Simu Liu, Micaela Diamond, More to Perform in Stories From the City of Immigrants at Symphony Space

Simu Liu, Micaela Diamond, More to Perform in Stories From the City of Immigrants at Symphony Space

Arian Moayed will host the event celebrating the role immigrants play in New York City's past, present, and future.

April 08, 2026 By Meg Masseron

Obie-winning theatre company Waterwell will present Stories From the City of Immigrants at Symphony Space April 20, an evening celebrating the vital role immigrants play in New York City's past, present, and future.

Arian Moayed will host the event, which will feature monologues and stories curated by Obie-winning director and Waterwell Artistic Director Lee Sunday Evans (Oratorio for Living Things, The Ford/Hill Project) and oral historian Liza Zapol.

The lineup of performers is set to include host Moayed, Roberta Colindrez (A League of Their Own), Micaela Diamond (Parade), Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell (Only Murders in the Building), Simu Liu (Oh, Mary!; Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Sunita Mani (GLOW), Justin H. Min (The Umbrella Academy), Sepideh Moafi (The Pitt), Laith Nakli (Ramy), Tramell Tillman (Severance), and Pej Vahdat (The Old Man). The women-led samba reggae drumline marching band FogoAzul will provide live music throughout the evening.

Zapol sourced the evening’s stories from books like Hamilton Holt’s The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves (1906) and Saundra Amrhein’s Green Card Stories (2011), as well as oral history collections from the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project, Center for Brooklyn History’s Muslims in Brooklyn project, the Irish in New York Oral History Project at Queens College, the Washington Heights Oral History Collection at New York Public Library, the New Sanctuary Coalition Testimony Project, the Queens Memory Project, and We Are Brooklyn: Immigrant Voices from the Brooklyn College Listening Project.

Stories From the City of Immigrants will be recorded for national broadcast on Symphony Space’s syndicated Selected Shorts radio show and podcast.

Tickets are priced on a sliding scale starting at $10. Click here for tickets.