Crystal Skillman's PULP VERITE Gets Reading Today at Cherry Lane

Cherry Lane's Tongues Reading Series presents Pulp Vérité by Crystal Skillman today, September 12th at 2 PM.

Directed by Shaun Peknic, the reading will feature Bubba Weiler, Angel Lin, Kathleen Littlefield, Keilly McQuail, Angel Moore, and Susannah Perkins.

Joy returns to the U.S. from Syria to reunite with Pulp Vérité, her filmmaking collective, after she has been held overseas for three years. When her friends realize Joy has gathered them together for the impossible: to bring her sister who is still a captive with ISIS home, their strength as a collective and their youthful ideals of the world are tested. But as precious time ticks away, the collective is unaware of the greater danger - Joy's own memory of her captivity is unraveling ... as she experiences an America vastly different than the one she left behind.

The reading is free. Please make a reservation at the Cherry Lane reservation here: www.cherrylanetheatre.org/programs/tongues-reading-series. For more information, visit the Facebook event page.

Crystal Skillman is the author of Geek, Cut, and King Kirby (co-written with Fred Van Lente), all NYTimes Critics picks. New plays include: Rain and Zoe Save the World (2017 Blue Ink Award Finalist, 2017 O'Neill Semi-Finalist, 2016 New Harmony Project, 2016 Oregon Performance Lab), Pulp Vérité (2017 Upcoming Cherry Lane reading, 2017 Judson's Magic Time Series, 2016 BAPF Finalist, 2015 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission), and Another Kind of Love, a punk rock play (Chopin Theater, 2015, Chicago). She is the musical theater book writer of Mary and Max, based on the claymation film, and The Cover, both with award winning ASCAP Composer/Lyricist Bobby Cronin. Mary and Max was directed by Stafford Arima in a workshop with Broadway Dreams Foundation at the Alliance in Atlanta this June. Other new musicals with Stafford include Postcard American Town with composer Lynne Shankel, and a piece with Paul Scott Goodman. She is the author of The Vigil or The Guided Cradle, winner of the 2010 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length. Crystal is represented by UTA and a proud member of EST. EST Productions/Commissions include: The Ballad of Phineas P. Gage (HERE/Drama of Works Production). She is an alumni of Youngblood, Women's Project, and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Her work can be found at her publisher Samuel French. Her original TV pilot for her series Paper Heroes, co-created and written with Fred Van Lente, was named one of the "Top 50" in this year's Launchpad Pilot Competition.

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