Lineup Set For MIXTAPE: Volume 4 From Keen Company

Keen Company has announced the full lineup for MIXTAPE: Volume 4, curated by Mona Mansour. The one-night-only event will take place Wednesday, May 6th, 7:30 PM at Judson Memorial Church and feature George Abud, Marinda Anderson, Brian Bock, Hannah Corneau, Julian Fleisher, Keren Lugo, Omar Metwally, Erin Neufer, Joshua David Robinson, Aline Salloum, with a special original piece by Heidi Rodewald, and music direction by Josh Kight. The evening will highlight work in Arabic and Spanish, poetry readings, a song created from found text, original music, an interview-based verbatim monologue, and a pair of clowns.

The Mixtape Series is a new Keen Company initiative presenting one-night-only events curated by artists across disciplines. Each installment brings together a range of performance styles selected by its curator, reflecting Keen's focus on intimate, multidisciplinary live experiences.

The inaugural Mixtape event, curated by Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri, took place December 3, 2025, at The Space at Irondale and featured work by Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Ira Glass, David Cale, Kim Ima, 2nd Best Dance Company, Katherine Paola De La Cruz, and The Bengsons. Mixtape Volume 2: Curated by Adam Gwon, took place March 2, 2026 at National Sawdust and featured Gwon's original music sung by Elizabeth Stanley, Deborah S. Craig, Soara-Joye Ross. Additional performances include excerpts from Rona Siddiqui and Bryce Pinkham's musical Father Time; original choreography and dance by Jennifer Jancuska & The BringAbout; new work by Isaac Oliver, writer of Broadway's Just in Time; and an "11 o'clock number" sermon by Micah Bucey. Mixtape Volume 3: Curated by Ato Blankson-Wood, took place April 13, 2026 at National Sawdust and celebrated Black women/femmes performers and their work, including Andrea Ambam, Arewà Basit, Eisa Davis, Latoya Edwards, Paige Gilbert, Amber Iman, Onyekachi Iwu, Jenny Jules, Maya Sharpe, Indigo Sparks, and Lark White.

Mona Mansour grew up in a Southern California suburb, the daughter of a Lebanese immigrant father and American mother from Seattle. She moved to New York in the wake of the Sept.11th attacks, when the Middle Eastern theater community was fired up by an urgent need to change the narrative around Arab-Americans. The questions around her own father took her to his village in Southern Lebanon, and an examination of the "villages'' next to it - the Palestinian camps Mieh-Mieh and Ain El Hilweh. This notion of displacement became central to The Vagrant Trilogy, which made its NYC debut at The Public Theater in 2022, directed by Mark Wing-Davey. Awards: PEN America, Literature Award/Academy of Arts and Letters; Steinberg, Kesselring, Whiting. Beautiful Little Fool, written with Hannah Corneau and directed by Michael Greif, will receive its premiere in London in January 2026 at Southwark Playhouse. Her plays have been translated into Arabic, Italian, Romanian and Hungarian.

Founded in 2000, Keen Company is led by Artistic Director Kelly Kerwin and Producing Director Annie Middleton, who began their tenure in July 2025. The company's mission centers on creating intimate theatrical experiences that foster connection and engagement.