“I saw a man on television recently. He said something, and it got me to thinking. It reminded me of something that that happened a while back; that’s what I want to tell you about. The man was from Nepal.”

In India and Nepal, namaste (pronounced "Na-ma-stay") means both hello and goodbye. Namaste Man, the autobiographical by actor Andrew Weems, draws on a childhood that was anything but conventional. Growing up in Africa and Asia, Weems spent his adolescence in houses furnished by the State Department, living a life filled with constant hellos and goodbyes. He experienced a world redolent with adventures, outsized personalities—and mysteries that he would begin to unravel only as an adult.

This work is supported through the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships, funded by the William & Eva Fox Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group.