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Diary of a Mad Social Worker Downtown Urban Theater Festival - Best Short Winner Written & Performed by Helena D. Lewis |
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Fridays - Sept 26 & Oct 3 Saturdays -Sept 27 & Oct 4 Sunday Matinees - Sept 28 & Oct 5 Doors open a 1/2 hour before showtime All evening showtimes 7pm Tickets can be purchased |
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Helena D Lewis returns to the Nuyorican with this one-woman, 25-character powerhouse production. After being assigned more work than she can handle, social worker Lewis has a nervous breakdown, tries to kill her boss, and is committed for psychiatric observation. After being restrained Lewis recalls her true-life experiences working with prostitutes, drug addicts and prisoners, portraying twenty-five different characters from pimps to menopausal women. Call Me Crazy... a unique look at the highs and lows of working for peanuts while trying to save the world one poem at a time. |
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| JACQUELINE WADE is a graduate of Temple University Theater Department and Circle in the Square Two Year Actors' Training Program. She is a member of SAG and AEA. She has performed in plays at various Off Broadway Theatres and regional theatres throughout the country including Milwaukee Rep, Wilma Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, LaMaMa etc, Classical Theatre of Harlem and many other theatres.†† She has also written over 11 plays and performance art pieces which have been produced at and/or toured many theatres, performing art centers, museums, schools, colleges, and /or libraries through the country. Some of the Locations include the New York International Fringe Festival, LaMaMa etc, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, The Second Annual Harlem Summer Arts Festival, Womenkind VII Festival, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York University, Jamaica Arts Center, over 50 Queens Libraries, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House Museum, The Old South Meeting House Museum in Boston, Vinnette Carroll Theatre, Queens Theater in the Park, Harlem School for the Arts and many other Locations. It has been her goal to present the side of history which is not often told.
Her plays and performance art pieces deal with the alternative, political, and cultural perspectives from the past and present.† Some of her plays include Phillis Wheatley: The African Muse; Black Panther Women; Women In Comedy; Madam C.J.Walker; The Three Sides of Anita Hill; Miles (Davis); Tituba; Garvey&Mac226;Äôs Wives; Nat Turner, Rosa, and many more. In 2002, Franklin Westbrooks an actor who performed in her play, Miles (Davis) was nominated for an Audelco Award.† Jacqueline Wade was awarded in 2000† the Walt Disney Pride Rock Grant. Jacqueline Wade was also awarded the Ethel Surgent grant for $15,000 which helped to fund the touring of her plays to over 30 culturally deprived schools and institutions in Pennsylvania. She has also worked extensively with youth to motivate them to be positive, to have empowerment, and to be creative. She does this through workshops, arts-in-education programs, and creative dramatics programs as a director, playwright teacher, and acting teacher. She has also worked as a full time drama teacher for the New York Board of Education. She was honored in 1996 by the Delta Zeta Chapter in Philadelphia for teaching cultural literacy through drama.†† Ms. Wade has also directed many plays and has produced extensively. For the past five years Ms. Wade has† also been the executive producer and co-founder for Through Her Eyes Women of Color Arts and Film Festival in New York City. This festival presents plays and† films by or about Women of Color (African American, Native American, Latina, Middle Eastern, Asian, East Indian, and African). Ms. Wade would like to give thanks to her parents for all of their support along with Lucien George. Ms. Wade would also like to thank Carlos† and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe for giving her the opportunity to be a part of this fascinating production. Finally she would like to thank Nicole Leary, Gene Hughes, Michael Lewis, and Alix Moore for all of their help and wonderful performances. |
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