RIVEN

June 2025

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A site-specific docu-fiction play about waste pickers
Sure We Can

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Taking place at Sure We Can, a recycling center in Brooklyn, Riven invites you into a powerful journey. The play follows Alessandra and Melina, two women from the Global South working at a waste-picking cooperative—a place where recycled materials are sorted and people are rescued from neglect. Side by side, they share not only a lifetime of sorting the accumulated discards of a society that has failed them, but also a promise: to survive and to stay bound to each other. 

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Josanna Vaz as Melina | Dee Beasnael as Alessandra | Lucas Santana as Can Spirit | Ananda Barnes as Dance Spirit | Live Music by Juan Sebastian Monsalve | Guest Starring Mambembé | Directed and Written by Marina Zurita | Co-Directed and Movement Directed by Acadia Barrengos | Costume and Props Designed by Patricia Marjorie | Costumes assisted by Whitney Fabre | Lights Designed by Josh Martinez-Davis | Lights assisted by Maya Strauss | Video and Projections by Guilherme Pedra | Produced by Giorgia Valenti | Partner Produced by Sure We Can | Associate Produced by Group Dot Br and Covi Brannan | Executive Produced by Regina Maurício da Rocha | Stage Managed by Josephine D'Arcy and Erin Grey | Marketing by Luísa Galatti | Public Relations by Ron Lasko

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