Columbus Street at The New Group

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I direct this workshop reading of COLUMBUS STREET by Amina Henry

part of the New Group New Works Spring Reading Festival

Lucy and Clay, black Muslims from Detroit, move to a small – and very white – town in Indiana for jobs at the local university, and meet the well meaning working class couple next door. When Lucy asks Clay to fence in a garden plot that may touch the property line, the best of intentions on both sides can’t prevent buried feelings from spilling out.

Featuring: Brian D. Coates, Danielle Davenport, Chad Goodridge, Brad Heberlee & Amy Staats

6/2 @ 5pm @ The Studio Theatre at Theatre Row

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THE PARADE GROUND

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I direct this workshop concert reading of  THE PARADE GROUND
a new parade opera

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Part of the Fresh Ground Pepper Festival

4/15 @ 3pm & 4/21 @ 12pm @ The New Ohio Theater

April 15, 2033 – New York City. Space Admiral Mira Clemente has just landed back to Earth after a 15 year solo space mission. The world has changed a great deal since Mira’s launch in 2018. Overrun by truth discrepancies and near-facts, the America of 2033 is drowning in the fiction it sells to itself. 30 years later, a group of old friends have dusted off their old marching band instruments and are reuniting to throw Mira a homecoming parade through their old neighborhood. But the parade is not what it seems. And Mira’s return home will cause her to doubt everything.

Written by Eric Farber
Music Direction by Fred Epstein

Featuring: Starr Busby & Kristine Haruna Lee

Marching Band:
Glockenspiel: Fred Epstein
Drums: Marisa Clementi, Eric Farber, Storm Thomas
Horns: Matthew Cain (Sousaphone), Clyde Daley (trumpet), Dan Dunford (trombone), Brama Sukarma (trombone)