Meet the Cartozians
February 18 - March 21, 2027
By Talene Monahon
Directed by Huntington Artistic Director Loretta Greco
A co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Content Advisories: Coming soon!
Notable Dates:
Press opening: 2/24 at 7:00 pm
Open Captions – Tuesday, March 9th, 2027 @ 7 PM→
About the play:
2026 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST!
Part riveting historical drama, part razor-sharp satire, Talene Monahon’s Meet the Cartozians boldly imagines an untold chapter of American history. In the 1920s, an Armenian man fights for legal recognition in the courts. A century later, a new generation embraces pop culture’s appetite for influence and fame. A runaway sensation in its New York premiere, Meet the Cartozians is a layered, complex, surprising, and stylish exploration of immigration, accountability, roots, and race. How do we decide who gets to belong — and at what price?
Born in Belmont, Monahon returns home to celebrate the Armenian American community of Boston in this bold and provocative play, in a new production led by Artistic Director Loretta Greco.
Talene Monahon
Playwright
Talene Monahon
Talene Monahon is a Boston born playwright of Armenian and Irish descent. Her play Meet the Cartozians premiered at Second Stage in October 2025, directed by David Cromer and was an NYTimes’ Critic’s Pick as well as ranking on Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Plays of 2025,” and TheaterMania’s “Top 5 Plays of 2025.” Other plays include: The Good John Proctor (dir. Caitlin Sullivan, The New Yorker’s “Top 10 Best Plays of 2023”), Jane Anger (dir. Jess Chayes, 2022 Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Nominee), and How to Load a Musket (dir. Jaki Bradley, TheaterMania’s “The 10 Best Theater Productions of 2020”).
Loretta Greco
Director
Loretta Greco
Loretta Greco is The Huntington’s Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director. Her extensive national directing credits include The Hills of California, The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, Prayer for the French Republic, and Taylor Mac’s world premiere of Joy and Pandemic at The Huntington, the premieres of runboyrun and A Park in Our House at New York Theatre Workshop, The Story, Lackawanna Blues, and Two Sisters and a Piano at The Public Theater, Sweat, The Realistic Joneses, Speed-the-Plow, and Blackbird at American Conservatory Theater, and productions for California Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others.
Talene Monahon: Meaning in Armenian
Playwright Talene Monahon talked with Andrea Martin, the Tony-winning actor who originated the roles of Markrid and Rose in Meet the Cartozians, about the play’s development and impact.
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From playwright Talene Monahon:
“Ever since I wrote Meet the Cartozians, it has been my dream that the play would come to Boston. I was raised in the Armenian community in the Boston suburbs – attending nursery school at the Armenian Sisters’ Academy, going to summer camp at Camp Haiastan, food shopping at Sevan Bakery and Eastern Lamejun. In writing this play, I was trying to capture something about the people in my Armenian community – their humor and warmth, their ferocious devotion to culture, and their fight against erasure. To bring the play to Boston is very much to bring it home.”
From Artistic Director Loretta Greco:
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a writer dig at the thorny foundational questions of identity and the price of belonging with such a deliciously shrewd eye towards both our buried pasts and the fluid social coding of our present — to create a provocative, wholehearted, and hilarious evening of theatre. I’m thrilled to welcome Talene back to Boston to share this magnificent play with her hometown and to bring the story into conversation with the remarkable Armenian community here that helped shape her.”
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