May 28, 2025 Tamid of Hebrew College GROW Session: “Our Class Lessons on Understanding”

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We are pleased to offer one more GROW session this spring: “When Neighbors Meet: Our Class Lessons on Understanding” with Director Igor Golyak and Producer Sara Stackhouse.

We hope you will spend an hour with us for this and future programs in our series, to gather, reflect, observe, and wrestle with topics that will deepen your Jewish learning.

When Neighbors Meet: “Our Class” Lessons on Understanding

Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | 12-1 PM EST/9-10 AM PST | Zoom
Program: >When Neighbors Meet: Our Class Lessons on Understanding
Instructor: Director Igor Golyak and Producer Sara Stackhouse
Cost: FREE

The play Our Class, a celebrated off-Broadway production retells the story of ten classmates — five Jewish and five Catholic Poles — grow up as friends and neighbors, then face the awakening of hatred, with life and death consequences. Inspired by real life events surrounding a 1941 pogrom in a small Polish village, this shocking, timely story follows their lives from childhood through eight decades.

Join Our Class director Igor Golyak, the Ukrainian-born founder of Arlekin who came to the United States as a Jewish refugee, and his producing partner Sara Stackhouse as they share questions explored and wrestled with in the play, with stories and lessons learned during their journey producing this stunning, timely piece.

Our Class is playing at Boston’s Calderwood Pavilion June 13-22, 2025.

Igor Golyak, Director

Igor Golyak is the founder and producing artistic director of Arlekin Players Theatre & Zero Gravity (zero-G) Theater Lab in Boston. He most recently adapted and directed a site-specific US premiere of The Dybbuk at The Vilna Shul in Boston, and the New York premiere of Our Class by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), a featured production of the 2024 Under the Radar Festival, which will transfer to Classic Stage Company off-Broadway in Manhattan September 2024, followed directly by his adaptation of The Merchant of Venice with the same cast. His recent acclaimed production of The Dybbuk by Roy Chen starred Andrey Burkovskiy and Yana Gladkikh in its US premiere. In 2022, Golyak conceived and directed The Orchard starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht off-Broadway, which then toured to Boston.

Sara Stackhouse

Sara Stackhouse is a creative producer and specialist in strategy and organizational development. She is producing director of Arlekin Players Theatre and Zero Gravity (zero-G) Theater Lab. She was co-executive producer of the premiere of Our Class at BAM in 2024, and its transfer to Manhattan, followed by The Merchant of Venice, both at Classic Stage Company in fall 2024. She was co-executive producer of The Orchard with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht in 2022. In 2024, she produced the US premiere of The Dybbuk by Roy Chen as adapted by Igor Golyak with Dr. Rachel Merrill Moss, and in 2023 produced Just Tell No One at Lincoln Center and The US premiere of The Gaaga by Sasha Denisova.