JAW Play Reading: Even Faster Than a Blink
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By Tyler Andrew Jones
Directed by Chalia La Tour
When the pandemic hit, Taaliba Campbell gave up her life as an artist and moved back home to Richmond to help her mother run their family business, Campbell’s. A year after insurmountable grief and loss, and as the prospect of a loan begins to slip through their fingers, the whole family gathers to decide what is to become of Campbell’s and, unknowingly, each of their lives.
JAW New Play Festival FREE! July 28-30
A week-long assembling of artists and audiences to create new plays! Artistic teams, including playwrights, directors and actors, come together to rehearse — and a lot of times rewrite! — a play. The final piece of the process happens during the weekend, when we share “music stands readings” with audiences so the playwrights can hear their work, often for the very first time!
Hailing from Portland, Tyler is a multidisciplinary theater artist, writer, and teacher. His works include The Marks You Leave, which was produced in part by Ronnie Lacroute and the WillaKenzie Estate at the 20th Annual International New York Fringe Festival and has since received an Off-Broadway reading at The Cell Theatre, as well as Sanctuary, Kief, and Little Dark Star. He was a finalist for American Players Theatre’s New Voices project and a semi-finalist for Artist Repertory Theatre’s Oregon Play Prize. As a performer, Tyler has worked on stage at Portland Center Stage, Portland Playhouse, in New York at Feinstein's/54 Below, The Cell Theatre, New World Stages, and in Egypt at the Cairo Opera House and the Alexandria Opera House as part of the CIFCET Festival. Tyler attended Marymount Manhattan College and is a proud member of AEA and The Dramatists Guild of America. IG: @t.andrew.jones
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