“When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally remain in the country and pursue the future he imagines.”

TEATRO ESPEJO PRESENTS

SANCTUARY CITY

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October 10-26, 2025

Fridays & Saturdays at 7pm

Sundays at 2pm

*The performance runs approximately 1 hour and 35 minutes. No intermission.

LOCATION
Fat Elephant Theatre
9845 Horn Rd #100
Sacramento, CA 95827

ABOUT THE VENUE: Conveniently located just minutes from the I-50 exit at Bradshaw and a short 15-minute drive from downtown and midtown Sacramento, Fat Elephant Theatre is easily accessible and offers ample parking. For more info about accessibility at the venue, contact them at (916) 706-2000.

TICKETS
Tickets can be purchased online in advance. Please note, our Teatro Espejo ticket link will redirect you to the FAT ELEPHANT THEATRE ticket/box office website. (Tickets may be available for purchase at the door, pending availability. We recommend securing your ticket online in advance.)

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SANCTUARY CITY by Pulitzer Prize Winner, Martyna Majok

Directed by Nicole C. Limón
Part of our 50th Anniversary Season!

ABOUT THE PLAY

In post-9/11 Newark, New Jersey, two teenagers who were brought to America as children become one another’s sanctuaries from harsh circumstances. When G becomes naturalized, she and B hatch a plan to marry so that he may legally remain in the country and pursue the future he imagines for his life. But as time hurtles on and complications mount, the young friends find that this act challenges and fractures the closest relationship either has ever had.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her Broadway debut play, Cost of Living, which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages, and the libretto for Gatsby: An American Myth, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett.

Other awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, Arthur Miller Foundation Legacy Award, The Obie Award for Playwriting, The Hull-Warriner Award, The Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting, The Sun Valley Playwrights Residency Award, Off Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award, The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, The Hermitage Greenfield Prize, as the first female recipient in drama, The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office, The Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, The Lanford Wilson Prize, The Lilly Award's Stacey Mindich Prize, Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play from The Helen Hayes Awards, Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, ANPF Women's Invitational Prize, David Calicchio Prize, Global Age Project Prize, NYTW 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools. She was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Martyna is currently adapting Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” for the Broadway stage. She has developed TV projects for HBO and is writing a number of feature films.