Join Miami Light Project and Live Arts Miami for a multifaceted storytelling project exploring how guns shape our lives.
Step into the world of Arms Around America by Dan Froot & Company, a powerful and thought-provoking performance that opens a window into the lives of American families navigating their complex relationships with guns. Through a constellation of diverse stories, the show delves into how fear, love, power, identity, and entitlement intersect with gun culture, all set against the backdrop of socio-economic upheaval and cultural tensions.
Staged as a live radio theater broadcast, this immersive evening-length performance features four actors voicing dozens of characters amidst a forest of microphones. Dan Froot creates captivating live foley sound effects using an eclectic array of everyday objects, adding an authentic auditory dimension to the storytelling.
In a unique twist, eight audience members will join the performers on stage at a kitchen table, providing real-time commentary and becoming part of the dynamic dialogue.
Don’t miss an unforgettable evening of performance, reflection, and conversation about the roles guns play in our society—beyond the weapons themselves.
Dan Froot is an award-winning producer, composer, choreographer, writer, saxophonist,
dancer, actor, and director. Froot’s work has toured since 1983 and been presented by leading art centers across the U.S., Europe, Africa, and South America. Awards include a Bessie (New York Dance & Performance Award), a City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, and a Foundation for Jewish Culture Playwriting Fellowship. Froot has worked with Dan Hurlin, Yoshiko Chuma, Ping Chong, David Dorfman, Mabou Mines, Ralph Lemon, Cornerstone Theater Company, and Victoria Marks, among others. He is Research Professor at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.
Froot is founder of Dan Froot & Company (DF&Co), a theater troupe comprised of award-winning actors, known for their collaborative approach to theater-making, and for engaging deeply with communities and partners, putting art at the center of civic discourse. Selected past DF&Co works include, Pang!, a triptych of audio dramas about hunger in America, Who’s Hungry, a series of adult puppet plays about individuals living with food insecurity in Los Angeles, and Shlammer, a vaudevillian Jewish gangster farce.
To request materials in accessible format and accommodation to attend an event, please contact Eventz Paul at 305.576.4350 or email us, at least five days in advance to initiate your request.
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We are accessible and assistive listening devices are available. To request materials in accessible format and accommodation to attend an event, please contact Eventz Paul at 305.576.4350 or email us, at least five days in advance to initiate your request.
Eventz Paul is currently the Technical Director and Productions Manager at Miami Light Project. He has been a part of this organization since 2011. He participated in Miami Light Project’s first class of the Technical Fellowship Program held at The Light Box. He joined this program hoping to improve his existing theater skills. He received training from experts in the industry that mentored and further his theater technical skills. Now, he has successfully used his professional knowledge and has had the opportunity to work with various arts organizations and venues throughout Miami including Miami Theater Center, National Young Arts Foundation, the Colony Theatre and many more. He has become an instructor and conducts audiovisual classes to incoming technical fellows.
Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.
