The Heart Sellers
by LLOYD SUH
directed by MAY ADRALES
McGuire Proscenium Stage
When Luna and Jane run into each other at the supermarket on Thanksgiving Day, they discover they have much in common — they’re both new to America and spending the holiday alone while their medical-resident husbands work the night away. Longing for connection, the two homesick women return to Luna’s apartment for the evening. Over a bottle of wine (or two), they attempt to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal while sharing their stories and dreams. Set eight years after the Hart-Celler Act of 1965 overhauled the U.S. immigration system, this poignant comedy illuminates the Asian immigrant experience and asks, “Would you give up your heart to make a new home?”
Venue info
This production will take place on the McGuire Proscenium Stage.
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Ticket prices
Ticket prices range from $32 to $92, including handling fees. Read about our ticket handling fees and policies.
| Area 1A | Area 1 | Area 2 | Area 3 | Area 4 | |
| All previews (Dec 14-18) | $76.00 | $65.00 | $47.00 | $39.00 | $32.00 |
| Tues, Wed evenings; weekday matinees | $80.00 | $69.00 | $51.00 | $43.00 | $38.00 |
| Sun, Thu evenings; Opening Nights | $84.00 | $73.00 | $57.00 | $47.00 | $42.00 |
| Fri evenings; Sat, Sun matinees | $88.00 | $77.00 | $61.00 | $51.00 | $46.00 |
| Sat evenings | $92.00 | $81.00 | $65.00 | $57.00 | $50.00 |
Age recommendation
We recommend this production for ages 12 and up.
Run time
Approximately 1 hour, 25 minutes (no intermission)
Group sales
All student and adult groups of 15 or more qualify for discounts on tickets to Guthrie productions.
Accessibility
ASL-interpreted, audio-described and open-captioned performances are available on select dates. Download the audio description notes or ASL program.
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Post-play discussions
Patrons are invited to stay in the theater following select performances for a 20-minute conversation about the production facilitated by Guthrie staff. Cast members may join the discussion as they are able.
Patrons are invited to stay in the theater following select performances for a 20-minute conversation about the production facilitated by Guthrie staff. Cast members may join the discussion as they are able. Post-play discussions are supported by Fredrikson.
Sunday, January 5 at 1 p.m.
Facilitated by Blossom Johnson, Community Engagement Associate
Tuesday, January 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 8 at 1 p.m.
Saturday, January 18 at 1 p.m.
Sunday, January 19 at 1 p.m.
Asian Artists Pop-Up Market
Saturday, January 18, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Level One lobby
Shop for keepsakes, gifts and handcrafted treasures from a curated group of local Asian artisans and makers. This event is open to the public. We hope you'll join us!
Play guide and digital program
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Discover the heart behind the play
MPR News explores how playwright Lloyd Suh finds connection and meaning in The Heart Sellers through poignant storytelling that honors immigrant experiences and family ties.
Jenna Agbayani
Luna
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Jenna Agbayani
GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Regional: The Huntington: The Heart Sellers. AWARDS Elliot Norton Award nomination for Outstanding Lead in a Play (Large Theater). TRAINING The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. www.agbayanijenna.com
Jim Cunningham
Recorded Voice (Radio DJ)
Juyeon Song
Jane
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Juyeon Song
GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER The Huntington: The Heart Sellers; Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival: If Words Could Talk; Haenyeo’s Kitchen (Jeju, South Korea): Haenyeo’s Kitchen. FILM/TELEVISION White Butterfly (2023, New York Asian Film Festival, National Film Festival for Talented Youth and Hawai’i International Film Festival), Parked in America (2020, South by Southwest), This Is All You Are, Pedigree. TRAINING B.F.A., Theatre, NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Experimental Theatre Wing). @juyeon.ida (IG)
Lloyd Suh
Playwright
The Heart Sellers
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Lloyd Suh
GUTHRIE Debut. ABOUT Lloyd Suh is the author of plays including The Far Country (2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist), The Heart Sellers, The Chinese Lady, Franklinland, Bina’s Six Apples, American Hwangap and many others. His work has been produced across the country, including at Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater, Alliance Theatre, The Huntington and Berkeley Rep; with Ma-Yi Theater Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others; and internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with Pacific Conservatory Theatre at the Guerilla Theatre in Seoul, South Korea. Awards include the Steinberg Playwright Award, Horton Foote Prize, Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and Guggenheim Fellowship. Suh was elected to the Dramatists Guild Council in 2016 and serves as a Professor of the Practice at Princeton University.
May Adrales
Director
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
May Adrales
GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Vietgone, Poor Yella Rednecks, Dakar 2000, Golden Shield; Second Stage: Somebody's Daughter, Letters of Suresh; Lincoln Center Theater: Luce; Signature Theatre: The Dance and the Railroad; Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival; South Coast Repertory; Seattle Rep; The Huntington; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Milwaukee Rep; Two River Theater Company. AWARDS Ammerman Award at Arena Stage; Theatre Communications Group’s Alan Schneider Director Award; Zelda Fichandler SDCF Award (finalist); League of Professional Theatre Women Award; Drama League Fellowship; Van Lier Fellowship. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. www.mayadrales.net
Wilson Chin
Scenic Designer
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Wilson Chin
GUTHRIE The Birds. THEATER Broadway/National Tours: Cost of Living, Pass Over, Next Fall, Annie; Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: Sumo; Signature Theatre: A Bright New Boise, Sunset Baby; Playwrights Horizons: The Thanksgiving Play; Roundabout Theatre Company: Jonah; MCC: Space Dogs; Vineyard Theatre: This Land Was Made. OPERA Washington National Opera: Turandot; Lyric Opera of Chicago: Lucia di Lammermoor; Canadian Opera Company: Eine Florentinische Tragödie, Gianni Schicchi. FILM/TELEVISION Pass Over (Spike Lee, director), Game Theory With Bomani Jones (HBO). AWARDS Nominations: Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes. OTHER Eastern Region Board Member, Local USA 829. @wilsonchindesign
Junghyun Georgia Lee
Costume Designer
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Junghyun Georgia Lee
GUTHRIE As You Like It, Sense and Sensibility. THEATER The Public Theater; NYTW; Atlantic Theater Company; Audible Theater; The Play Company; Ma-Yi Theater Company; Children’s Theatre Company; The Huntington; PlayMakers Repertory Company; The Juilliard School; Indiana Repertory Theatre. TEACHING Faculty at Amherst College, MA. AWARDS Nominations: Drama Desk, Henry Hewes, Connecticut Critics Circle. TRAINING M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. www.junghyungeorgialeedesign.com
Kat C. Zhou
Lighting Designer
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Kat C. Zhou
GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Off-Broadway: Out of the Box Theatrics: See What I Wanna See; AMT Theater: Monsters of the Villa Diodati; Irish Repertory Theatre: The Butcher Boy; Regional: Oklahoma City Repertory Theater; The Cape Playhouse; The Huntington; Gloucester Stage Company; SpeakEasy Stage Company; Perseverance Theatre. OPERA White Snake Projects: MONKEY; Odyssey Opera/BMOP: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X; American Modern Opera Company: El Cimarrón. DANCE Ballet Rhode Island: Cinderella; BalletX Tour (Lighting Supervisor); American Modern Opera Company: With Care. AWARDS Elliot Norton Award. TRAINING M.F.A., Lighting Design, Boston University. @katczhoudesign (IG), www.katzhoudesign.com
Fabian Obispo
Sound Designer/Composer
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Fabian Obispo
GUTHRIE Black No More. THEATER Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: Sea Wall/A Life, Oedipus El Rey (Hewes nomination), Durango, Teenage Dick; Ma-Yi Theater Company: The Chinese Lady (Lortel nomination), Once Upon a (Korean) Time (Hewes nomination), Felix Starro (his own musical); Regional: Arena Stage: Angels in America (Helen Hayes nomination); Alliance Theatre: Bina’s Six Apples (Suzi Bass nomination); The Huntington: Boleros for the Disenchanted (IRNE nomination); A.C.T.: The Imaginary Invalid (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination). FILM/TELEVISION Vancouver (LA Film Festival’s Indie Short Fest Award, Best Original Score), 20 Years of Asian American Playwriting (original score, PBS). AWARDS Berkshire Theatre Critics Award; Barrymore Award
Christine Mok
Dramaturg
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Christine Mok
GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company: The Far Country; La MaMa: Harvest; Regional: The Huntington: Sojourners, The Heart Sellers; Milwaukee Rep: The Heart Sellers; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Snow in Midsummer; Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Madama Butterfly; Yale Rep: The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow; Northlight Theatre; The Playhouse at Weston Theater Company. TEACHING Associate Professor, The University of Rhode Island. OTHER Member of Wingspace Theatrical Design. TRAINING Ph.D., Theatre and Performance Studies, Brown University; M.F.A., Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama. www.wingspace.com/christine
Keely Wolter
Vocal Coach
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Keely Wolter
GUTHRIE Over 15 productions, including The Heart Sellers, The Lehman Trilogy, Little Shop of Horrors, The Importance of Being Earnest, Vietgone and Noura. THEATER Theater Latté Da: Chicago, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Five Points, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Six Degrees of Separation, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ragtime, Lullaby, Sweeney Todd, All Is Calm; Jungle Theater: Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, The Wickhams, Miss Bennet, Lone Star Spirits, Le Switch, Constellations; Penumbra Theatre: benevolence, Wedding Band; MN Opera: The Fix. TRAINING Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; Viterbo University
Lori Lundquist
Stage Manager
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Lori Lundquist
GUTHRIE Stage Manager: Little Shop of Horrors, For the People, Into the Woods, The Little Prince, Vietgone, Guys and Dolls; Assistant Stage Manager: A Raisin in the Sun. THEATER Broadway: Fosse, The Best Man, Holiday; Off-Broadway: Head of Passes with Phylicia Rashad (The Public Theater); Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TFANA); MCC Theater; Vineyard Theatre; Signature Theatre; Shakespeare in the Park; Roundabout Theatre Company; Playwrights Horizons; Second Stage Theater; Minetta Lane Theatre; NYTW; NYSAF; Regional: Over 60 productions at theaters across the country. OPERA MN Opera; Indianapolis Opera; Opera Memphis; New York City Opera. TRAINING B.A./B.S., Bemidji State University
Olivia Louise Tree Plath
Assistant Stage Manager
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Olivia Louise Tree Plath
GUTHRIE The History Plays (Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V), Hamlet, Sally & Tom, Sweat, Noura. THEATER Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival; Cleveland Play House; Dorset Theatre Festival; Yale Rep. FILM/TELEVISION Angry Deaf People Productions; The Theatre Downstream: The Lemonade Jamboree, The Hepburn Girls, No Lost Cause. AWARDS Dexter Wood Luke Memorial Prize. TRAINING M.F.A., Stage Management, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University
Joy Lanceta Coronel
Dialect Coach
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Joy Lanceta Coronel
GUTHRIE Debut. THEATER New York (selected): Atlantic Theater Company: What Became of Us, The Great Leap, Nomad Motel; Ma-Yi Theater Company: Among the Dead, Once Upon a (Korean) Time; Regional (selected): American Players Theatre: The Sins of Sor Juana, Smart People, Sense and Sensibility; Actors Theatre of Louisville: King John, Loving and Loving; Williamstown Theatre Festival: Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club; Milwaukee Rep/The Huntington: The Heart Sellers; Berkeley Rep: The Far Country. www.joylancetacoronel.com
Jennifer Liestman
Resident Casting Director
The Heart Sellers
McGuire Proscenium
Jennifer Liestman
GUTHRIE Artistic Team member since 2003; More than 70 productions, workshops and readings since 2015, including The Lehman Trilogy, Little Shop of Horrors, The History Plays, Dial M for Murder, ‘Art’, For the People, The Importance of Being Earnest, Shane, Into the Woods, Hamlet, The Little Prince, Sally & Tom, Vietgone, Sweat, A Raisin in the Sun, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, Dickens’ Holiday Classic, Noura, Floyd’s, West Side Story, Familiar, Watch on the Rhine, Native Gardens and Disgraced. FILM/TELEVISION Casting Consultant: Master Servant. TEACHING University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Acting Program; Universities in MN and the U.S. TRAINING B.A., Theatre, MSU Moorhead
Juyeon Song and Jenna Agbayani (Dan Norman)
Juyeon Song and Jenna Agbayani (Dan Norman)
Juyeon Song and Jenna Agbayani (Dan Norman)
Juyeon Song and Jenna Agbayani (Dan Norman)
Jenna Agbayani and Juyeon Song (Dan Norman)
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