The Working Theater is set to present The Best of TheatreWorks: Stories from the 99%, June 24-17 at the Dorothy Strelsin Theatre at Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex. Tamilla Woodard will direct.
The Best of TheatreWorks: Stories from the 99% will feature six of the best short plays to come out of Working Theater’s TheaterWorks! Program, a 10-year old program which teaches working men and women to write and perform their own short plays about their experiences at work.
The playwrights include Gail Baskerville (clerical worker – Department of Education), Mirsada Damms (building service worker), Bernadette Elstein (911 operator), Michael O’Hara (building maintenance worker), Julian Pimiento (doorman), and Eric Sposito (former laborer in NY Daily News print shop).
The cast will feature Maria Helan, Andrés Munar, Tony Naumovski, Jens Rassmussen, Gabriel Sloyer, Jeanine Serralles, and Nikki E. Walker.
The design team will be comprised of Deb O (set and prop design), Emily DeAngelis (costume design), Christopher Weston (lighting design), and Jeremy J. Lee (sound design).
For more information and tickets to The Best of TheatreWorks: Stories from the 99%, click here.
