Ironbound
Oakland Theater Project
​FLAX
May 2025

Lighting/Scenic: Ashley Munday
Costumes: Bethany Deal
Sound: Ray Archie

‘Astonishing craftsmanship…finely calibrated performances…everyone’s a klutz and a dunderhead, but all her fools are wise’ - Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle

'Under sensitive direction by Emilie Whelan, Ramirez is spellbinding as she faces off with each of these men, emotionally revealing her history, sometimes with funny barbs, and the compromises she had to make to survive' - Local News Matters

'A raw and intense psychological portrait of the often-ignored personal struggles of immigrant women. Immigrants, who we may see every day in any city waiting on a wrought iron bench for a bus. ..Under Whelan’s perceptive direction…[Ironbound] mirrors the internal fight for dignity for those caught in the margins…A must see.'  - Patricia Morin, Front Row Review