We’re thrilled to be bringing our production of RIFT to Edinburgh this summer, and need to raise $40,000 by July 27! Help us get there!
We’ve got all sorts of fabulous donor perks and titles, ranging from VIP tickets in Scotland at the $10,000 Associate Producer level to RIFT temporary tattoos for $25 donors!
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Two brothers — one a progressive novelist, the other a convicted murderer and high-ranking member of a white supremacist prison gang — shared a traumatic childhood. Now adults, these men navigate the edges of their bond.
Are they truly so different?
Join us at Luna as we reprise RIFT for two benefit performances to support the cost of bringing our cast and crew to Scotland!
THE JULY 19th 8pm PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO CAST ILLNESS
Can’t make it to Luna? Please consider a donation help us raise $57k by July 26 to bring our cast and crew to the UK!
Every little bit helps!
We’re thrilled to be parnering with Tony and Emmy award-winning UK producer Richard Jordan to bring RIFT to the renowned Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh for four weeks!
Come See Us At The Traverse Theatre In Edinburgh!
About Our Partners
Traverse Theatre is Scotland’s new writing theatre, a dynamic centre for performance, experience, and discovery. Enabling people across society to access and engage with theatre is our fundamental mission. Our year-round programme bursts with new stories and live performances that challenge, inform and entertain. We empower artists and audiences to make sense of the world today, providing a safe space to question, learn, empathise and – crucially – encounter different people and experiences. Conversation and the coming together of groups are central to a democratic society, and we champion equal expression and understanding. We commission, produce and programme for existing and future audiences to offer new and exciting experiences for everyone, and our partnerships with other theatre companies and festivals enable us to present a wide range of innovative performances. The Traverse would not exist without our over-arching passion for talent development and embracing the unexplored. We work with the newest and rawest talent – with an emphasis on the Scottish-based – nurturing it to become the art, artists and performances that can be seen on our stages through a variety of creative learning and literary programmes. The timely, powerful stories that start life on our stages have a global impact, resulting in dozens of tours, productions, and translations. We are critically acclaimed and recognised the world over for our originality and artistic risk, which we hope will create some of the most talked-about plays, productions, directors, writers, and actors for years to come.
Richard Jordan Productions is a TONY, Olivier, EMMY, and 17-time Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning creative production company under the artistic leadership of British producer Richard Jordan. Based in London, the company was founded in 1998 and enjoys associations with many of the world’s leading theaters and arts organizations, including a long association with the Traverse Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe. Described by The Stage newspaper “as one of the UK’s most prolific theatre producers” and named seven times in their annual list of the top 100 UK theater professionals, Richard Jordan Productions has produced over 260 productions (over 30 New York presentations) in the UK as well as 28 other countries including 101 world premieres and 99 North American, UK or Australian premieres by new and established writers, artists, and companies. Past productions have won a number of major awards including: the Laurence Olivier Award; Dora Award;17 Scotsman Fringe Firsts; 10 Total Theatre Awards; 2 Herald Angel Awards; Emmy Award; Off-West End Award; 2 Jeff Awards; Obie Award; 3 Helen Hayes Awards; John Gardner Award for Best New American Play; Tony Award (along with eleven other Tony nominations); Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Critics; Broadway.com and Outer Critic Circle Best New Play Awards. For his work in human rights and freedom of expression, bringing to the stage voices from different communities and raising awareness about their associated issues, Richard’s productions have received two Amnesty International Awards and the US Black Alliance Award. Most recently, the company was recipient of the 2025 Adelaide Critics Circle Award for Best Play and Best Digital/Immersive Theatre Production. A new writing and musical theatre specialist, and an experienced dramaturge, Richard Jordan was the first recipient of the TIF/Society of London Theatre Producers Award. In 2013, he became the first British producer to have won every notable Broadway and off-Broadway Best New Play Award. He served for seven years as Artistic Associate at London’s leading new writing theatre, The Bush; Creative Director of Theatre Royal Haymarket Productions in London’s West End; and International Producing Partner at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In Australia he is International Associate of Illawarra Performing Arts Centre (IPAC), and in the UK is Patron of the Brighton Fringe – the third largest fringe festival in the world. In 2022 he became the first international producer to present work inside Ukraine since the outbreak of war with the Russian Federation in a collaboration with its national arts festival which brought art and humanitarian aid into the country. His past productions at the Traverse Theatre include: In the Continuum; East 10th Street; Once And For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up And Listen; Nine Parts of Desire; Internal; Teenage Riot; Big Mouth; Cadre; Small War; Pardon/In Cuffs; All that is Wrong; Tango Apocalypso; Stefan Golaszewski is a Widower; A Game of You; en route; Forever Young; A Mobile Thriller; The Broken Road; Goodness; Believe; and also the Edinburgh, Dundee, New York, Chicago, Paris, and London productions of Roadkill, as well as the Traverse Theatre’s first-ever Australian national tour of Midsummer (a play with songs) which included a sell-out season at Sydney Opera House. For more information about our work and productions email us at info@richardjordanproductions.com
RIFT
A World Premiere
By Gabriel Jason Dean
Directed by Ari Laura Kreith
February 8 - March 3, 2024
Two brothers – one a progressive novelist, the other a convicted murderer and high-ranking member of a white supremacist prison gang – are united through their traumatic childhood. Now adults, these men navigate the edges of their brotherly bond. Are they truly so different? Is it possible to love someone whose beliefs you hate? RIFT is a story of estrangement, ideological divide, and the fight to change our world.
A work of fiction, RIFT is inspired by playwright Gabriel Jason Dean’s relationship with his brother, a currently-incarcerated high-level member of the alt-right. The two had been estranged since Dean’s discovery of his brother’s affiliation in 2010. In creating the piece, Dean reconnected with his brother to explore the roots of their ideological differences and try to find common ground.
“RIFT is a must see…heady and compelling…(it) burns the heart and inspires the senses!”
— Sherri Rase, [Q]onStage
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"Riveting...Hopeful...A parable for our time!
— Ruth Ross, NJ Arts Maven
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"Wonderfully powerful...This show needs to be seen!
— Allen Neuner, Out In Jersey
RIFT, or white lies is produced at Luna Stage Company as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other Partner Theaters are Interact Theater (Philadelphia, PA) and Amphibian Stage (Fort Worth, TX). For more information, please visit nnpn.org.
