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January 23, 2025 - February 23, 2025

Someone Will Remember Us

By Deborah Salem Smith and Charlie Thurston
Created by Dr. Michelle Cruz, Deborah Salem Smith, and Charlie Thurston
Directed by Christopher Windom
January 23 – February 23, 2025

Reflecting on the ripples of conflict 

 In 2006, Trinity Rep told the true, poignant stories of Rhode Islanders deployed in Iraq with the play Boots on the Ground. Nearly 20 years later, how does this legacy live on … and what have we forgotten? Someone Will Remember Us interlaces the real-life testimonies of U.S. military veterans, a Gold Star family, Iraqi civilians, and refugees living in Rhode Island. As military conflict wages on multiple fronts across the world, this production paints a moving portrait of the innumerable tolls of war, and how we find connection through it all.

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Community Partners

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Operation Stand Down Rhode Island (OSDRI)
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Refugee Dream Center

Cast & Creative

Cast
Ashley Aldarondo
Actor 2 (Angelica, an Iraq War veteran)
Jihan Haddad
Actor 6 (Sara, an Iraqi refugee)
Allison Jones
Actor 3 (Millareisha, an Iraq War veteran)
Josephine Moshiri Elwood
Actor 8 (Nadje, a professor/Wafaa, an Iraqi refugee)
Dereks Thomas
Actor 1 (Tyrone, an Iraq War veteran/Omar, Refugee Dream Center founder)
Stephen Thorne
Actor 5 (Ed, a Gold Star father/Neal, an Iraq War chaplain/Dan, an Iraq War veteran and professor)
Rachael Warren
Actor 7 (Regina, a Gold Star mother)
Jade Ziane
Actor 4 (Kamal, an Iraqi refugee)
Robert Cope
Understudy for Actor 5
Sofia DaSilva
Understudy for Actors 6 and 8
Michael Yussef Greene
Understudy for Actor 4
Tylar Jahumpa
Understudy for Actor 1
Amie Lytle
Understudy for Actor 7
Alexis Elisa Macedo
Understudy for Actors 2 and 3

Creative

Deborah Salem Smith
Co-creator and playwright
Charlie Thurston
Co-creator and playwright
Michelle Cruz
Co-creator
Christopher Windom
Director
Michael Yussef Greene
Assistant Director
Tanya Orellana
Scenic Designer
Shahrzad Mazaheri
Costume Designer
Emma Deane
Lighting Designer
Peter Sasha Hurowitz
Sound Designer
Sade Namei
Vocal & Dialect Coach
Polly Feliciano
Stage Manager
Nakia Shalice Avila
Assistant Stage Manager