| SheNYC Theater Festival Opens Next Week with Grace Aki's To Free A Mockingbird | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 02:12 pm EDT 07/20/22 | |
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| SheNYC Theater Festival Opens Next Week with Grace Aki's To Free A Mockingbird Followed By a Talkback with Broadway Radio The 2022 SheNYC Theater Festival will open on Tuesday, July 26th at 7pm EST with a performance of Grace Aki’s To Free A Mockingbird, followed by a talkback with Broadway Radio. The Festival will then run through August 7, 2022 at the East Village’s Connelly Theater with both an in-person audience and select digital performances of nine original full-length works by gender-marginalized playwrights and composers. The Festival will present two new full-length musicals: Safe Hands by Alara Magritte and Daniel Rosen, and The Waiting by EmmaLee Kidwell and Maria Andreoli. In addition to To Free a Mockingbird, it will also present 6 additional full-length plays: Dream a Little Dream of Me by Kay Kemp, Hack by Jordyn Stoessel, One Day Down by Samantha Toy Ozeas, Pot Odds by Gabrielle Wagner, Sheepwell by Margaret Caterisano, and Gray by Kristy Thomas. Thomas is 2022’s New Play Resident – a program by which SheNYC invites an alumni writer to return to the Festival to develop a brand-new play from scratch. All other SheNYC shows are selected after a rigorous, blind, months-long selection process out of over 300 submissions from around the globe. Tickets to the performances will be available in June, and you can learn more about each show at www.SheNYCArts.org/She-NYC. All performances will comply with state and local COVID-19 safety guidelines. For more information on SheNYC’s sister festivals, SheLA and SheATL visit www.SheNYCArts.org. About the Shows Dream a Little Dream of Me By Kay Kemp In an old, achy house in the suburbs of Detroit, paid for with sweat and tears, Colleen, an adult who has just recently left home behind, returns to take care of Priscilla, her aging mother. Through their conversations and Priscilla’s “episodes”, as well as the intervention of the malevolent spirit known only as Angel-Boy, we see the toll a sickness can take not only on a person’s mind, but on a family’s bonds. To Free A Mockingbird by Grace Aki To Free a Mockingbird is a combination of storytelling and stand-up, with heart. We follow Grace’s family’s journey across the sea and through the south. An examination of ‘Gone with the Wind’, family secrets and how our stories get told. To Free A Mockingbird is a vulnerable and daring piece, filled with Grace’s effortless humor and honesty. Generational trauma is funny…right? This is her story and maybe yours as well. Hack by Jordyn Stoessel Hack is the story of a young woman who achieves YouTube stardom after her “What I Eat in a Day” video goes viral. As a budding, unqualified wellness vlogger, she is sponsored by a fasting clinic to embark on a month-long supervised water fast. A play that explores themes of disordered eating and America’s obsession with diet culture, Hack is a shitshow that throat-chops the modern influencer. Gray by Kristy Thomas Lights up on two Black boys: one tries to prepare the other for what lies beyond. Beginning with a crime scene Anytown, USA, the boys bond over a game of basketball: it’s universal, and it’s safe. Gray tells different stories by different people and perspectives of issues that face Black men and women in this country, at present and historically. The experience reminds of a general theme of history continuing to repeat itself and brings another shining light on the fact that this life is not clearly black or white, but rather we live in shades of “Gray.” One Day Down by Samantha Toy Ozeas Days away from the 2016 National Mock Trial Tournament and moments away from choking each other to death, high school seniors Marion and Simon do all they can to keep their team on task for their upcoming tournament. After receiving an oddly violent practice case in the mail, the team begins to fall apart at the seams, and a larger vengeance plot rises to the surface. One Day Down comments on the stigma and toll of speaking up against sexual violence, and the paranoia inflicted on survivors. Pot Odds by Gabrielle Wagner Mann When conservative, white Southern-belle Natalie arrives in New York City to collect the belongings of her dead twin sister, she meets Kendra — and learns that her estranged sister’s roommate is not only Black, but is more than just a roommate. She must confront her sister’s choices, as well as her own fears and prejudices and they both challenge each other in unexpected ways. Panic attacks, pot brownies and pocket aces help them deal with grief, guilt and an unexpected guest. All-in with one card to come, will they stay at odds or make the right read on each other? Safe Hands, a new musical by Alara Magritte & Daniel Rosen Safe Hands is a bold new musical that takes an honest look at life before Roe. v. Wade. In 1956 New Jersey, newlywed Lydia moves to the suburbs, ready to become a perfect happy housewife like her neighbor Bunnie. But when Lydia learns that Bunnie received an abortion at an underground clinic on the far side of town, she is pulled into a secret that threatens to shatter her carefully crafted life. Set against a soaring folk rock score, Safe Hands examines the hidden lives of women and the communities they forge behind closed doors. Sheepwell by Margaret Rose Caterisano Wattle and her daughter, Sarah, live on the rural Highway 29 just outside the small college town of Troy in Alabama. Wattle is awakened in the wee hours of the morning by a naked man, Thomas, stumbling around in her back yard. She clothes and feeds the stranger, and gives him a place to spend the night. She, Sarah, and Thomas discuss the pros and cons of leaping to assumptions and jumping into relationships until Thomas decides it is time to leave — but it won’t be that easy. Sheepwell is a very dark comedy about the importance of first impressions and false assumptions. The Waiting, a new musical by EmmaLee Kidwell and Maria Isabella Andreoli The Waiting is a folk musical that centers around widowed mother Chlo Evans shortly after the disappearance of her young daughter, Willow. As Chlo searches for her daughter, she discovers a parallel universe, The InBetween, where lost souls wait to pass through to the afterlife. Here Chlo learns that people she’s lost in life are not as far gone as they may seem. As Chlo’s understanding of her reality bends, will she be able to go beyond the pain of her loss, or will her soul stay trapped by the padlock of grief? About SheNYC Arts SheNYC Arts is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization devoted to helping gender-marginalized artists take on leadership roles in the entertainment industry. SheNYC produces Summer Theater Festivals in New York City, Los Angeles, and Atlanta annually, as well as CreateHER, a semester-long program for high school students interested in careers as playwrights and producers. Through additional educational and community engagement programs, including The Broadway Women’s Alliance, SheNYC aims to make the theater industry a better place for all people. Learn more at www.SheNYCArts.org. |
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