Back by popular demand! Rescheduled performance Tuesday, February 10th, 7:30PM at Stage Left Studio. Reserve your FREE tickets at http://facewebsites.com/stageleftstudio/ticket.php?id=173
I will be performing the role of Helen Hollewinski in a staged reading of a very special play that speaks directly to our present tense in black and white, a play about race inspired by a real event. Before there was Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Trayvon Martin, there was Vivian Strong. The time is 1969, the place is one of the most segregated cities in the North. The music is polka, rock, jazz, and Motown. Two teenage girls, one white, one black, are about to have their lives changed by an unlikely partnership between an old accordion player and a jazz drummer. The play is “My Occasion of Sin,” by Monica Bauer, directed by Dev Bondarin. Cast members include Joan Anderson, J.Dolan Byrnes, Russell Jordan, and Quinn Warren.
“My Occasion of Sin” premiered at Urban Stages in 2012 where playwright Monica Bauer received their Emerging Playwright Award. The play has also been produced at Shelterbelt Theater in Nebraska, where it won awards for Best New Script from the Theater Arts Guild and Omaha Arts and Entertainment Awards, and at Detroit Repertory Theater, where it ran for six weeks in 2014.
The playwright has revised the play, and Cheryl King is producing two staged readings at Stage Left Studio, with a $10 suggested donation, as a benefit for two of the playwright Bauer’s New York theater friends, playwrights Andrew Rothkin and Duncan Pflaster, and their roommate Kim Jones, who recently lost everything when their Queens apartment went up in flames.
There will be two staged readings, both at Stage Left Studio, 214 W. 30th, between 7th and 8th Avenues
Saturday January 24th at 2pm
Monday January 26th at 7:30
Suggested donation of $10 to benefit the GoFundMe campaigns of Duncan Pflaster, Andrew Rothkin, and Kim Jones.
Reservations highly recommended: www.stageleftstudio.net