The Haunted Files & Monologue Mission
“MONOLOGUES”
“Built on Immigrants, Settled for Disaster”
By Elliot Babilonia (he/him)
Read by J.D. Mollison
“America, The (not so) Great”
By Nicaulis Mercedes (she/her)
Read by Kyla Garcia
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“The Haunted Files”
By Judy Tate & THE LATE Michael Slade
Dir. by Melissa Maxwell
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STARRING ANTU YACOB & STINA NIELSEN
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Producer & Sound Designer: Simone Barros
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Videographer, Audio Engineer & Editor: Zachary Betonte
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TECHNICAL PRODUCER: YOUNG PARK
In 1904, a young black infant named Hazel is left on a doorstep. She is taken in by a family from whom she later runs away. Thus begins an odyssey of arrests, institutionalization, and medical intervention — all in an effort to cure her of “immorality.” Characters are real people from the files of the Eugenics Records Office in Cold Spring Harbor.
Post-Show Conversation: “‘Good Genes’ and America’s Quest for Racial Purity” with Jack Tchen and Leora Fuller (the original curators of The Haunted Files exhibition) | Moderated by Judy Tate
Sourced from records in the Eugenics Records Office exhibit which Noa Fuller and Jack Tchen co-curated under the title “The Haunted Files”;
Judy Tate, co-founder of The American Slavery Project.
*The Haunted Files returns (2021) in a special premiere with a live talkback as part of