A Special Brown Club in NY Theater Event:
"This Much I Know"

PLUS POST-SHOW CONVERSATION WITH THE DIRECTOR

Kick off the fall theater season with another exciting Brown Club in New York event, the New York premiere of This Much I Know by Jonathan Spector (Tony-Award winning Eureka Day). Directed by Hayley Finn ’96 Am’97, the play by has been hailed as “enthralling and exhilarating” by DC Theater Arts, “deeply funny and refreshingly thought-provoking” by Washington DC Paper, and “an invigorating theatrical brainteaser” in The Guardian’s 4-star review.

Tickets will only be distributed by a Brown Club representative at the theater from 6:15pm to 6:45pm. Please do NOT go to the bus office and please arrive no later than 6:45.

A psychology professor's search for his missing wife launches us on a time-hopping fugue, weaving together the stories of Stalin's daughter defecting to America, the son of a white supremacist growing to doubt the beliefs he was raised with, and the secret despair of becoming an accidental killer. Playwright Jonathan Spector, whose “Eureka Day” won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, was inspired by the book Thinking, Fast and Slow by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman about the science of decision-making.

Following the performance, theater producer and Brown Club board member Jeremy Handelman will moderate a discussion with director Hayley Finn.

Theater J Artistic Director Hayley Finn BA ’96, MA ’97 is an accomplished director and producer with over twenty-five years of experience in professional theatre across all aspects of the profession, including producing, directing, casting, education, fundraising, and has been instrumental in creating national partnerships for theatres across the country. Prior to joining Theater J, she was the Associate Artistic Director at the Playwrights’ Center, where she worked with some of the nation’s leading playwrights and, in her tenure, produced over 1,000 workshops. She also served as a Co-Artistic Director of Red Eye Theater from 2019-2023 where she co-produced and cerated the New Works 4 Weeks Festival—an annual four-week festival that commissions 11 artists each year to make new performance works—and co-led the fundraising and development of a new 150-seat black box theater in Minneapolis. She has directed nationally and internationally at dozens of highly regarded theaters and festivals. Finn also was Assistant Director on several Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge. Finn is an Alumna of the Drama League Director’s Program, recipient of the Ruth Easton Fellowship, TCG Future Leader Grant, National Endowment for the Arts support, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. She received her BA and MA from Brown University.

Questions? Email: patti.galluzzi@brownnyc.org