

NATIVE GARDENS
Colwell Playhouse
Krannert Center of the Performing Arts
By Karen Zacarías
Assistant Lighting Designer
In this new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established DC couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.
Directors: Aaron Munoz, JW Morrisette
Lighting Designer: Quinn Schuster
Scenic Designer: Blaine Fuson
Sound Designer: Kayla Sierra Lee
Costume Designer: Akemi Garcia
Master Electrician: Elliot Hubiak
Stage Manager: Duncan McMillan