Village West Gallery,  331 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302

What does it mean to be an American, and how much is it worth giving up? In 1902, an Italian peasant girl is detained at Ellis Island. In 2047, an American teenager tries to cross the border into Canada to escape a country ravaged by disease. THE GOLDEN DOOR explores immigration through the ages, and asks what truly makes America great.

Advance registration required, walkups will not be admitted. Registration information will be available soon. 

Upon entry, all attendees will be required to present proof of full vaccination status in paper or digital form, including Docket or Excelsior Pass. 

Village West Gallery is located in downtown Jersey City at 331 Newark Avenue – seven blocks along Newark Avenue from the Grove Street PATH station, and about a mile from the Holland Tunnel.

There are three stairs leading to the entrance of the gallery. The gallery is air conditioned and heated.

For questions about patron services and accessibility, please contact info@arthouseproductions.org.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Lia Romeo is a 2021-2022 fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. Her play The Forest was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and was scheduled to receive a National New Play Network rolling world premiere this season (postponed due to the coronavirus). Her play Sitting and Talking, starring Dan Lauria and Wendie Malick, premiered at Mile Square Theatre and has subsequently been presented by Laguna Playhouse, New Jersey Rep, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and other companies. Other plays have been produced off-Broadway at 59E59 and regionally around the country, and four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. She was the winner of City Theatre’s National Short Playwriting Award, and has been a nominee or a finalist for the Heideman Award, the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kesselring Prize, and the Steinberg Award. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, and Smith & Kraus. She is the associate artistic director with Project Y Theatre Company, and she teaches playwriting at Primary Stages/ESPA and in the M.A. program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She earned her B.A. from Princeton and her M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers/MGSA. She is an alum of Art House's INKubator Program. Website: www.liaromeowriter.com