PlayMakers Repertory Company Presents AFTER ORLANDO

PlayMakers Repertory Company will partner with Triangle theater companies Little Green Pig, Black Ops and the Kenan Theater Company (a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill undergraduate theater troupe) to proudly present a staged reading of AFTER ORLANDO, an evening of short plays in response to the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The reading is presented in association with Missing Bolts Productions Inc. (Blair Baker & Zac Kline artistic directors) and NoPassport Theatre Alliance and Press (Caridad Svich, founder) and will be on November 28th, at 7:30pm in the Kenan Theater at the Center for Dramatic Arts.

The reading will be free and open to the public and will feature short works by Jacqueline E. Lawton, Caridad Svich, Lindsey Ferrentino, Katie Pearl, Oliver Mayer, Jordan Tannahill, Korde Tuttle, Matthew Paul Olmos, Rohina Malik, Anders Lustgarten, Migdalia Cruz, brian james Polak, Jennifer Maisel, Dipika Gua, Neil LaBute, Ian Rowlands, Joan Lipkin, Amina Henry, Zac Kline and Sung Rno.

AFTER ORLANDO is an international playwright-driven theatre action including over-seventy playwrights from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Africa and Australia. Plays have been specifically written and curated in response to this tragic event and will be read at over 40 venues across the country and in the UK throughout the fall.

Other partner venues for the AFTER ORLANDO project have included: The Finborough Theatre (London); Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the LGBT Center (NYC); Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center (DC); William Inge Center for the Arts (Independence, KS); The Theatre @ Boston Court and the University of Southern California (Los Angeles); Miami New Drama (Miami), Philadelphia Theatre Company and The University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and many more.

"We are proud to be involved in this important artistic action that responds to the tragic violence and prejudice permeating too much of our lives today," says PlayMakers Producing Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch. "And it is particularly gratifying to join forces with other theatrical companies in our community to raise awareness through our shared passion."

Kline and Baker of Missing Bolts note: "As theatremakers, we have the ability to bring together many singular unique voices toward a common goal. We have invited some of the most admired theatre artists worldwide to participate; to share our grief, our anger, our hope and our desire to combat the violence we are now living with on a daily basis." Svich of NoPassport adds: "Making some healing art, some fiery art, some work that just says we can rise up from and through collective mourning."

The Kenan Theater is located at the Center for Dramatic Arts, 150 Country Club Road in Chapel Hill.

The reading is free and open to the public. For more information please visit: www.playmakersrep.org/show/after-orlando.