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NIAGARA FALLS, NY
ALL THINGS PORTIA
Bullpen Sessions Episode Seven: Portia
Portia stopped by the studio to talk with us about her journey from growing up in Niagara Falls to the moment when she dedicated her life to creating as an artist. We discussed her spiritual approach to her craft and her career and the importance of knowing who will be there in her times of need. Portia recently played Cynthia in a production of Sweat at the Mark Taper Forum, Jackie Zinner in Artney Jackson at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mrs. Dickson in Intimate Apparel at the Bay Street Theatre and Flora in The Rose Tattoo in Williamstown. She's appeared on numerous television shows (including Madam Secretary, Bull, and The Blacklist) and in films (including Skin, St. Vincent de Van Nuys, Silver Tongues and The Greatest).
AUDIBLE ORIGINALS:
hop thA A
New York, 2013. During his late-night commute on the A train, Harlem native Tyrone tries to impress Niesha, his coworker at a nightclub, who just wants to read her book and pass the ride in silence. But as they travel uptown, the two forge an unlikely connection that extends beyond the confines of the subway car.
Directed by Stevie Walker Webb (Ain’t No Mo’, Public Theater; one in two, The New Group) and written by James Anthony Tyler (Artney Jackson, World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival), hop thA A is an Emerging Playwrights Commission about finding love in an unexpected place and humanity in a society designed to leave people behind.
hop thA A was directed by Stevie Walker-Webb with sound design by Justin Ellington.
Portions of this audiobook contain mature language and themes. Listener discretion is advised.
Playwright James Anthony Tyler was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible commissioned playwright, he received funding and creative support to develop hop thA A.
DIRTY LAUNDRY
An uproariously opinionated chorus of female voices (Portia, Tala Ashe, and Melissa Dougherty) provides the galloping cadence to Mathilde Dratwa’s new play Dirty Laundry, a comedy-drama that puts everything on the table to explore the extremes of human emotion.
A woman (Alison Pill) finds herself grappling with both grief and anger following the sudden death of her mother and the shocking revelation of her father’s infidelity. Her father (Reed Birney), on the other hand, is just trying his best to verbalize his own complicated feelings about love, loss, lust…and household chores.
And the other woman (Marsha Mason) simply wonders: Is she still “the other woman” when the original woman is gone?
Playwright Mathilde Dratwa was awarded a commission through the Audible Emerging Playwrights Fund, an initiative dedicated to developing innovative original plays driven by language and voice. As an Audible-commissioned playwright, she received funding and creative support to develop Dirty Laundry