EST/Sloan Project presents a Reading of
Lemuria
written by Bonnie Antosh
directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh*
featuring Smith Alfieri, Timothy Bright, Ceci Fernández, Maya Jackson, Irene Sofia Lucio, Paola Sanchez Abreu, & Nance Williamson
In the animal kingdom and in our own, how does a queen pass the crown to another queen? LEMURIA is queer King Lear in a North Carolina lemur lab.
Ingrid Pierson, Stage Manager
This virtual reading will be held on the Zoom platform. You can make sure you have the latest version downloaded here.
* indicates EST Member Artist
Bonnie Antosh is a playwright and performer from both Carolinas & New York. Her plays include CLUCK DELUXE (winner, 2019 Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival), PERSEPHONE AT THE RIVER (finalist, 2019 Red Bull Short New Play Festival), RARE (Yale Playwrights Festival), THE WILDERNESS NEEDS YOUR WHOLE ATTENTION (Rule of 7x7), and I TOLD YOU IT WOULD END LIKE THIS (co-written with Avery Deutsch). She studied theater at Yale, where she received both the Louis Sudler Prize and the Shana Alexander Research Fellowship in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work as an actress includes seasons with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare on the Sound, and Nebraska Shakespeare. Bonnie is a '20-'21 EST/Sloan commission recipient and the Literary Manager of Playing on Air, a podcast and public radio show devoted to contemporary short plays. She currently writes and lives in Asheville, NC. BonnieAAntosh.com
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Lemuria is part of this season's First Light Festival, learn more about the festival and other plays like this here.
We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: Actors’ Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists, and SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the artists to appear on this program.