Welcome

to the world Premiere of

Last Call,

A play with cocktails

Welcome to Last Call: a play with cocktails! Because you’re joining us in a private home, we ask you to keep a few simple guidelines in mind:

Drinking is Optional:
Sip if you’d like, or skip it. Your choice. No pressure, ever.

Respect the Space:
You’re in someone’s home. Please treat it with care.

No phones during the performance:
Put the phones away and stay in the moment.

Thanks for helping us keep this night safe, respectful, and unforgettable.

En Garde Arts

Please note:

Welcome to the end of the world.
Can we offer you a drink?

From the artist-led collective The Pack and Obie Award-winning playwright Hansol Jung (Wolf Play) comes Last Call: A Play with Cocktails, an intimate, immersive, site-specific performance staged in real New York apartments performed by the knockout rotating cast of Chris Bannow, Esco Jouléy, Dorcas Leung, Brian Quijada, Nicole Villamil, Mitch Winter.

Performed for an audience of just 20-40 guests at a time, Last Call unfolds behind a bar and among the crowd, where mixers are stirred, memories are shaken, and a story begins to pour. Hosts and guests blur together in a swirl of love, grief, survival, and the fictions we swallow to feel alive.

Equal parts ghost story, house party, and theatrical séance, this bold new piece invites audiences into a world not unlike our own: post-crisis, mid-recovery, and craving connection.

About last call

Come thirsty. Stay curious.

And remember, truth, like a good drink,

depends on who’s behind the bar.

Last Call, a play with cocktails
creative team

who’s who

Hansol Jung
Playwright & Co-Director

Dustin Wills
Co-Director

Lexy Leuszler
Dramaturg & Mixologist

Chris Bannow
Performer

Esco Jouléy
Performer

Brian Quijada
Performer

Nicole Villamil
Performer

Mitchell Winter
Performer

Dorcas Leung
Performer

Anne Hamburger
Executive Artistic Director

Spencer Armstrong
Managing Producer

Sophie Siegel-Warren
Development Manager &
Associate Producer

Max Mooney
Assistant Producer

Amanda Cooper
Consulting General Manager

Isabelle Holmes
Business Manager

John Clinton Eisner
Creative Producer in Residence

Morgan Tachco
Ad Hamington & Associates, Development Consultants

En Garde Arts Staff

A note from anne hamburger

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

Anne

A note from Hansol Jung

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

Anne

A note from Dustin Wills

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

Anne

A note from The pack

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

I founded En Garde Arts in 1985 and put site-specific work on the map in New York City, premiering theatrical productions created by some of the most innovative artists of the time: Chuck Mee, Mac Wellman, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Jonathan Larson, and others. For these shows, we closed off Wall Street and four square blocks of the meatpacking district, and occupied the abandoned Towers Nursing Home. This was a time when the city had a plethora of empty buildings, as 9/11 hadn’t happened, and support for doing innovative work flowed more freely from funders, from the press, and from city agencies. But the world has fundamentally changed since the 90s, as has our city; and site-specific work, especially work that is creatively and economically challenging, feels near impossible. En Garde has always adapted to the times, and though site work is only a portion of the work we produce today, it remains one of my great loves.

Anne

Meet the Team

  • Hansol Jung - Playwright & Co-director

    Hansol Jung, playwright and director. Plays: Merry Me (NYTW), Wolf Play (Soho Rep & Ma-Yi), Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater & La Jolla), Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO & Two River) Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi), and No More Sad Things (Boise Contemporary). TV & Film: Pachinko (Apple +) Tales of the City (Netflix) including development with Amazon Studios, and Apple + TV. Hansol is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel award for Best Play, Obie Award, Herb Alpert Award, Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark’s Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, Two-time MacDowell Fellowship, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court..

    She is a proud member of NYTW's Usual Suspects, the Kilroys and a founding member of The Pack. MFA: Yale.

  • Dustin Wills, Co-Director

    DUSTIN WILLS was recently described by the Obie Award Committee as having an “ability to navigate chaos with precision,” and that about sums it up. Recent productions include Tennessee Williams’ sprawling Camino Real at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Counterfeit Opera and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Little Island (Best Theater of 2024, New York Magazine), Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Production), and John J. Caswell Jr.’s Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons/MCC). Dustin has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a 2023 Obie Award winner, Princess Grace Award recipient, and Baryshnikov Center Artist Resident 2018. He teaches in the Directing and Playwriting programs at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

  • Lexy Leuszler, DRAMATURGY & MIXOLOGY

    Lexy Leuszler has developed works with Melis Aker, Florencia Cuenca, Georgina Escobar, Jaime Lozano, Eliana Pipes, Hansol Jung, Lina Patel, Brian Quijada, Tatiana Pandiani, and Jacinta Clusellas. As Literary Manager for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, she established the NMTC Incubator program alongside Alexander Gemignani. She has taught with Actors Theatre of Louisville, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Theater, the National Theater Institute, Connecticut College, and the Kennedy Center.  Member of The Pack, the 2023 Kilroy’s Web and American Theatre Magazine's Role Call: People to Watch list. She is the Co-Artistic Director of the WildWind Performance Lab at Texas Tech University.

  • Chris Bannow

    Chris Bannow, Broadway: Daniel Fish’s Tony Award Winning Oklahoma!, The Elephant Manstarring Bradley Cooper (also West End, Theater Royal Haymarket). Off-Broadway: The Counterfeit Opera, The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island), Wolf Play (Lortel Award, MCC Theater and Soho Rep), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), The Hairy Ape (Park Avenue Armory), Electra in a One Piece(Wild Project). Regional: Center Theater Group, Kennedy Center, Williamstown, Huntington, McCarter, Berkshire Theatre Group, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Boston Playwrights Theater. Film/TV : Not Fade Away, Three Christs, Screamers, Fidelity, “The Late Late Show with James Corden”. Boston University, Yale School of Drama.

  • Esco Jouléy, Performer

    Esco Jouléy is winning over audiences as “Sonya” in the acclaimed FX series DYING FOR SEX, alongside Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate, and previously starred opposite Patricia Clarkson and Brendan Gleeson in the Sundance series STATE OF THE UNION. Theater credits include: Trophy Boys (MCC) Wolf Play (MCC also SoHo Rep) and other recent theatre includes Merry Me (NYTW) Twelfth Night (The Old Globe) and As You Like It (La Jolla). Additional television includes BLINDSPOTTING (Starz), HIGH MAINTENANCE (HBO), INVENTING ANNA (Netflix), MONSTERLAND (Hulu), and the ABC Discovers Showcase.

  • DORCAS LEUNG, PERFORMER

    DORCAS LEUNG (she/her) is an actor and artist. Earlier this year, she completed a run of "The Counterfeit Opera" (Little Island, NYC) as Polly Peachum, a new take on the legendary satire – The Beggar’s Opera. Other credits include, Broadway: The Notebook as Georgie/Others (u/s Young Allie), Gigi Van Tranh in Miss Saigon. Off-Broadway: Dou Yi in Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company). Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, translated by Hansol Jung (NAATCO/Two River Theater). Tour: Roles of Eliza, Angelica, Peggy/Maria, Hamilton (1st National). Select Regional Houses: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater,  Dallas Theater Center, Barrington Stage Company, Goodspeed Opera House, The MUNY. Television: “Bull,” “Madam Secretary” (CBS).

  • Brian Quijada, Performer

    Brian Quijada is a playwright, actor, and composer whose original work includes Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, Kid Prince and Pablo, Somewhere Over the Border, and Mexodus. As an actor, Brian has appeared in MCC’s Wolf Play, The Public’s Oedipus El Rey, Roundabout’s Bobbie Clearly and Playwright’s Realm’s My Mañana Comes. TV credits include Law and Order SVU, Search Party and Blue Bloods. Brian is a recipient of 4 Jeff Awards, 2 Helen Hayes Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, and is a 3-time Drama Desk nominee. He is a proud member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre and proud member of the Lucille Lortel winning-group, The Pack. 

  • Nicole Villamil, performer

    Nicole Villamil, Actor. Romeo and Juliet (A.R.T),: Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), Wolf Play (MCC Theatre), Wolf Play (Soho Rep), How to load a Musket (59E59), Network (Broadway), Queens (LCT3), Lessons in Survival (Vineyard Theatre -Online Series), MUD (Boundless Theatre), Shakespeare’s R&J (Hangar Theatre), De Profundis (PlayMakers Rep), Tell me I’m not Crazy, The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Hunchback of Seville, The Love of the Nightingale (Trinity Repertory Co.); TELEVISION: New Amsterdam, The Last OG; [Edu] M.F.A., Brown/Trinity Repertory Co.; B.A., University of Pennsylvania. She is the 2023 Lucille Lortel Award Recipient for Outstanding Ensemble. @nicoleavillamil

  • Mitchell Winter, Performer

    Mitchell Winter, Theater credits include: Hamlet (dir. Kenny Leon, Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park), Wolf Play (dir. Dustin Wills, MCC & Soho Rep)(Lortel Award for Best Ensemble), Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. David Auburn, Berkshire Theatre Group), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), Redemption Story (ART/NY), A Winter’s Tale, A Doctor In Spite of Himself, American Night (Yale Rep), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), Miss Saigon (Australian National Tour), Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company), Normativity (NYMF), Die Fledermaus (Australian Opera Studio) and Joseph… Dreamcoat (Really Useful). Film/TV credits include: Mr. Robot (USA Network), Oh Jerome No (FX), If Not Love (official Sundance selection). MFA: Yale School of Drama.

About En Garde Arts

  • En Garde Arts

    Brian Quijada is a playwright, actor, and composer whose original work includes Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, Kid Prince and Pablo, Somewhere Over the Border, and Mexodus. As an actor, Brian has appeared in MCC’s Wolf Play, The Public’s Oedipus El Rey, Roundabout’s Bobbie Clearly and Playwright’s Realm’s My Mañana Comes. TV credits include Law and Order SVU, Search Party and Blue Bloods. Brian is a recipient of 4 Jeff Awards, 2 Helen Hayes Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, and is a 3-time Drama Desk nominee. He is a proud member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre and proud member of the Lucille Lortel winning-group, The Pack. 

About Anne

  • Anne Hamburger, Founding Executive Artistic Director

    Mitchell Winter, Theater credits include: Hamlet (dir. Kenny Leon, Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park), Wolf Play (dir. Dustin Wills, MCC & Soho Rep)(Lortel Award for Best Ensemble), Dracula and The Importance of Being Earnest (dir. David Auburn, Berkshire Theatre Group), Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr), Redemption Story (ART/NY), A Winter’s Tale, A Doctor In Spite of Himself, American Night (Yale Rep), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), Miss Saigon (Australian National Tour), Thoroughly Modern Millie (The Production Company), Normativity (NYMF), Die Fledermaus (Australian Opera Studio) and Joseph… Dreamcoat (Really Useful). Film/TV credits include: Mr. Robot (USA Network), Oh Jerome No (FX), If Not Love (official Sundance selection). MFA: Yale School of Drama.

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