“Gut-wrenching performances.” — New York Times

Arms Around America is a community-based theater project investigating how Americans experience fear, power, identity, loss, and love through our relationships with guns. 

This world premiere performance is staged as a live radio-theater broadcast. Four actors voice dozens of characters in a constellation of short plays based on real families whose lives have been shaped by guns. They are accompanied by a sound effects artist (Dan Froot) and a live band playing Julio Montero’s driving score.

Arms Around America is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by CAP UCLA and NPN npnweb.org. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funds provided by the Sally & William A. Rutter Endowment for the Performing Arts.