A Nashville Story Garden collaboration at OZ Arts Nashville
March 27 - April 6, 2025!
Photo by Tiffany Bessire
“Ambitious, surprising and wildly imaginative, HUMAN RESOURCES marks an auspicious moment in Nashville theater — and an exciting collaboration between Nashville Story Garden and Oz Arts. Don’t miss it!”
Journey through a dizzying cubicle maze in this immersive theatrical experience full of comically corporate doublespeak, absurdly endless paperwork, and more hilariously surreal realities of the American workplace.
Nashville’s most adventurous theater artists join forces to take on corporate culture in this site-specific production designed for OZ Arts’ expansive warehouse. Lively physical interactions, surprising humor, and eerily familiar nine-to-five horrors combine to create an inventive, disorienting, and thought-provoking performance you won’t soon forget.
“Human Resources is a perfect example of what happens when artists get the support they need to push boundaries. This show is a testament to the power of collaboration and the unexpected places Nashville’s arts scene can go when the right people come together.”
Read Douglas Corzine’s Nashville Scene article here
Devised and developed by Nashville Story Garden with direction by Lauren Shouse and text by Nate Eppler, Human Resources uses incisive wit and clever visuals to dismantle assumptions about what to expect from the professional workplace.
Cast: Lauren Berst*, Geoff Davin, Josh Inocalla, Bakari King, Candace-Omnira, Joe Mobley, Wesley Paine, Tamara Todres*, Meggan Utech, and Ayla Williams.
Production Team: Chris Ammons (Graphic Design), Jessica Anderson & Jacob Anderson (Video Production), Diana DeGarmo (Set), Phillip Franck (Lighting), Madeleine Hicks (Props), Tasha AF Lemley (Sound), David Long III (ASM), Melodie Madden Adams (Costumes), Darci Nalepa Elam (Assistant Director), Lauren Shouse (Director), Lacy Tier (Stage Manager), Alex Useted (Production Manager)
* member Actors Equity Association