Ashkenazi Seance

Sarah Sanders can’t decide what to do with a treasured family heirloom, and she’s getting desperate — so desperate, she’s turning to her dead Latvian Jewish ancestors for advice.

Ashkenazi Seance is a solo show and community ritual about American Jewish identity, family, music, and what it means to carry on a legacy. Also, it’s funny!

Written and performed by Sarah Sanders
Directed by Daniel Krane
Music Composed and Performed by Sofia Geck

Press

The seance ritual is an ingenious dramatic device, allowing Sanders to work through her inner fears and contradictions via these channeled voices.

Rokhl Kafrissen, Tablet Magazine

The interactive solo show… features a compelling emotional journey as the main character travels through a seance, complete with audience participation

Katey St. John, BK Reader

Production and Development History

• April 2023: Production at Union Temple House, produced by The Neighborhood in collaboration with Brooklyn Jews

• November 2022: Presented at the Bronfman Fellowship’s Young Alumni Retreat at Pearlstone Retreat Center in Maryland

• July 2022: Production at The Brick in Williamsburg, with assistance from the Bronfman Fellowship’s Young Alumni Venture Fund

• October 2021: Invite-only work-in-progress showing in Sarah’s apartment in Brooklyn

• August 2021: Developed at Fresh Ground Pepper’s BRB Retreat