INDIAN PRINCESSES
June 10 - July 6, 2025
World Premiere
by Eliana Theologides Rodriguez
directed by Miranda Cornell
Featuring: Anissa Marie Griego, Rebecca Jimenez, Greg Keller, Patrick Kerr, Jason Maddy, Serenity Mariana, Mike Sears, Clarissa Vickerie, and Haley Wong
Understudies: América Covarrubias, Jason Heil, Mikaela Macias, Maia Nguyen, Kennedy Tolson
Scenic Design: Emmie Finckel
Lighting Design: Mextly Couzin
Costume Design: Samantha C. Jones
Sound Design: Salvador Zamora
Dramaturg: Sierra Rosetta
Casting: tbd casting co.; Stephanie Yankwitt, CSA & Jacole Kitchen and Hannah Reinert for LJP
Assistant Director: Olivia Espinosa
Community Building Advocate: Ann C. James
Associate Scenic Designer: Jessie Baldinger
Associate Lighting Designer: Manuel Da Silva
Assistant Lighting Designer: Nayeli Bailey
Assistant Sound Designer: Scarlett Shi
Stage Manager: Alexa Burn
Assistant Stage Manager: Jack Ganguly
Production/Script Assistant: Katie Davis
Photography by Rich Soublet II and Samantha Laurent
PRESS
“Directed with a gentle comedic sensibility by Miranda Cornell, it’s a setup ripe for satire and laughter. However, what elevates the story is how it sensitively centers the girls' experiences: smart, awkward, bursting with questions and theories, and often left to figure things out for themselves. You see the girls thinking, brimming with unformed thoughts, frustration rising as they try to make sense of feelings they haven’t yet learned how to name. It’s a perfect match for the play’s themes: what it means to be understood, and how what is said and what’s withheld shape who we become…Indian Princesses could’ve been an after-school special about appropriation and awkward dads. Instead, it’s something more interesting: a funny, feminist memory play about the stories we’re told, and it reminds us that even in misguided spaces, kids can forge their own magic, especially when left unsupervised with sticks, secrets, and a deep need to be heard.
And yes, at some point, female friendships will inevitably get a little witchy. That’s just science.” - ErinMarie Reiter, Broadway World San Diego
“Eliana Theologides Rodriguez’s “Indian Princesses” could have been a so-called issue play about racism, identity and cultural appropriation. What it has to say about all three is surely potent, but it’s the young playwright’s rich portrayal of daughters and fathers trying to find their way within themselves and with each other that humanizes this world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.…Performances from the young-adult actors Jimenez, Griego and Wong are particularly affecting, and under Cornell’s smart direction, all five of the “daughters” vividly, at times heartbreakingly, convey the insecurity and fragility of pre-adolescence. But they also show that sometimes girls just want to have fun.” - David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune
What audiences are saying about Indian Princesses - La Jolla Playhouse