. Yet I was wrong. In this event, I was captured from the first word until the end. It was brilliant." Ibrahim, Iraqi refugee

PRODUCTION HISTORY

Siena College. Albany, NY, March 11, 2019
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, June 5, 2018
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, March 7, 2018
Silk Road Rising, Chicago, IL, February 19-22, 2015
Prairie Talks, Rugby, ND April 21, 2013
Manchester University, Manchester IN, April 16, 2013
York College, Queens, NY April 26, 2012
Groton School, Groton, MA, April 3, 2012
Winona State University, Winona, MN, March 1, 2012
University of Minnesota, Morris, MN, February 24, 2012
Illuminated Metropolis Gallery, NYC, NY, January 19, 2012
Duke University, Durham, NC, January 8, 2012
John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. June 20, 2012
Ondarte, Akumal, Mexico, December 12, 2012
Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, MN, July 14-17, 2011
Indiana University, South Bend, IN October 20, 2011
Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY, October 18, 2011
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 14, 2011
Revolution Books, NY, NY, October 2, 2011
Holy Cross College, South Bend, IN, April 15, 2011
Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C., March 17, 2011
New York City Off-Broadway: 3LD Technology Center, The Cell, Mile Square Theatre: October 6-31, 2010

The play was developed with readings in NYC at The Lark Play Development Center, Alwan Center for the Arts and Intersections International, as well as a residency at Groton School in Groton, MA. The play was commissioned by Intersections International and produced in New York by Intersections International, Parlagreco Productions and Aaron Louis and The Three Legged Dog.

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