Dead to Us at The Irma Sandrey Theatre

A group of friends reunite for a birthday retreat, only to be greeted by spirits that force them to reckon with their past. 

Dead To Us by Malikah Stafford is a darkly comic, supernatural ensemble dramedy about a fractured friend group forced to confront the truth about their cruelty, jealousy, and complicity after the death of one of their own. Two weeks after Arya, a talented, outspoken member of their college theatre cohort, dies mysteriously in her sleep, the surviving friends reunite at a remote cabin under the guise of celebrating a birthday. As tensions resurface and old wounds reopen, the Angels of Death hover above, ensuring that the cosmic balance of chaos, truth, and consequence is maintained. What begins as a celebration soon spirals into a reckoning, forcing each friend to face the roles they played in her downfall. Blending biting humor, surrealism, and poetic confrontation, Dead To Us explores how denial, envy, and silence can kill, and whether redemption is possible when the dead demand the truth.