The story behind The Bronze Boy

A Play By Nancy Hamada

Our Story:

The Bronze Boy is a new American play exploring the aftermath of a school shooting, the victims of which are not anonymous statistics, but complete and complex human beings, whose loss forever reverberates through the people who loved them.

The Play

A Uniquely American Road Trip.

Fedelis Spector, a once-successful television actress (who walked away from her career after her only child Jessie’s murder by a school shooter), joins her late son’s best friend (and survivor of the same shooting) Art major Taylor Kriss, on a journey from New Jersey to Chicago for Taylor’s graduate presentation. Coming along on the trip is the titular character, a 5-foot bronze statue of Jessie, which Taylor made for Fedelis, and which Fedelis never lets out of her sight. Unbeknownst to Fedelis, Taylor is acquiring and smuggling a large duffle of illegal guns.

The Bronze Boy speaks to art’s essential place in offering a cry against society’s injustices and asks whether an artist’s voice can be heard over the ever-present din of gunfire. Alternately funny, heartbreaking, provocative, and thought-provoking, The Bronze Boy takes two women into the heart of gun country as they take that most American of journeys – the road trip – as they try to find a path forward from an unfathomable tragedy; a tragedy that America, and Americans, face again and again.

The Project

NYC to Edinburgh or Bust.

We are currently raising funds with a goal of opening this play for previews in New York City this summer, with a debut at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

We hope you'll want to help us take this powerful and funny play to an international audience.