(AGENPARL) – mar 15 ottobre 2024 For Immediate Release October 15, 2024
Christina Redd and Kathryn Grody
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Jane Curtin, Tyne Daly,
Sharon Gless, Amy Irving, Christine Lahti,
Marsha Mason, and Rachel Ticotin
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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
The Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (the ACT)
October 21, 2024
Symphony Space
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Christina Redd (BOMBINGham, S/HE: Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas, Detroit Blues) will join the previously announced stars of Voices from the Silenced: Emmy Award nominee Jane Curtin (“Saturday Night Live,” “Kate & Allie,” “3^rd 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”), 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”).
Social media influencer and activist Kathryn Grody (A Mom’s Life) will introduce the performance and participate in a post-show discussion along with a representative from the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Julie F. Kay, Executive Director of the ACT Group, and the authors, director and cast members regarding the current legal battles, medical obstacles and options facing those in immediate need of reproductive health care.
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 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.
BENEFICIARIES:
BIOGRAPHIES:
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 “3^rd 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 10^th 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.
Kathryn Grody fled Los Angeles, arrived in New York City, and found herself employed on Broadway in Scapino. Off-Broadway followed with appearances at Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre including Fishing by Michael Weller, Museum by Tina Howe, Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks by Susan Miller and Miss Lulu Bett at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Ms. Grody received Obie Awards for her performances in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill and The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang as well as a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in her one-woman play, A Mom’s Life, all at the Public Theatre. She originated the role of ‘Maggie’ in The Penetration Play by Winter Miller, performed the classic role of ‘Nell’ in Becket’s Endgame at Irish Rep and was proud to participate in the Caryl Churchill reading at NYTW, Seven Jewish Children – a play for Gaza. Film appearances include Limbo and Men With Guns, written and directed by John Sayles, My Body Guard, directed by Tony Bill, and Lemon Sisters with Diane Keaton and Carol Kane. Most recently she appeared in the forthcoming short, WollyBolly, directed by Kristen Buckels. Falling Apart….together, the sequel of A Mom’s Life, was seen at CSC. Most recently she shared her play, The Unexpected 3rd, at Rosendale Theatre, Berkeley Rep, and at People’s Light, where it will have a world premiere in September. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW, works with the IRC and is on the board of Downtown Women For Change and Dances for A Variable Population.
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.
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.”
Christina Redd is a born and bred Native New Yorker who began her stage career as a professional modern dancer working almost exclusively with modern companies that performed politically charged repertoire. Some of her performances include the work BOMBINGham by choreographer Susan Hefner which dealt with the 1964 Alabama Church bombing and killing of the four girls in Birmingham, and the piece S/HE: Anita Hill/ Clarence Thomas by the Bessie Schoenberg Award-winning choreographer Jane Comfort, which explored a stark turning of the tables on existing gender/sexual identity structures. Christina was later involved in a retrospective performance of the work as well as a documentary celebrating the work of Ms. Comfort. Off Broadway: Classic Stage Company/First Look Festival: The Amen, director Liesel Tommy; PSP Productions: Detroit Blues, director Zoya Kachadurian; New World Theater/ Brooklyn; The Violet Hour, director Steve Kaliski and Flyin’ West, director Liz Ostler. Television: “Bull” (CBS), “The Night of ..” (HBO) and “Farragut North” (CUNY-TV). Various commercial spots: Verizon, Phillips, it’s Bigger than Me (Novo Nordisk), Horizon Therapeutics, & GE. I am thrilled to be a part of Voices of the Silenced, both as a performer and a mother concerned about her daughter’s future.
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.
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 60^th 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.
CIVILIAN is the Official hotel of Voices from the Silenced.
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