I’m so happy to announce that G-Four Productions and my good friend Seth Greenleaf are bringing a brand new production of “In The Voice of Our Mothers” to Florida next winter with an opening in Boca Raton in mid-February. Many more details will follow but the first news is that I will be flying down there on Sunday for four days of intensive auditions intending to find the company of actors who will lovingly embody each role. “Breathing life into ancient texts and told this time from the point of view of the women, “In The Voice of Our Mothers” reveals the intimate and powerful narratives of our Biblical matriarchs. As they invite us into their worlds, we see we are in familiar territory. Here are generations of women, learning, risking, and loving in all its complicated forms. We witness their journey through deserts of discovery, moving with audacity towards that female dance of freedom on the other side of the sea, which is no longer there. And we cannot help but follow, right into our own lives.” I would like to publically thank the women who opened their hearts to birth the play over the last four years in synagogues, churches, universities, prisons and theaters throughout the Hudson Valley and New York City. Yvonne Brechbuhler, Gabrielle Maisels, Kate Holland, Donna Klimek, Carole Forman, Ann Fleuchaus and Libby Skala. Then special gratitude to my co-producer, Susan Rosen and the group of women who helped to midwife us into the real world; Blaze Ardman, Janet Asiain, Susan Auchencloss, Rabbi Tsurah August, Elena Erber, Sherry Kahn, Barbara Sarah, Naomi Rothberg, and Pauline Tamari. I send a special nod to Rabbi Jonathan Kligler and to so many others who supported us with money, computer skills, graphic design, website, time, food, transportation, bookings and their laughter and tears as members of our audiences. Next Stop Boca Raton! xooxoxoxox
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:16:35 +0000