Written by Michael Walek, directed by Linsay Firman

Featuring Brittany K. Allen, Jordan Donaldson, Kristin Griffith, Tommy Heleringer, and Rami Margron

The Tanzanian government allowed Jane Goodall to study chimpanzees in the wild under one condition - she must bring a chaperone. So, Jane invited her mother.

About The Playwright & Director

Michael Walek is a playwright based in New York City.  He is a proud alumni of Youngblood, EST's emerging playwrights collective. His first play, The Bookstore, recently received its world premiere at New Jersey Repertory Company.  Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother? was commissioned by the EST/Sloan Project. It is his second play.

Linsay Firman is Director of Play Development at EST, and Director of the EST/Sloan Project. At EST, she has directed the world premiere of plays by Lucas Hnath and Anna Ziegler, as well as EST Marathon plays by Rachel Bonds, Garrett M. Brown, Darcy Fowler, and Jose Rivera. Other productions at The Hangar Theatre, Ma-Yi Theatre, Chester Theatre, Theatre Row and chashama. Linsay began working in new play development as the Associate Director of Soho Rep, where she was a founder and chair of Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab. Alumna of the Women's Project Director's Lab, the New Dramatists’s Resident Director Program and multiple programs at the Lark. M.F.A. from CalArts.

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