Always Love Lucy Theatre

Death of a Salesman was written by American playwright Arthur Miller over a few weeks in 1948, and is the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.

Our production uses the original setting, year and dialogue, while changing the Lomans to South Asians to demonstrate the universal themes of complicated family relationships, disappointment in life choices, how we can misunderstand and be unable to save someone we have known our entire lives.

Director Juan Reinoso is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have played in festivals across the globe. Juan attended Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York City on a performance scholarship, where he studied under Obie-nominated director Larry Sacharow (Three Tall Women) and Tony-nominated director Michael Mayer (Triumph of Love; You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; A View From the Bridge; Thoroughly Modern Millie). Believing that artistic passion and human integrity and generosity should be combined in all works, he began producing small stage works for other writers, and eventually moved into the feature film and commercial world. He has worked in TV, film, stage, commercials, music videos and more. Select Stage credits include: Death of a Salesman (off-Broadway; director), Down the Road (off-Broadway; director), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (off-off-Broadway; director); Playing Tennis With God(writer/producer/director); This Time…(writer/producer/director).

Producer Saima Huq is a first-generation Pakistani-American and a public health professional who moved to New York in 2004 to be an epidemiologist for the city government. She began acting for experience and some extra cash, while continuing to work on research projects for Columbia University and NYU. She has appeared in various film and television projects, including The Good Wife. On a flight to China in Sept 2013, Saima was reading Arthur Miller’s memoir Time Bends. She was flying over South Asia when she read about how Miller oversaw a production of Salesman in Beijing, and requested the Chinese actors stop trying to Westernize themselves for the play. The result was a production that inspired Miller to write an entire book called Salesman in Beijing. Saima was in turn inspired to cast South Asians as the Lomans and multicultural actors in all other roles, allowing the best audition, and not race or national origin, be the deciding factor. The result is an amazing dedicated cast ready to showcase Miller in a new incarnation.