Huntington Theatre Company’s We Had a World Is a Homecoming for Two CFA Alums
Actor Eva Kaminsky (CFA’95) and director Keira Fromm (CFA’98) return to the place where they began their careers
Eva Kaminsky (CFA’95) in a scene from We Had a World, a dramatic comedy by Josh Harmon about three generations of a family, produced by the Huntington Theatre Company. The show is running at the Calderwood Pavilion through March 15. Photo by Annielly Camargo
Huntington Theatre Company’s We Had a World Is a Homecoming for Two CFA Alums
Actor Eva Kaminsky (CFA’95) and director Keira Fromm (CFA’98) return to the place where they began their careers
This article was originally published in Bostonia on February 17, 2026. By John O’Rourke
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When actor Eva Kaminsky began rehearsals last month for the Huntington Theatre Company’s latest production, We Had a World, she was fulfilling a long-held ambition. “I’ve been wanting to work at the Huntington since I graduated, but until now, I’d never had the chance,” says Kaminsky (CFA’95). “This is very full circle for me.” Kaminsky, who has appeared in regional theaters across the country, has had small parts in film and television. She played Lady Mildmay in season three of HBO’s The Gilded Age and has a cameo in the Oscar-nominated film Song Sung Blue. When she learned about the Huntington’s production of We Had a World, she contacted the director, Keira Fromm (CFA’98). The two had known one another as CFA students and had stayed loosely in touch on social media.
“When I saw that the show was happening, I wound up writing Keira on Instagram and saying, ‘This is so exciting that you’re doing this show at the Huntington, and if and when you come to New York, I’d love to read for you,’” Kaminsky says. “She wrote me right back and said, ‘I’d love to see you,’ and that’s how it got started.”
We Had a World,by Tony Award–nominated playwright Joshua Harmon, features three members of a family—son, mother, and grandmother—confronting a long-kept family secret that comes to light. Kaminsky plays the mother, Ellen, who had to learn how to be a parent and take care of herself, because her own mother was often out of control.
We Had a World is a memory play based on Harmon’s own family. As it begins, a dying grandmother asks her grandson, Josh, to write a play about their family and to make it “as bitter and vitriolic as possible.” What ensues is a play that is by turns dramatic and funny, with the character Josh occasionally addressing the audience directly, filling them in on moments from his childhood and adult life with his mother and grandmother.