JAW Play Reading: Good Person (A One-Woman Bouffon Show)
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Directed by Dominique Rider
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Patrica! (A clown, a monster, and definitively good person) drags you down into her own hole of her own making to ask why we are good. Part seminar and part existential crisis. It’s buffoon, it’s funny, it’s dread. This one person show crafted in drag bars and cabaret spaces invites you to question what makes a person good, and if you happen to be one of those so-called "Good People."
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!
Brett Ashley Robinson (she/they) is a 2021 Pew Fellow and Barrymore Award winning artist. She’s the 2021 winner of the PEN America/ Jean Stein Oral History Grant for Re-Enactment and a two time nominee for the Golden Tassel Jawn, Philadelphia ’s Drag and Burlesque awards, for best comedy act as Patricia! At the Wilma: Blood Wedding, There, Describe the Night, Mr Burns, Is God Is (a radio play), Fairview, Twelfth Night, Dance Nation. They’ve worked with Theater Exile, InterAct, Under the Radar Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Pig Iron, and the Bearded Ladies. She’s an Assistant Professor of Acting at UIUC, a company member of Applied Mechanics, and of HotHouse–the Wilma Theater’s resident acting company. Much love to David and Owen
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