From America, With Love at 28th Street Theater

Caroline Sánchez-Avakian’s timely new play explores voting, belonging, and the bureaucratic maze at the heart of American democracy.

Set during the final minutes of Election Day, From America, With Love unfolds inside a nearly empty polling place where a last-minute voter discovers that his name is missing from the rolls. As poll workers attempt to help him navigate provisional ballots, conflicting rules, unanswered hotline calls, and an increasingly absurd bureaucratic maze, a seemingly routine problem becomes a larger reckoning with who gets to participate - and who gets to belong - in American democracy.

By turns funny, tense, and deeply human, the play examines the gap between America’s democratic ideals and the lived experience of trying to exercise one of its most fundamental rights. Through characters shaped by immigration, naturalization, family history, and their own complicated relationships with voting, From America, With Love asks what happens when faith in democracy collides with the systems meant to uphold it.

The cast features:

• Adam Kaster*

• Rosie Gunther McCooe

• Stephanie Dulli

• Amy Gill

• Allison Scott-Gonzalez

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

Sunday, October 11, 2026 5:00 p.m. performance block

28th Street Theatre, 2nd Floor 15 W. 28th Street New York, NY 10001

About the Playwright

Caroline Sánchez-Avakian is a playwright, political communications executive, and former Emmy-nominated television host and actor whose career has spanned theatre, television, and international development and advocacy communications. Drawing on her background as a first-generation Cuban and Spanish American, her plays explore identity and the ways ordinary people navigate complex political systems. Her recent works include 1939 and From America, With Love.

About Spark Theatre Festival

Emerging Artists Theatre’s Spark Theatre Festival NYC (formerly the New Work Series) began in 2006 and focuses on new works, diverse talents, and emerging voices. emergingartiststheatre.org

Media Contact: Caroline Sánchez-Avakian carolineavakian@gmail.com