The Ford / Hill Project
at the brooklyn academy of music
bam fisher
September 8-20, 2026
PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS:
THE CLUB @ LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATER
AS PART OF UNDER THE RADAR
January 7-11, 2026
WOOLLY MAMMOTH &
THE PUBLIC THEATER
October 7-20, 2024
CREATED BY :
Elizabeth Marvel and Lee Sunday Evans
DESCRIPTION
“The Ford/Hill Project performs one of theater’s most noble and necessary functions: to shine a light on character itself, to attune the populace to how a person’s acts betoken who they are, and to prompt the polis to pay attention.” - DC Theater Arts
30 years apart, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford provoked a reckoning about who is given the power to shape the future of our country by telling the story of one of the most private moments of their lives in one of the most public settings imaginable.
With an ensemble of four actors speaking from the verbatim transcripts of these pivotal hearings, these two women’s stories can be seen side by side in a new light in Waterwell’s illuminating new production which we are honored to bring to two of the country's most prestigious theaters in the weeks leading up to the consequential 2024 election.
If you are interested in bringing this project to your theater, organization or community, write to us at: info@waterwell.org
VIDEO
2026 Production at la MaMA
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Cast: Josh Hamilton, Jon Michael Hill, Amber Iman, Beth Marvel
Director & Co-Creator: Lee Sunday Evans
Co-Creator: Elizabeth Marvel
Co-Sound Designer & Audio Editor: Jeffrey Salerno
Co-Sound Designer: Mikhail Fiksel
Sound Associate: Marion Ayers
Lighting Designer: Oona Curley
Props Designer: Faye Armon-Troncoso
Costume Coordinator: Amanda Roberge
Production Stage Manager: Katie Young
Assistant Stage Manager: Mia Qin
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FEATURES:
Vogue: The Theatermakers Turning Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimonies Into Dialogue (or read it here)
New York Times: For Theater in January, the Under the Radar Festival Reigns Supreme (or read it here)
REVIEWS:Theatermania: Under the Radar Review: The Ford/Hill Project
Exeunt: The Ford/Hill Project at La MaMa
The Recs: Courage On Display in ‘The Ford/Hill Project’
Eye on the Arts: Under the Radar Challenges the Status Quo
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As part of each performance, there will be a public conversation with thought leaders directly following the play - check out the incredible line-up of brilliant leaders.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7 AT 7:30 P.M. - Restorative Justice
Erika Sasson, Attorney & Restorative Justice Practitioner
Saloni Sethi, Commissioner, NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8 AT 7:30 P.M. - Power & Protections at the State Level
Dipal Shah, Executive Director, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Action Fund
Bobby Hodgson, Acting Deputy Legal Director, New York Civil Liberties Union
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 AT 4 P.M. - Trauma-Informed Care
Marissa Gavami, Founder, Healing TREE
Dr. Susan Pinco, LCSW
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 AT 7:30 P.M. - Power: Culture and the Law
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Scholar, Writer, Activist, and Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia
Ashley Staggers, Sex and Gender Based Violence Advocate and Miss Manhattan 2026
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 AT 6 P.M. - The ERA Project
Ting Ting Cheng, Director, The ERA Project, NYU Law
Shaina Taub, Tony Award-winning Author of Suffs
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 AT 1 P.M. - Reproductive Health Access
Dana Sussman, Senior Vice President, Pregnancy Justice
Scarlett Macías, Director of Policy and External Affairs, NYC Bureau of Maternal, Infant, & Reproductive Health
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 AT 4 P.M. - Restorative Justice
Charlene Allen, Restorative Justice Practitioner & Author
Devin Deane, Transformative Initiatives at The RISE Project
Purvi Shah, Anti-Violence Advocate, Author & Artist
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Anonymous
The Women & Men of Hollywood: Linda Powell, Elizabeth Marvel, Morena Baccarin, Ronald Guttman, Sarah Snook, Thomas Sadoski & Amanda Seyfried, Peter Friedman, and Carrie Preston
2024 Production at Woolly Mammoth & The Public
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Cast: Dylan Baker, Eric Berryman, Chris Coffey, Amber Iman, Beth Marvel
Director & Co-Creator: Lee Sunday Evans
Associate Director & Creative Line Producer: Maya Davis
Co-Creator: Elizabeth Marvel
Co-Sound Designer & Audio Editor: Jeffrey Salerno
Co-Sound Designer: Mikhail Fiksel
Lighting Designer: Oona Curley
Props Designer: Faye Armon-Troncoso
Costume Coordinator: Amanda Roberge
Production Stage Manager: Katie Young
Assistant Stage Manager: Kate Wellhofer
Casting Consultants: Rori Bergman & Karlee Fomalont
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FEATURES:
Washington Post: Christine Blasey Ford & Anita Hill are Characters in a New Play (Or read it here)
New York Times: Political Theater: 7 Shows that Wrestle with Political Issues (Or read it here)
American Theatre: Elizabeth Marvel, Hearing the Voices of America
WNBC New York Live: Elizabeth Marvel & Amber Iman Talk ‘The Ford/Hill Project’
Scene Magazine: Body of Power: Making ‘The Ford / Hill Project’ by Lee Sunday Evans
REVIEWS:DC Theater Arts: Gripping ‘Ford/Hill Project’ at Woolly Mammoth speaks truth to male power
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As part of each performance, there will be a public conversation with thought leaders directly following the play - check out the incredible line-up of brilliant leaders.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 AT 7 P.M.
Renee Bracey Sherman, Founder, We Testify and Co-Author of Liberating Abortion
Adrianne Wright, Founder and CEO of ROSIE and Founder of I Will Not Be Quiet
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17 AT 7 P.M.
Roxane Gay, writer
Ifeoma Ike, author, artist, and attorney, NYU McSilver Institute Fellow, Founder, Pink Cornrows
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 7 P.M.
Saloni Sethi, Acting Commissioner NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence
Alvaro Pinzon, MSW - Director of Respect & Responsibility Program at Rising Ground
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 AT 7 P.M.
Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Alexandra Brodsky, civil rights attorney at Public Justice and Author of Sexual Justice
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 2 P.M.
Chelsea Williams-Diggs, Executive Director, New York Abortion Access Fund
Jenna Lauter, Policy Counsel, New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)
Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen, Founder and CEO at ClutchKit, Senior Advisor at Banyan Global
Dana Sussman, Senior Vice President, Pregnancy Justice
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 AT 5 P.M.
Leah Goodridge, Award-winning attorney and writer
Andrea Ambam, Multihyphenate Storyteller, Truthteller, & Director of Programming at Level Forward
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This iteration of the production was generously funded by The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music, and Theater by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts.
Other Supporters Include:
Burnt Umber Productions, Mariska Hargitay, Angelina Fiordellisi, Taylor Kinney, Damon Lindelof, Sharman Altschuler, Lesli Linka Glatter, and Pack Willimon
GALLERY
Photos by Emilio Madrid, Cameron Whitman, and Marina Levitskaya “Brilliant and brazen.”
— DC Theater Arts
ACTOR BIOS
ELIZABETH MARVEL (Actor & Co-Creator) has won four Obie Awards for her Off-Broadway work, most notably for the title role in Ivo Van Hove’s 2004 production of Hedda Gabler. Most recently, she starred in the Off-Broadway production of Phillip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater. Of her numerous Broadway roles, she is best known for her portrayal of Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities, a role which she originated off-Broadway. Marvel recently starred in the Apple TV+ limited series HBO Max limited series “Presumed Innocent”, “Love and Death” at HBO Max and the Hulu limited series, “The Dropout”. Her numerous television credits include Peacock’s “Mrs. Davis”, Hulu’s “Helstrom”, Showtime’s “Homeland”, Netflix’s “House of Cards”. She can most recently be seen in Blitz Bazawule’s adaptation of “The Color Purple” for Warner Bros. Upcoming, she will be seen alongside Viola Davis in the Amazon Prime Video action-thriller film, “G20”. Marvel is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
AMBER IMAN (Actor) most recently starred as Rafaela in Lempicka on Broadway for which she was nominated for both a TONY award and Drama League award. She made her Broadway debut as Nina Simone in Soul Doctor, earning a Clive Barnes Award nomination. Additional credits include George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along and the first National Tour of Hamilton. Recent highlights include Goddess (Berkeley Rep) and Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical (A.C.T.). TV/Film work includes High Maintenance (HBO) and her award-winning short film Steve. Her second short film, Blackberry Winter, wrapped production in April. Amber co-founded Broadway Advocacy Coalition and Black Women on Broadway, earning a Tony Award in 2021 for her BAC work. Listen to “An Evening with Amber Iman” on Audible! @amberiman_ amberiman.com
JON MICHAEL HILL (Actor) is a series regular in the upcoming Apple TV comedy thriller series MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED along with Tatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, and Jessy Hodges. Before that, Jon was one of the leads in the David E. Kelley limited series A MAN IN FULL starring Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane. In theater, last season Jon was nominated for a Tony Award for his leading performance in critical hit play PURPOSE. The play was written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Phylicia Rashad and won the Tony Award for “Best Play,” along with the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Jon was also nominated for a Tony Award for his Broadway debut in SUPERIOR DONUTS. Jon is on the Board of Trustees of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and has been an ensemble member since 2007.
JOSH HAMILTON (Actor)’s theater credits include the original productions of Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery and Medieval Play. The Coast of Utopia (LTC), The Bridge Project (Bam/Old Vic), The Antipodes (Signature), HurlyBurly, Things We Want, and Lie of the Mind (New Group), Three Sisters and Cherry Orchard (CSC) The Real Thing (Roundabout), Proof (Broadway), Scene Partners (Vineyard), Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talkhouse (National UK), and starting in Feb- Shawn’s new play What We Did Before Our Moth Days (Greenwich House) directed by Andre Gregory. Film/TV includes Jay Kelly, The Long Walk, Reality, Maestro, The Walking Dead, Eighth Grade, Blaze, 13 Reasons Why, Ray Donovan, The Last Thing He Told Me, Manchester by the Sea, Louie, The House of Yes, Kicking and Screaming, and Alive. Upcoming: Something Very Bad is Going to Happen (Netflix), Mayday (Apple), and The Five Star Weekend (Peacock).
ERIC BERRYMAN (Actor) is a Baltimore-born,
Brooklyn-based actor who is involved in work he
believes his great-grandmother would dig. Theater: Get
Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, The B-Side:
“Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons” (Wooster
Group, Drama Desk nomination); Pulitzer winner
Primary Trust, Toni Stone (Roundabout); Detroit Red
(ArtsEmerson); Scene Partners (Vineyard); Moby Dick,
A Musical Reckoning (A.R.T.); Steel Hammer (SITI
Company). TV/Film: “Atlanta;” “Godfather of Harlem;”
“Ramy;” “Bonding;” Marriage Story; “Evil;” “Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel;” Empathy, Inc.; Motherless Brooklyn.
Training: Carnegie Mellon University.
DYLAN BAKER (Actor) Film: “Happiness”, “Dream
Scenario”, “Miss Sloane”, “Selma”, “Anchorman
2”, “The Humbling”, “23 Blast” (directorial debut),
“Revolutionary Road”, “Requiem for a Dream”, “Laroy,
Texas”. TV: “Hunters,”, “Inside Man,”, “Homeland,”,
“Little Women,”, “Damages,”, “The Americans,”, “The
Good Wife” (three Emmy nominations), “The Good
Fight,”, “Ugly Betty.”. Broadway: La Bête (Tony and
Drama Desk nominations), Eastern Standard (Theater
World Award), Mauritius, November, The Audience, The
Front Page, and God of Carnage. Theater: Not About
Heroes (Obie Award), Sea of Tranquility, Homebody/
Kabul, Medea.
CHRIS COFFEY (Actor) has originated roles on & off-Broadway and regionally in numerous world premieres; favorites include Bekah Brunstetter’s “Public Servant” on Theater Row, NYC, Eric Simonson’s “Bronx Bombers” (Circle in the Square and Primary Stages), Quiara Alegría Hudes’s “Water by the Spoonful” (Second Stage), Neil LaBute’s “Happy Hour” (LaMama), Gina Gionfriddo’s “Can You Forgive Her?” (Huntington), both Richard Nelson’s “Frank’s Home”, directed by Robert Falls (Playwrights Horizons, Goodman), and “How Shakespeare Won the West” (Huntington), and with Arthur Miller on his penultimate play, “Resurrection Blues” (Old Globe). Also: Actors Theatre of Louisville (R&J 2020), Alley, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Rep, Williamstown, Dorset, Mint, many others. Selected Film & TV: The Madness (starring Colman Domingo, Netflix 11/28/24), And Just Like That…, Chicago Fire, Mrs. Fletcher, Law & Order (trifecta), Instinct, Good Wife, The Good Nurse, Trust, many others. Social Outreach: Waterwell, Theater of War Productions (facilitator and actor), AITAF. Graduate, Yale School of Drama.