Romeo + Juliet's Tommy Dorfman will star in New York Theatre Workshop's premiere of Becoming Eve this spring.

Written by Emil Weinstein (A League of Their Own) and based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein (Sources of Pride), the production will be directed by Tyne Rafaeli (Spain). Becoming Eve will begin performances at Abrons Arts Center March 19, with opening night set for April 7, for a limited run through April 27.

Set a week before the Jewish High Holidays, three rabbis find themselves in a room fighting to save a family suspended between orthodoxy and modernity. One of the three, Chava (Dorfman), is the child of a dynastic Hasidic rabbinical family who was destined to become a leader of the next generation before her trans identity imploded the strictly gendered world in which she was raised.  Becoming Eve is Weinstein's playwriting debut.

Stein is considered the first openly transgender woman raised in a Hasidic community, and is a direct descendant of Hasidic Judaism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov. In 2015, she founded one of the first support groups nationwide for trans people with an Orthodox Jewish background who have left Orthodox Judaism. Stein is the first woman, and the first openly transgender woman, to have been ordained by an Orthodox Jewish institution, having received her rabbinical degree in 2011 before her coming out.

Becoming Eve will feature scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado (Yellow Face), costume design by Enver Chakartash (Romeo + Juliet), lighting design by Ben Stanton (Maybe Happy Ending), sound design by UptownWorks' Daniela Hart, Noel Nichols, and Bailey Trieweiler (Blood of the Lamb), puppet design by Amanda Villalobos (Wolf Play), and music by Daniel Kluger (Oh, Mary!). Claire Yenson is the casting director, and Jason Kaiser (Monsoon Wedding) will serve as stage manager.

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