Comedian and Actress, Diana Yanez, tells a powerful and fantastically funny,personal account of growing up Cuban, Catholic and closeted in Miami!
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"Dynamic", "heartwarming" and "soulful" are words often used to describe Lucas' portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His uncanny resemblance to King is breathtaking, and his performance consistently brings standing ovations and a deeper appreciation of King's life, work and vision.
Abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth's life is told in her own words using her speeches and songs in this dramatic presentation by Kathryn Woods. Born a slave, Isabella Baumfree walked away from slavery to become an evangelist, when she wasn't being a maid or laundress. In her travels she met preachers and advocates of all sorts, and evolved into Sojourner Truth.
In 1859, abolitionist orator Frederick Douglass was being sought by the state of Virginia with an arrest warrant for his alleged activity in the armed assault on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry. This historical moment beset with national and personal drama is the setting for "Frederick Douglass, 1859". Guy Peartree renders Frederick Douglass with sensitivity to the historic and folkloric features of this period.
Chan stars in the one woman play "Unbinding Our Lives" which shatters the exotic, subservient, “China doll” image. In this powerful show Ms. Chan portrays three real Chinese American women from China in the 1800's and their personal stories of being sold into child slavery, prostitution, and abandonment. An unforgettable look at forgotten history.
Steven Fales is a professional actor who first came to national attention with his critically acclaimed, autobiographical Off-Broadway one-man play, Confessions of a Mormon Boy directed by Tony Award-winner Jack Hofsiss. Having rubbed shoulders with professionals and protestors, prostitutes and prophets, the multi-talented Fales is a self-proclaimed "Oxy-Mormon" who shares his humorous, compassionate, and clear-eyed perspective of the world through his writing and performing.
