Two Exciting Upcoming Events:

Women on the Verge: The Gladys and Mary Dohmen Reading Series, created to showcase the work of promising female artists on the verge of national recognition, will debut with Megan Mostyn-Brown's play girl., directed by Kyla Kantor and featuring Carmen Berkeley.

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girl. - An inventive, sensitive rendering of the female adolescent experience and its ramifications, girl. reveals how the butterfly effect can reverberate from mother to daughter and beyond.

The cast of girl. includes:
 

Carmen Berkeley (NY: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord)
Erica Camarano (TV: “The Equalizer”)
Jade Krickstein
Sarah Linares (NY: Sorry for Your Loss)
and Marquis Rodriguez (TV: “Queen Sugar”)
 
Production stage manager… Skylar Jean
Technical producer… Ruby Locknar
Video editor… Seth Walters
General Manager… LDK Productions
 
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:

girl. will have a public presentation at The Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street on Monday, April 11 at 7 PM.  The event is FREE. Tickets can be reserved by visiting Eventbrite. And are on a first come, first serve basis. 

A Woman's Storyland, established to shepherd female writers and their stories, will launch with the work of Phanésia Pharel, a rising Haitian-American playwright. To develop her exciting new play, Black Girl Joy, La Femme will hold an Equity workshop under the direction of the award-winning Regina Taylor. 
 
Black Girl Joy - At a housing center for vulnerable youth in Miami, Trina, JT, Squeaks, and Donna come together to share their evocative stories. Lyrically moving between memory, choreopoems, and a mystical plot, Black Girl Joy is a ritual play for black girls/women to heal from intimate partner violence, a loss of girlhood, and the death of friends. 
 
The cast of Black Girl Joy includes:
 
Jerusha Cavazos (BWAY: The Prom)
Michael Chenevert (Film: Eugenia and John)
Diata Coleman (Film: Pretenders)
Andrea Jones-Sojola (BWAY: The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess)
Esco Jouley (Sundance TV’s “State of the Union”)
Imani Lewis (TV: “First Kill”)
Lauralie Ashley Mufute (Tada’s Wide-awake Jake)
Kimber Elayne Sprawl (BWAY: Girl from the North Country)
and Tony winner Karen Ziemba (BWAY:  Prince of Broadway, Contact).  
 
Production stage manager… Gwen Gilliam
Casting director… Erica Hart
Musical coordinator… Bill Toles
Choreographer…  Adesola Osakalumi
General Manager… LDK Productions
 
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:
After two weeks of development, Black Girl Joy will culminate in a rehearsal/presentation on April 17 for an invited audience (not open to the public).