In his one-man show Dishwasher Dreams, Aladdin Ullah draws on his father’s life experiences as a steamship worker from East Bengal who jumped ship and made his way to New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, settled in Harlem in the 1930s, worked for years as a dishwasher and line-cook in downtown restaurants, and for a time in the late 1940s ran one of the city’s first Indian restaurants in Manhattan’s theatre district. In his performance, Ullah recalls his parents’ attempts to raise him Muslim in Spanish Harlem and his own determination to follow his own path – through Hip Hop and graffiti art to the comedy circuit.
Dishwasher Dreams is written and performed by Aladdin Ullah; directed by Gabriel Vega Weissman; accompanied on the tabla by Avirodh Sharma. Don’t miss the world premiere of Dishwasher Dreams!
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