Reading: 1300 Lafayette East By Brooke Berman
Monday, February 10 | 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Discussion to follow Tickets: $5 per person. Buy online or at the door
Detroit,
1967. In the gleaming lobby of the Lafayette Towers, the Supremes are
fighting, a young housewife is pining for something new, and Reena
Walker - an aspiring Motown singer - is locked out of her apartment in a
peignoir set paid for by a married man. Can a new relationship be
forged atop this powderkeg of a city?
Brooke Berman (Playwright)
is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and memoirist whose work
has been produced and developed at: Primary Stages, The Second Stage,
Steppenwolf, The Play Company, Soho Rep, Williamstown Theater Festival,
Naked Angels, MCC, WET, SPF, New Dramatists, New Georges, Bay Area
Playwrights and the O’Neill. In the UK, her work has been developed at
The Royal Court Theatre, The National Theatre Studio and Pentabus.
Plays include: Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages); Smashing (The Play Company, The O’Neill); Until We Find Each Other (Steppenwolf, The O’Neill); The Triple Happiness (Second Stage), Sam and Lucy (SPF, Cleveland Playhouse), A Perfect Couple (WET), Out of the Water (Cape Cod Theater Project, ARS Nova), Casual Encounters
(New Dramatists Creativity Fund) and others. Awards include: Berilla
Kerr Award, Helen Merrill Award, two Francesca Primus Awards, two
LeCompte du Nuoy awards and a commissioning grant from the National
Foundation for Jewish Culture. She was a resident playwright at New
Dramatists, where she served on the Board of Directors and developed
countless plays. Brooke’s short film “All Saints Day”, directed by Will
Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and
played at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. Brooke attended Barnard
College and is a proud graduate of The Juilliard School. She is a member
of the Dramatists Guild, PEN and the MCC Playwrights Coalition.
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