Community Reading of Mo Holmes’ play WINGS//
WATERMELON
Nov 1, 2-4pm
Ages 5+ up (kids and adults encouraged)
FREE
About the Community reading of Mo Holmes’ play WINGS//WATERMELON
There’s mean things happenin’ in this land. What's left to do but make a scene? At this community reading, you and your neighbors will pick up a script and join the 1500, a group of sharecroppers and tenant farmers from the bootheel of Missouri, as they camp out on the highway to protest the failings of the president’s New Deal. Based on historical and familiar events from peoples who take to the road. Discussion to follow.
About Mo Holmes
Mo Holmes is a playwright, librettist and dramaturg, born in San Antonio and raised on the long stretch of road from Texas to Alabama. She is a winner of the Yale Drama Prize, Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize and Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award. Her work has been developed and/or presented by The Bushwick Starr, The Fire This Time Festival, the Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival and Good Apples Collective in New York; and the Playwrights’ Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Minnesota Opera, Atlanta Opera, DePaul University’s Climate Action New Play Collective, and elsewhere nationally. As a dramaturg and teaching artist, she has supported new play development at the Playwrights’ Center, Guthrie Theater, Horizon Theatre Company, Good Apples Collective and Columbia University, among others. MFA: Columbia.