- By Civic Ensemble
- Entertainment
The readings will be Wednesday, November 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Sacred Root Kava Bar and Thursday, November 10, at 7:30 p.m. at Cornell University's Schwartz Center for Performing and Media Arts' Film Forum. Both performances are free and open to the public.
This production of AFTER ORLANDO will feature ten short plays by Deborah Laufer, Joan Lipkin, Andres Lustgarte, Jennifer Maisel, Chiori Miyagawa, Riti Sacheva, Lisa Schlesinger, Arturo Soria, Caridad Svich, and Ken Urban. The readings will be directed by Samuel Blake, Gabriella Carr, Carolina Osorio Gil, Kiefer Harrington, J. Michael Kinsey, and Rosalie Purvis and will feature an ensemble of actors, including Alisar Awwad, Sherron Brown, Sarah K. Chalmers, Tyree James, Sahar Tavakoli, Irving Torres, Sara Warner, and Sylvie Yntema.
AFTER ORLANDO is an international playwright-driven theatre action including over seventy playwrights from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Africa, and Australia. Plays have been specifically written and curated in response to the Pulse Nightclub shooting this June and will be read at over 40 venues across the country and in the UK throughout the fall.
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