Eve Ensler's 'Any One of Us: Words from Prison, Miami'

Acclaimed Playwright Eve Ensler to Perform in Any One of Us: Words From Prison, Miami

October 18 for One Night Only

Eve Ensler, renowned for her pioneering work The Vagina Monologues, will perform in Any One of Us: Words From Prison, Miami on Thursday, October 18, at Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, Miami. Any One of Us, Miami, which was conceived by Ensler,reveals the connection between women's incarceration and their history of abuse. ArtSpring and Women's Fund of Miami-Dade will present the benefit performance.

In New York Any One of Us wasperformed before a sold-out audience last summer at Lincoln Center. The Miami production will be staged and directed by FIU dance professor and ArtSpring founder and artistic director Leslie Neal using a script that is comprised entirely of writings by women serving time behind bars, featuring narratives by women in Miami-Dade and Broward prisons. Their experiences will come alive with readings by Ensler and a cast of Florida artists, advocates, and community leaders—including Dr. Laura Bedard, deputy secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Katy Sorenson, television host Hunter Reno, and many others. Acclaimed songwriter and Carbonell Award nominee Amy Carol Webb will perform her original score, written especially for this occasion.

The Seminole Tribe of Floridais the Diamond Sponsor of Any One of Us, Miami.

Proceeds from the evening will benefit ArtSpring and Women's Fund of Miami-Dade programs that prevent at-risk girls from entering the juvenile justice systemand will fund the publication of an anthology of writings produced by women inmates during the Bridging the Gap workshops, a program supported by ArtSpring, Vicki Lopez Lukis, the Girls Advocacy Project and the Florida Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice. The anthology will be distributed to adolescent girls in detention and to at-risk girls as a tool for education and intervention. Funds generated by the event also will benefit V-Day, a worldwide effort created by Eve Ensler to end violence against women.

Any One of Us: Words from Prison, Miami A theater production conceived by playwright Eve Ensler, staged and directed by Leslie Neal Presented by ArtSpring and Women's Fund of Miami-Dade Thursday, October 18, 2007, 8 p.m. Gusman Center for the Performing Arts 174 E. Flagler Street, Miami Tickets: $50 – $250 Contact: 305.274.4772 or e-mail evntures@aol.com  www.womensfundmiami.org/A1U.htm