Reading will be held at The Drama League's Studio Lab, 32 Avenue of the Americas, NYC (Tribeca). Tickets are FREE but reservations are required, as space is strictly limited.
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DITMAS PARK
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ROSE KALIVODA
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JILLIAN MACKLIN
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KATHRYN ROSSETTER
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MICHAEL STAHL-DAVID
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CHINAZA UCHE
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and ALBA QUEZADA, our Narrator
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Reading will be held at The Drama League's Studio Lab,
32 Avenue of the Americas, NYC (Tribeca).
Tickets are FREE but reservations are required, as space is strictly limited.
Creative Team
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ERICA MANN (Playwright) is a Queens-based playwright and screenwriter. She was a semi-finalist for a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship, and her play DITMAS PARK received special consideration from the subcommittee of readers at the American Playwriting Foundation for the 2018 Relentless Award. Her play, PROCEED TO HIGHLIGHTED ROUTE, will receive a developmental production at the Acadiana Repertory Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana in December 2019. She is a member of Pipeline Playlab's Class of 2020 and Gingold Theatrical's 2019-2020 Speakers' Corner Writers' Group. MFA in Playwriting from The New School, 2018.
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LAURA DUPPER (Director) is a NYC based director originally from Tennessee. She has worked at Signature Theatre, Second Stage Theater, Columbia University, LCT3, Ars Nova, and Dallas Theater Center; she has also worked with Playwrights Realm, Barrington Stage, and P73. She has assisted and worked on several Off-Broadway productions and has had the privilege of working closely with artistic heroes like Lila Neugebauer, Evan Cabnet, Will Eno, and Tracy Letts. She recently directed the premiere of Dylan Guerra’s LET’S HAVE A SEANCE at HERE Sublet Co-Op Series and FIND HIM at Ars Nova's 2019 ANT Fest. She is currently developing a new play with Really, Really Theatre Group. BFA Southern Methodist University.
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ALI SKYE BENNET (Producer) has been writing, performing, and creating theatre since childhood. She is the Artistic Line Producer at The Drama League, helping to provide a lifelong artistic home for Directors and a platform for dialogue with and between audiences. As the former Associate Producer of Vineyard Theatre, Ali had a hand in bringing to life critically acclaimed world-premieres by some of the most renowned artists in our field, including Paula Vogel (INDECENT), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (GLORIA), Michael Mayer, John Kander, and Susan Stroman, to name a few. Other select producing projects include: Producing Coordinator for Transport Group Theatre Company; Associate Producer (and star) of the short film Sináptica, which garnered 6 awards and 37 selections in film festivals around the world; Artistic Producer of the multimedia theatrical adaptation, THE UNTITLED GINSBERG PROJECT; and Company Producer for PuppetCinema's PLANET EGG (Washington Post Editor's Pick, Capital Fringe 5-star "Best of the Fringe" selection). As a playwright, Ali has been awarded residency to the HBMG Foundation’s 2018 National Winter Playwrights Retreat, and her first full-length play, RAFETUS, was a Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill (2017), the Woodward/Newman Drama Award (2019-2020), the Blue Ink Playwriting Award (2019), the New Light New Voices Award (2019-2020), and the Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award (Barrington Stage, 2019). Ali is also an award-winning photographer with international publication (Image International, Photolife Magazine), and has traveled all over the world documenting her adventures through her photos and journals. She is a proud member of TCG and graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute's 14-week program (2014). Upcoming: a documentary short currently in development with CompassNeedle. www.aliskyebennet.com
Cast
ROSE KALIVODA (Emily) is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer. Select credits include: Tillie in THE EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS ON MAN-IN-THE-MOON MARIGOLDS (The New School for Drama), Hero in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Hickman Theater), Catherine Givings in IN THE NEXT ROOM (Knox Theater), and Mimi in GUYS AND DOLLS (Prairie Players Theater). She worked as an acting coach through a fellowship at Knox College, and currently works at Greenlight Bookstore. MFA in acting from The New School, 2018.
KATHRYN ROSSETTER (Anne)
Broadway: DEATH OF A SALESMAN opposite Dustin Hoffman, TIME OF THE CUCKOO, and most recently, standby for Patti Lupone in SHOWS FOR DAYS at Lincoln Center. Many, many productions Off-Broadway, including MR. LANDING TAKES A FALL at the Flea Theatre, for which she received a NYIT Nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress. Film: Death Of A Salesman, Speed II, Fearless, Shakedown, The Night We Never Met, Whatever, Pose Down, The Unidentified, Ten Stories Tall. TV: “Law & Order SVU,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Full House,” “Kate and Allie,” and many more. Currently developing her show, STARVING, HYSTERICAL NAKED (Tennessee Williams Theatre Fellowship). Teacher and former Head of the MFA Acting Program at The New School College of Performing Arts, and Teacher of Solo Performance at Brooklyn College. Essays published in “No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood,” The Hollywood Reporter, and The Gettysburg Magazine. Frequent performer at Dixon Place as part of THE MOSQUITO, an evening of comedy, monologues, essays, and music hosted by Nancy Giles. 
ALBA QUEZADA (Narrator) Ms. Quezada, a 2014 recipient of the New School's Distinguished University Teaching Award, is a designated Linklater teacher who has taught at The New School for over 20 years. As a performer, she recently performed sold-out recitals at the Deiá International Music Festival in Mallorca, and has performed principal roles in opera and musical theater throughout the US, Europe, and on Broadway. She is the featured soprano on the 2005 Grammy-nominated recording, Exágonos (Cambria Music), and has worked in TV, radio, and film. Fun credits: Yes, Giorgio! with Luciano Pavarotti, and For Heaven’s Sake directed by Ken Kwapis (“The Office”), student film Academy Award winner, 1982.
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JILLIAN MACKLIN (Charlotte) is an actor and voiceover artist from the DC Metropolitan Area. She holds an MFA in Acting from the New School for Drama and a BA in Theatre from Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. Her select credits include voiceovers for Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas, OnStar, Goodwill, Ad Council, and IHOP radio. She was seen as Portrait #9 in SELF-PORTRAITS (by Phillip Howze, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb), a multidisciplinary play at BRIC Arts Media in Brooklyn. She was also featured in the short film, Student Loan Dreams: Debt and Determination for First Republic Bank.
MICHAEL STAHL-DAVID (Edward) is best known for his starring role in JJ Abrams' “Cloverfield” and his role in Season 3 of Netflix's “Narcos”. Theater: ENGAGEMENTS (Second Stage Uptown), THE COMMONS OF PENSACOLA (MTC, opposite Sarah-Jessica Parker), PICKED (Vineyard), THE OVERWHELMING (Roundabout). TV: “The Deuce,” “Chambers,” “Show Me A Hero,” “My Generation,” “The Good Wife,” “New Girl,” and “The Black Donnelys”. Film: LBJ (as Bobby Kennedy, opposite Woody Harrelson), Light of the Moon (Audience Award SXSW 2017), In Your Eyes (produced by Joss Whedon), Take Care, Please Stand By, The Promise. He began his career in Chicago where he attended Colombia College Chicago and The Steppenwolf School.
CHINAZA UCHE (Heath) Chinaza has performed Off-Broadway at Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Realm, Classic Stage Company, Labyrinth Theater Company, and The National Black Theatre. On screen, he has appeared in the films Mother of George (Sundance), Minyan (upcoming), Shookum Hills (upcoming), and stars in the feature film Nigerian Prince, which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Chinaza can also be seen as a recurring character on the TV show “Dickinson” (starring Hailee Steinfeld and Jane Krakowski) and the Anthology series "Little America", both of which will be airing this fall on Apple TV+. School: NYU Drama. Instagram: @chinazauche.
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