NANNIES OF
NEW YORK CITY
by
Katie Brook & Katiana Gonçales Rangel (USA and BRAZIL)
September 1, 2025
By Katie Brook (NYC) & Katiana Gonçales Rangel (BRAZIL)
Co-Produced by New York City Players
Photo Credit: Solomon Shaw
Photo Credit: Solomon Shaw
Nannies of New York City By Katie Brook + Katiana Gonçales Rangel (USA & Brazil) A documentary theatre work by and about professional nannies in New York City. In 2024, theatre artists Katie Brook and Katiana Gonçales Rangel interviewed a group of immigrant childcare workers about the joys and challenges of their jobs, shaping these stories into monologues that the nannies proudly performed themselves. In 2025, in response to the escalating threat to immigrants, Brook and Rangel re-cast the piece with esteemed, white, American citizen actors to continue to share these stories. Created by Katie Brook and Katiana Gonçales Rangel, in collaboration with Inde Ramsaran, Rocío Piamonte, Maryory Rodriguez and other nannies from Latin America and the Caribbean. Featuring Jim Fletcher, David Gould, Richard Maxwell, Dick Toth and Ben Williams. Song by Nana Crist.
About The Artists
Katie Brook
Katie Brook is an experimental theater director focused on new plays and devised work. Recent directing credits include ISLANDER (New Georges, HERE) The Cherry Orchard (Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh), and Liza Birkenmeier’s Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova). For many years, Katie worked for the oral history project, StoryCorps, and has also developed audio dramas, including The MS Phoenix Rising (Trish Harnetiaux, Playwrights Horizons). She received her MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, and is currently a Teaching Professor in Directing at Tufts University’s School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies.
Katiana Rangel
Katiana Gonçales Rangel is a performer, director and educator from Brazil based in NYC, and creating independent theater work since 1998. Katiana’s most recent work Ama The Diver (2024), in collaboration with Jim Fletcher and the cellist Lori Goldston, was performed in NYC, Portland and Seattle. Katiana has been creating documentary theater work with immigrant New Yorkers since 2014 with Incoming Theater Division (ITD), a branch of the company New York City Players, and has been one of ITD directors since 2020. In 2024, the group performed La Casa de Bernarda Alba in Spanish language directed by Richard Maxwell.