In 1982, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the wealthy, articulate, pot-smoking teenagers who were small children in the '60s have emerged as young adults in a country that has just resoundingly rejected everything they were brought up to believe in. The very last wave of New York City’s '60s-style Liberalism has come of age—and there’s nowhere left to go. In meticulous, hilarious, and agonizing detail, This Is Our Youth follows forty-eight hours of three very lost young souls in the big city at the dawn of the Reagan Era: Warren Straub, a dejected nineteen-year-old who steals fifteen thousand dollars from his abusive lingerie-tycoon father; Dennis Ziegler, the charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend who helps him put the money to good use; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman Warren yearns for. Funny, painful, and compassionate, This Is Our Youth is a living snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when many young people first go out into the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.
Caleb Haberman - Director
Caleb Haberman (he/him) is a rising junior in the The University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre BFA Actor Training Program. Hailing from Southern California, Caleb is an aspiring actor, director, and dramaturg. He is so thankful that he has had such an extraordinary group of people supporting him in his directorial debut!
Clare Brennan - Jessica, Producer
Clare Brennan (she/her) is currently studying in the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Actor Training Program, where she played the Nurse in Romeo & Juliet this past spring. She is super excited to be a part of this production this summer and would like to thank her parents for their support.
Coleson Eldredge - Dennis
Coleson Eldredge (he/him) is so excited to be working with such a brilliant group of collaborators for This is our Youth! Coleson is an upperclassman in the UMN/Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program, where he has performed as Robert Merkin in Junk and King Claudius in Hamlet. He also co-directed King Lear in Salt Lake City, Utah last summer.
Robert Wood Frank - Warren
Robert Wood Frank (he/him) is an actor currently studying at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Actor Training Program where he’s played roles such as Tom Everson Jr. in Junk and Ophelia in Hamlet. He’s thrilled to be a part of this production alongside his good friends.
May Heinecke - Production Technical Support
May Heinecke (she/her) is a student in the University of Minnesota Guthrie Actor Training Program. She is currently teaching at Twin Cities Theatre Camp and will be studying in London through CAPA and the Globe this coming semester.
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