Join me for a reading of 'Sophia Hayden Deserves Better'

I’m happy to announce that I will be doing a reading of Stephanie Alison Walker’s newest play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better. Stephanie is an incredible writer whose work on the stage has left me weeping in the audience long past curtain. When I experience her work, I experience an ocean of truth; so deep and refreshing, with sudden pockets of joy and comedy. It is some of the most raw and interesting work I have ever seen.

So you can imagine how excited I am to get to do a reading of her brand new play.

I first met Stephanie when I was enrolled in Emily Chase’s very first class about working on new plays. Stephanie was a playwright invited to watch a couple of scenes from her play being workshopped in the class and, though I wasn’t doing one of her scenes, I saw a spark in her that I absolutely adored and I knew I wanted to connect with her as a friend. For years, we have been building that friendship brick-by-brick (or tweet-by-tweet?), and it is such a joy that I get to read her words and perform them for the (Zoom) world!

Not only am I excited because I know the play is fantastic. I am excited because I get to work with some awesome people as well. I’m excited to work with Randee Trabitz who directed Stephanie’s play Friends With Guns at The Road Theatre, as well as actors Rob Nagle and Marcelo Tubert, two friends of mine from the Antaeus Company. Rob and I go so far back he auditioned me for my very first theatre class!

Join us for this very special reading on Saturday, June 12th at 12pm Pacific Time (that’s 3pm Eastern Time, and 8pm in the U.K.). Click here to reserve your spot! This is part of the Playwrights Union’s First Peek series, so be sure to check out the other plays as well. I had the privilege to read a couple of first drafts of some of those plays and was wildly impressed to see how they were coming together so early in their purest form. Congrats to all the talented and hard-working playwrights taking part!