Road Less Traveled Productions Presents GUARDS AT THE TAJ and Welcomes American Theater Master Playwright Rajiv Joseph

Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) opens its second show of the 2022-2023 season with Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph. Winner of the 2016 Obie Award for Best New Play and 2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, Guards at the Taj will open Thursday November 10 starring Darryl Semira* and Afrim Gjonbalaj* under the direction of RLTP Ensemble Member Katie Mallinson. The production team includes RLTP Ensemble members Sarah Foote (stage management), Dyan Burlingame (set design), John Rickus (light design), Katie Menke (sound design), Jenna Damberger (costume design) and Diane Jones (props master) alongside Shelby Converse (fight director). (*member of Actors' Equity Association)

RLTP is also excited to announce that its 2022 American Theater Master will be playwright Rajiv Joseph. Rajiv will make his return to the Road Less Traveled Theater on Saturday November 19 at 2:00pm as the company's special guest on a live interview recording of OFF ROAD. Rajiv was previously selected as RLTP's 2017 National Playwright Resident where the company developed his play, Archduke, that later made its world-premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

Guards at the Taj Synopsis: India...1648...as the sun rises, two imperial guards are assigned to protect the unveiling of the just-completed Taj Mahal. When ordered to perform the most unthinkable task, friendship is tested and broken by brutal circumstances. Bold, darkly funny and deeply moving, Guards at the Taj addresses friendship and faith in God surrounded by beauty, carnage and duty at one of the most famous wonders of the world.