LAFPI

Skylight Theatre Company
Presents The World Premiere of
Roger Q. Mason’s
Hide & Hide

Directed by Jessica Hanna

Thursday, May 15 – Sunday, June 29, 2025

Skylight Theatre Company proudly presents the World premiere of Hide & Hide, written by Roger Q. Mason and directed by Jessica Hanna. Previews begin May 9, 10, and 14, with opening night on Thursday, May 15. The production runs through Sunday, June 29, 2025, at Skylight Theatre. This new work marks the playwright’s return to Skylight Theatre Company following the success and critical acclaim of their 2022 production, Lavender Men. Hide & Hide is the second in Mason’s Califas Trilogy. It is a Homeric critique of the American Dream told through Billy (played by Ben Larson), a queer rent-boy from Texas fleeing a Christian sex conversion camp, and Constanza (played by Amielynn Abellera, The Pitt), a Filipina immigrant with a soon-to-expire visa, who together form a sham marriage to pursue their version of that dream in seedy 1980 Los Angeles.

“Hide & Hide excavates the myth of the American Dream, how it motivates, corrodes, and ignites people to do the unspeakable in the name of freedom,” shares the playwright and creator, Roger Q. Mason. “The piece is based in 1980, the year my mother immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. In times like these, she—and our family at large—wonder, ‘Was the plane ride even worth the journey?’ I think so, but we have to fight for the freedom promised in the dream.”