Faun, a play, is for anyone searching for their belonging. In this tale, a young girl’s hopes of knowing who she’s meant to be are crushed when a malevolent force keeps her from her own tummy magic. Where she once found refuge in a nearby magical wood, the girl, now a woman, finds herself lost in the wilderness of life. Reckoning with who she is and how she ended up in this place, the woman encounters an even greater force of nature, one that guides her in her dreams to a mystical place where she learns that real magic is never truly lost.

Faun, a new play written by Delaney Wamer, directed by Roweena Mackay, and designed by Ashley Brady is a staged reading featuring Rachel Pazos, Victoria Ojeda-Gomez, Gracey Richardson, Andrea Fuentes, and Scarlett Manzo as the Faun.

Please join me post-reading for a talk back where we’ll hear from the cast and director.

WHERE
Dixon Studio Theatre, Drama Room 116
University of Arizona College of Fine Arts School of Theatre, Film, & Television
1025 N Olive Rd, Tucson, AZ 85721

DATE/TIME
Saturday, April 11
1 pm MST ~ Free

Admission is free but please RSVP so that we can prepare the space. There is no need to add your cell ph # to the registration, just your name & email. Thank you!

Produced by Delaney Wamer, this project is supported in part by a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, an agency of the State of Arizona, and with in-kind support of the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts School of Theatre, Film, and Television. A special thank you to all who have supported and encouraged me to bring this work forward so that others may find their belonging too…Rick Wamer, Rose Wilkerson, Roweena Mackay, Tim Hussey, the Haden Institute, and the Celia Center for Adoptees and the Foster community. Thank you for believing in me and for helping others remember exactly who they are!

Faun first appeared to me in a dream offering their help. I refused the offer. It wasn’t until awakening that I realized how much assistance I truly needed to guide me out of my fog of lostness. As a late-discovery adoptee, someone that finds out late in life that their parent or parents are not their biological family, I had a lot to unpack. Confronting a complete obliteration of identity and personal narrative is no easy task. Intuition was ever present even as a child, but had been crushed by a devouring mother who hid my true identity. She was the queen of her domain, and for anyone that unknowingly tried to expose her it was, “Off with their head!” If that weren’t enough, this malevolence enacted additional chaos and trauma making her charge the changeling she needed her to be. Self-doubt followed for decades, until Faun made their entrance. What followed was a cascade of events, dreams, writings, and awakenings that helped me discover that we are never completely lost, that deep within is a true self, one that cannot be erased nor hidden and knows that their belonging isn’t an outward design but a inner journey.

ADOPTEE/FOSTER RESOURCE
Celia Center, celiacenter.org - a 501c3 non-profit organization offering online and in-person support groups, resources, education, and events for all members of the foster care and adoption constellation. Visit celia-center-adoption-constellation.mn.co to join their Mighty Network platform for free support group participation and more. Please visit my resources page for an evolving list of where I’ve received support or have found inspiration.