Finding the Courage to Speak: Eliana Brown on the Quiet Power of Orientation
Production Manager and Assistant to the Director
In the intimate new stage production Orientation, four women walk into the same room—strangers on the surface, but bound by a shared, invisible thread. Behind the closed doors of an Orientation meeting, the facade of control begins to crack, giving way to something far more powerful: honesty.
Eliana Brown, the show’s Production Manager and Assistant to the Director, describes Orientation as a story about survival—not just of trauma, but of the isolation and silence that often follow it.
“Each woman is from a different walk of life—different cultures, different coping mechanisms—but trauma is the equalizer,” Brown explains. “They are all reckoning with what was done to them and how the world has chosen to ignore, distort, or dismiss their pain.”
Through raw, unsparing monologues, the play offers audiences a rare window into private battles and internal reckonings.
“Healing isn’t linear,” Brown says. “It’s messy. It’s personal. But what begins in silence slowly becomes something else: understanding, community, and eventually, reclamation.”
For Brown, the project hits close to home—not only because of its emotional depth, but because it represents a return to her theatrical roots. While she hasn’t always been an avid theatergoer, her journey started on stage in a middle school production of Sleeping Beauty, and she now embraces storytelling through multiple mediums as an actor, writer, and photographer.
“Everyday life is where inspiration lives,” she says. “It’s in small gestures and quiet moments—those blink-and-you-miss-it instances that say something deeper about who we are.”
Brown is especially drawn to the monologues in Orientation, calling them
“intimate windows” into the characters’ lives. “It’s in those moments that the play breathes,” she says. “You’re not just watching a performance—you’re witnessing someone offer you a deeply human truth.”
Follow Eliana’s creative journey on Instagram and TikTok at @eliana_brownie and stay up to date with the show at @orientationplay.
WHO: A group of women reclaiming their identities in the aftermath of abuse
WHAT: Orientation – a powerful new play about truth, survival, and the courage to speak
WHERE: Inside the walls of a modern-day Orientation meeting
WHEN: Set in the present, staged now
