This is Our Youth
By Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by EJ Baker

This is Our Youth follows 48 hours in the lives of three very lost young souls in New York City at the dawn of the Reagan era: Warren Straub, a dejected 19-year-old who steals $15,000 from his father; Dennis Ziegler, his charismatic domineering drug-dealing friend; and Jessica Goldman, the anxiously insightful young woman for whom Warren yearns.  Lonergan provides a snapshot of the moment between adolescence and adulthood when young people enter the world on their own, armed only with the ideas and techniques they developed as teenagers—ideas and techniques far more sophisticated than their parents ever realize, and far less effectual than they themselves can possibly imagine.


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EJ Baker

EJ Baker is a junior in the College, and is, for lack of any practical skills, an English major. She also has minors in both Political Science and Cinema Studies, with hopes of parlaying her relatively useless degree into a career in either politics or the television industry. To avoid thinking about this bleak future, EJ has immersed herself in Penn theatre. She is the current Chair of Quadramics Theatre Co. and has been involved in various capacities, both on stage and off, on numerous Penn productions. In addition to producing and taking on odd jobs for Q, EJ has worked with iNtuitons, Penn Players, and the TAC-e Collaborative One Acts and Small Fall. This Is Our Youth marks her first collaboration with Front Row and she is looking forward to starting work on this very exciting production.

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