| VOICES FROM THE SILENCED benefit starring Marsha Mason, Amy Irving, Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Jane Curtin, Kecia Lewis-Evans October 21 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 03:28 pm EDT 09/12/24 | |
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| Kathleen Chalfant, Jane Curtin, Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Amy Irving, Christine Lahti, Kecia Lewis-Evans, Marsha Mason, Rachel Ticotin Star in Voices from the Silenced By Martha Boesing and Victoria Rue Directed by Zoya Kachadurian A One-Night Reading to Benefit The Center for Reproductive Rights and The Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (the ACT) October 21, 2024 Symphony Space Tickets on Sale Today https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-voices-from-the-silenced September 12, 2024 (New York, NY) – Producers Armenian Velvet Productions, Nina Keneally and Sarahbeth Grossman along with co-producer NewYorkRep are proud to announce casting for a one-night reading of Voices from the Silenced by Martha Boesing and Victoria Rue directed by Zoya Kachadurian to benefit The Center for Reproductive Rights and The Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT) on Monday, October 21, 2024 at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (at 95th Street) at 7:00pm. Tickets are now on sale through https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-voices-from-the-silenced. Voices From The Silenced stars Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, Wit, "Law & Order"), Emmy Award nominee Jane Curtin ("Saturday Night Live," "Kate & Allie," "3rd Rock from the Sun"), Tony and Emmy Award winner Tyne Daly ("Cagney & Lacey," Gypsy, Rabbit Hole), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Sharon Gless ("Cagney & Lacey," "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill," "Queer As Folk"), Academy Award nominee Amy Irving (Yentl, Traffic, Road to Mecca – Obie Award), Academy Award winner Christine Lahti (Lieberman in Love, Gloria: A Life, "Evil"), Tony Award winner Kecia Lewis-Evans (Hell's Kitchen, Dreamgirls, Once On This Island), Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (Cinderella Liberty, The Goodbye Girl, "Grace and Frankie"), and ALMA Award winner Rachel Ticotin (Total Recall, Con Air, "Law & Order"). Additional casting to be announced. Voices from the Silenced offers a deeply human portrayal of women who faced the dangers of illegal abortions and societal stigma in the era before 1973. Boesing and Rue expertly combine drama and documentary elements to create a one-act play which is a powerful call to action to the ongoing fight for reproductive freedom. The performance will be followed by a discussion with experts currently dealing with the legal and medical battles surrounding reproductive rights. The producing team said "Just as Martha Boesing and Victoria Rue felt a sense of urgency to speak up for women when they wrote Voices from the Silenced, we are presenting this one-night-only event in New York City at this crucial time in our country, when the future of women's lives is at stake. With this incredibly talented cast, we are bringing these stories to the stage where, together as a community in the safe environment of the theatre, we can understand the reality of what women suffer when access to legal abortion is denied. United, we have more impact to protect women's rights. All proceeds from the reading will provide urgently needed support to women currently seeking abortion care under stringent legal restrictions. General management of Voices from the Silenced is by LDK Productions and casting is by Daryl Eisenberg. All proceeds from ticket sales go directly to The Center for Reproductive Rights and The Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT) supporting women in need of medication abortion assistance and aiding the legal battles to restore reproductive rights for all women. Tickets to Voices from the Silenced are available at https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-voices-from-the-silenced. Tax-deductible donations are being accepted at GiveButter.com/VoicesfromtheSilenced or through checks made out to NewYorkRep at 345 West 58th Street, Suite 10P, New York, NY 10019 BENEFICIARIES: The Center for Reproductive Rights - is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person. Since its founding in 1992, the Center's game-changing litigation, legal policy, and advocacy work—combined with unparalleled expertise in constitutional, international, and comparative human rights law—has transformed how reproductive rights are understood by courts, governments, and human rights bodies. Through their work across five continents, they have played a critical role in securing legal victories before national courts, United Nations Committees, and regional human rights bodies on reproductive rights issues including access to life-saving obstetrics care, contraception, maternal health, and safe abortion services, as well as the prevention of forced sterilization and child marriage. https://reproductiverights.org/ The Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT) - is the only nationwide advocacy organization working to proactively advance telemedicine abortion in all 50 states. By providing clinicians with the direct legal and technical support needed to operate a telemedicine abortion practice, we can close the abortion accessibility gap for all patients – regardless of their zip codes. ACT was founded in 2022 after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, resulting in 20 states severely limiting access to abortion and miscarriage-care. Co-founders Julie F. Kay, JD, Dr. Linda Prine, and Dr. Maggie Carpenter, are leaders in the reproductive freedom movement who have harnessed their collective medical and legal expertise to meet this moment with comprehensive support for telemedicine abortion. https://www.theactgroup.org/ BIOGRAPHIES: Kathleen Chalfant. In a career spanning more than five decades, Kathleen Chalfant's performances on stage, screen and television have garnered her praise and acclaim from critics and audiences alike. Perhaps best known for her shattering portrayal of Vivian Bearing, a scholar battling cancer, in Wit, she received the Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Ovation, Connecticut Critics Circle, Garland and LA Drama Critics Circle Awards for her work. BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nom.), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. She most recently appeared in Here There Are Blueberries with New York Theatre Workshop & Tectonic Theatre Project, as well as the upcoming film Familiar Touch. NY/OFF-BROADWAY: The Year of Magical Thinking, A Woman of the World, Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, CT Critics Circle, Obie Awards), HELLZAPOPPIN' with Yvonne Rainer, Four Quartets (BAM), For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nom.), Tales from Red Vienna, Miss Ovington & Dr. Dubois, Talking Heads (Obie Award), Dead Man's Cell Phone, Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination), Henry V (Callaway Award). Jane Curtin first gained national attention when she made her TV debut in 1975 as one of the original members of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players on the hit late-night series "Saturday Night Live." During her five-year run on that show, she received critical acclaim and two Emmy nominations for her creation of many memorable characters. Jane went on to a successful six-year run as Dr. Mary Albright on the NBC hit "3rd Rock from the Sun." She was a member of the improvisational theater group The Proposition for four years before going on a national tour with a number of plays, including the comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Recently, she can be seen in Marielle Heller's critically acclaimed dark comedy "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" starring alongside Melissa McCarthy as well as commercial hit "The Spy Who Dumped Me" opposite Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon. Tyne Daly has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1961. She has been privileged to work with the finest playwrights in the English language: Edward Albee, Nora and Delia Ephron, Arthur Laurents, David Lindsay-Abaire, Terrence McNally, Theresa Rebeck, and more talented actors than space allows. Daly has three grown daughters and seven grandchildren, 3 Tony nominations (1 win), and 16 Emmy nominations (6 wins). She has performed in Los Angeles, New York and London and is an inductee into The American Theater Hall of Fame. Her acting family members include her mother, father, brother, former husband and their daughter. Sharon Gless is well known throughout the world for her multi-Emmy and Golden Globe winning roles. As the final contract player at Universal Studios, she starred and co-starred in such top-rated TV series as "The Rockford Files;" "Marcus Welby, M.D;" "The Bob Newhart Show;" "House Calls;" "Switch;" "Cagney and Lacey" with Tyne Daly, the first hour-long drama to feature two females in the leading roles, for six Emmy winning seasons; "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill;" "Queer As Folk;" and "Burn Notice" for which Gless earned her 10th Emmy nomination. Gless has also starred in major theatrical productions (Misery, Chapter Two, Round-Heeled Woman) on London's West End as well as U.S. tours. Gless has appeared in "The Exorcist," "Casualty" (BBC), "The Gifted," and "Nip/Tuck", garnering Gless yet another Emmy nomination. Simon & Schuster published Gless's autobiography, Apparently There Were Complaints, in December 2021, garnering raves and becoming an Amazon's Editor's "Book of the Month," a #1 seller in Autobiographies of Actors & Actresses, an Apple Audiobook "Must Listen," a "Best Audiobook" by Vulture.com, and an "Earphones Award Winner" from AudioFile. Gless co-stars with Pierce Brosnan and James Caan in the film, Fast Charlie, about which IndieWire raved, "Sharon Gless is laugh-out-loud funny as Mavis, a sewer-mouthed grandma..." As co-executive producer, Gless appeared most recently in Show Her the Money, a documentary featuring female entrepreneurs. Amy Irving. Broadway: The Coast of Utopia, Three Sisters, Broken Glass (Outer Critics, Drama Desk nominations), Heartbreak House (Drama Desk nomination), Amadeus. Other theatre: The Vagina Monologues, The Heidi Chronicles, Blithe Spirit, Romeo and Juliet, The Road to Mecca (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination), Ghosts, Celadine, A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, Waters Of March, Glass Menagerie, Motherhood Out Loud, A Little Night Music, We Live Here, Cheri, Lady in the Dark. Films: Carrie, The Fury, Voices, Honeysuckle Rose, The Competition, Yentl (Academy Award nomination), Micki and Maude, Rumplestiltskin, Crossing Delancey (Golden Globe nomination), A Show of Force, Benefit of the Doubt, Carried Away, I'm Not Rappaport, Deconstructing Harry, The Confession, Bossa Nova, Tuck Everlasting,13 Conversations About One Thing, Traffic, Hide and Seek, Adam, Unsane, Confetti and A Mouthful of Air. Television: "Anastasia" (Golden Globe nomination), "Law & Order SVU," "Alias," "House," "Zero Hour," "The Good Wife," "The Affair," and "Soundtrack." Albums: Born in A Trunk, upcoming Always Will Be. Christine Lahti has been working in the film industry for nearly four decades after her initial breakthrough role in ...And Justice for All. Just five years later, she would receive her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the film Swing Shift. She would also garner an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for her movie, Lieberman in Love, in which she starred and directed. She has also won a Golden Globe for her work on "Chicago Hope," and has been seen in the hit NBC show, "The Blacklist." While maintaining an incredibly successful film and television career, she also has developed a noteworthy Broadway career, starting with her 1980 Broadway debut in Loose Ends. She played 'Gloria Steinem' in the hit off-Broadway play, Gloria: A Life and was recently in the Robbie Bait play I'll Be Seeing Ya. Christine is currently starring in the CBS show, "Evil," created by Michelle and Robert King–which recently earned her a Critics Choice Awards nomination. Kecia Lewis-Evans is celebrating 40 triumphant years as a dynamic storyteller on stage and screen. Lewis' rich career of portraying formidable women has come full circle with her Tony Award winning performance of 'Miss Lyza Jane' in Alicia Keys' Hell's Kitchen. Entertainment Weekly proclaimed "Lewis is commanding...her voice is a weapon, and she knows just when to fire." Kecia also received Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lucille Lortel awards and a Drama League Award nomination for her performance. Kecia's Broadway's credits also include the original company of Dreamgirls, originating iconic roles in Once On This Island, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Leap of Faith; and appearing in The Gospel at Colonus (with Morgan Freeman), Big River, Ain't Misbehavin' (standby for Nell Carter) and Children of a Lesser God. Off Broadway she has starred in the title role of Mother Courage (CSC), The Skin of Our Teeth (TFNA - Obie Award), Dessa Rose (LCT - Drama Desk nom.), and Marie and Rosetta (ATC - Lortel & Drama League Nom), Obie Award). TV guest and recurring roles include "Mad About You" - reboot (Spectrum), "And Just Like That" (Max), "With Love" (Amazon), "The Passage" (Fox), "The Blacklist" (NBC), "Law & Order SVU" (NBC) and "Wu-Tang: An American Saga" (Hulu). Marsha Mason is a four-time Academy Award nominee and two-time Golden Globe Award winner. She received four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Goodbye Girl, Chapter Two and Only When I Laugh. Other films include The Cheap Detective, Max Dugan Returns, Heartbreak Ridge, Stella and Drop Dead Fred. She has also had an extensive stage career. Her Broadway credits include Cactus Flower, The Night of the Iguana, Impressionism and Steel Magnolias. She starred in a revival of The Prisoner of Second Avenue in London and received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album for the 2000 recording. Marsha is the associate director of The Roommate currently on Broadway starring Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow. She starred in the most recent production of A Little Night Music at Lincoln Center. Recent stage productions include starring in All My Sons at the Hartford Stage and starring and directing Lost In Yonkers at the Hartford Stage. In recent television, Marsha recurred on "Grace and Frankie" (Netflix), recurred on "Madam Secretary" (CBS), and guest starred on "The Good Wife." Previously, Marsha recurred as 'Pat Spence' in "The Middle" (ABC). Marsha received an Emmy nomination for her recurring role on "Frasier." Rachel Ticotin was born and raised in the Bronx, NY, and was one of the founding members of the Ballet Hispanico of New York dance company before she began her acting career in films such as Fort Apache, the Bronx; Falling Down; One Good Cop; Total Recall; Con Air; Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; Man on Fire and Somethings Gotta Give. In theater she has appeared on Broadway in Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart, and at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater in Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Tosca Project, and Eugene O'Neil's Ah Wilderness. On television she was in the series "American Family" and "Skin" and in the Dick Wolf series' "Law and Order Los Angeles" and "Crime and Punishment." She has guest starred in "Lost," "CSI Los Angeles," "Grey's Anatomy" and most recently in the Hulu series "The Act." She is also a recent, though delayed, graduate of Columbia University. Martha Boesing (Co-Writer) has written over 40 produced plays, led workshops, and directed plays for theaters. throughout the country. She was the co-Founder and Artistic Director of At the Foot of the Mountain Theater in Minneapolis (the longest running professional women's theater in the country) from 1974-84. She has won several national awards including an NEA, a Bush fellowship, and the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American playwrights. In the last several decades, she has created and directed plays with several theaters mostly in San Francisco and Minneapolis. In the sixties, she was a company member of Minneapolis' Firehouse Theater (an iconoclastic, experimental theater), and her work remains true to the ideological concerns of that time. Victoria Rue, M.Div., Ph.D. (Co-Writer). Victoria Rue, M.Div., Ph.D. is co-writer and director of the play Voices from the Silenced. She is lecturer emerita at San Jose State University in Comparative Religious Studies. She has written a book and numerous articles. Her book is Acting Religious: Theatre as Pedagogy in Religious Studies. As a theatre writer/director of forty years her work has been seen in NYC, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Bethlehem, Palestine. Victoria is also a Roman Catholic woman priest. Her current ministry is at Planned Parenthood where she escorts women into the clinic due to protestors who would have it otherwise. Zoya Kachadurian (Director). Voices from the Silenced is the merger of Zoya Kachadurian's theater production and directing career, and her producing experience in television and corporate events. She recently directed a reading of Wasabia by Wendy Herlich which will have its premier next April at Centenary Stage Company, and has directed the world premiere of Apple Season at NJ REP. In Massachusetts, she directed Stick Fly, The 39 Steps, An Inspector Calls, The Miracle Worker, Stones in His Pockets and more at the Majestic Theater as well as readings of The Dictator's Dentist by Sonya Hayden at New Perspectives, and Little Jimmy by Jimmy Noonan. She directed a video of her award-winning theatrical production of Georgia and Me, by/with Sarah Ford (best solo show Midtown International Festival 2011). And new works at Estrogenius Festival, EST Festival. Member: Lincoln Center and EST Directors' Labs, and La Mama's International Directors' Symposium. She was also a producer on "One Life To Live" (ABC), production coordinator "Sesame Street" (PBS) and a writer, director, camera director and cue caller on corporate events. https://www.Zoyazk.com Nina Keneally (Producer). Nina has produced Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning plays including Driving Miss Daisy and The Last Night at Ballyhoo as well as Sam Shepard's first Broadway show Buried Child. She was the lead producer on Good Vibrations the Beach Boys' musical and has worked on Broadway, off-Broadway and with regional theaters across the county with writers and artists including Morgan Freeman, Julie Harris, Paul Rudd, Judith Jamison, Bob Fosse, Gary Sinise, Horton Foote, Jon Robin Baitz and Thomas Keneally. Nina was the Managing Director of Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre Lab at the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard in Cambridge, MA. She has served on the Board of the Obie-awarding organization The New Group. She served as Secretary on the Board of New York Stage and Film for twelve years and is the past President of the Board of Connecticut Heritage Productions. Ms. Keneally has been a member of the League of American Theatres and Producers and served on the Board of Directors of the Off-Broadway League of Producers. She has served as Vice President of the Board of the Syracuse University Alumni. Nina founded and operates the internet-sensation business NEEDAMOM. Sarahbeth Grossman (Producer) is a Tony Award-nominated and Olivier Award-winning producer whose Broadway credits include Indecent, An American in Paris (also National Tour and West End), Dames at Sea, Ann and Stick Fly. Off-Broadway, Ms. Grossman produced the acclaimed comedy The Irish Curse, the New York premiere of Ten Chimneys and the 60th anniversary revival of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Sarahbeth was a producer on From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Sandy Hook and From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Orlando which were Broadway's response to the tragic shootings in Newtown and Orlando. Her film producing credits include the documentary "Midsummer at Newtown" and "Out To Sea." Prior to her work on and off Broadway, Ms. Grossman was the Executive Director of Global Brand Strategy and Business Development at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Vice President of Marketing Communications at Variety. NewYorkRep (Co-producer) develops and produces new plays and musicals that inspire and compel social change by telling stories that expose our humanity. By illuminating social and ethical questions through art, we strive to create provocative theater that promotes empathy, compassion, and inclusion. In order to increase access to the stories we tell, NewYorkRep produces content across artistic mediums. Our work has been a Critics Pick of The New York Times, praised in the Los Angeles Times and often noted in The Huffington Post. Our productions have been produced across the country and in London and Sydney. NewYorkRep is a 501(c)(3) organization. www.newyorkrep.org CIVILIAN is the Official hotel of Voices from the Silenced. # # # https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-voices-from-the-silenced |
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