HIDE at Howland Cultural Center

What happens when one man dares to speak the truth his community refuses to face? HIDE, a searing new one-person play written and performed by Jeffrey Doornbos—a longtime member of the internationally renowned Blue Man Group—confronts that question head-on.

Set in a small Midwestern town, HIDE follows a devout parishioner who locks his congregation inside their church to protest its treatment of undocumented members. As the standoff unfolds, he’s forced to reckon not only with his faith and moral responsibility, but with hidden truths about himself.

In an era when silence often feels safer than conviction, HIDE examines the personal toll of courage—and the uneasy boundary between righteousness and recklessness.

The work marks Doornbos’s playwriting debut. He is a theatre, film, and television actor, who spent many years as a Blue Man with Blue Man Group. Directed by Dani Davis, the Emmy Award-winning writer and Tony-nominated Broadway producer known for her emotionally charged storytelling on stage and screen, with dramaturgy by renowned actor and Hudson Valley resident, Shae D'lyn.

Following its first presentation last summer at The Wingéd Monkeys Pieces Project in Hudson, NY—founded by actor/director Shae D’Lyn—HIDE made its way to the United Solo Festival in New York City, where it won Best Fiction, and now lands at the Howland Cultural Center with a bold, intimate new staging.