Wednesday, April 8, 2015

bareNaked Reading Series (WHO'S WHO, Playwright)


Here's an inside look at our featured playwright for the upcoming bareNaked Reading Series on Tuesday, April 14th!  For more info visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/1558213017786405/

AMINA HENRY is a poet-playwright and teaching artist. Recent productions include: Happily Ever at Brooklyn College, An American Family Takes a Lover, produced by The Cell: a 21stCentury Salon and presented by Theatre for the New City (New York, NY), Water produced by Drama of Works (Brooklyn, NY) and The Minstrel Show, produced as part of the 2013 Bring a Weasel and a Pint of Your Own Blood Festival 13th Street Theater/CSC. Her work has been developed/presented at: Little Theater at Dixon Place, The Flea, Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the 2013 Black Swan Lab Series (Ashland, OR), Kitchen Dog Theater, The Brick, HERE Arts Center, The Cell: a 21st Century Salon, HERO Theatre, the Hive Theater, Shakespeare’s Sister Company, the Bowery Poetry Club, Brooklyn College and Texas State University. She was a 2012-2013 Core Apprentice playwright at The Playwrights Center and a 2013 Finalist for the Leah Ryan FEWW Playwriting Prize for her play Bully. She was a featured playwright at the 2013 Black and Latino Playwrights Conference at Texas State University. Publications include Hello, My Name Is Joe in the compilation 24 Gun Control Plays, published by NoPassport Press. Amina Henry is a graduate of Yale University, NYU’s Performance Studies MA program and Brooklyn College’s MFA Playwriting program.

BULLY By Amina Henry
Directed by Shira-Lee Shalit
Cast and musical guest to be announced soon…
 
Westbeth Community Room - 55 Bethune Street (or enter at 155 Bank Street, 1 block south)

Tuesday, April 14, 2015
7:30pm doors, 8:00pm performance
$5 suggested donation, includes refreshments
Beer sponsor: The Brooklyn Brewery

Please RSVP to confirm your reservation as space is limited. To RSVP send an email with the number attending and your contact info to: barefootrsvp@aol.com

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