DCT GREEN ROOM 2008
DCT Presents Award Winning Actress Gin Hammond
(The Syringa Tree, Noon Day Sun)
in a Staged Reading of Her One-Woman Show
Returning the Bones
in DCT's Green Room

Victor Lirio Directs
Monday, November 24th @ 7PM, Theater 54 @ Shetler Studios
244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor
ADMISSION IS FREE

Gin Hammond

RETURNING THE BONES
A one woman show written and performed by
Helen Hayes Award Winner Gin Hammond
directed by Victor Lirio

Texas, 1948. A young black woman is confronted by difficult choices: to risk her life and fight for what she believes in, or to escape to Paris and live a life she’s always dreamed of.

Acclaimed actress Gin Hammond won the Helen Hayes Award for Oustanding Lead Actress for her performance of The Syringa Tree and has performed nationally at theatres such as The Guthrie, The Longwharf Theatre, Seattle's ACT, The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Pasadena Playhouse and Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. She recently starred in Cassandra Medley's NOON DAY SUN garnering critical and audience acclaim as Zena, a Black woman passing for White. For her performance in NOON DAY SUN, she earned an Audelco Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress of the Year.

An actor, producer and DCT's Artistic Director, Victor Lirio recently directed Diverse City Theater's critically acclaimed production of Cassandra Medley's NOON DAY SUN earning an Audelco Award nomination for Best Dramatic Production of the Year and Best Play of the Year. For DCT's Green Room, he has directed several original works in development including Christine Toy Johnson's PAPER SON and Kristine Reyes's QUARTER CENTURY BABY, which were presented at The Barrow Group Studios and Ensemble Studio Theatre this year.

DCT GREEN ROOM presents original works in development in a staged reading format by emerging and established playwrights. Its purpose is to provide a creative venue for playwrights to hear their work and foster a creative collaboration among artist directors and actors. Since 2005, The Green Room has presented over 100 artist playwrights, directors and actors including Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes; Laila Robins; Michael Cumpsty; Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran; Drama Desk Winner Amy Warren; Theater, Film & Television Actress Susan Misner; NEA-honoree Cassandra Medley; Maxine Kern; Jamie Richards; Jordan Beswick; Carlos Armesto; Andrew Bergh; Steven Ditmyer; Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza; Stuart Harris; Jason Tam; Cindy Cheung; Raul Aranas; Joe Byers; Robert Askins; Rona Figueroa; Linda Faigao-Hall; James McManus; Amy Hartman; Christine Toy Johnson; Kristine Reyes; Pearl Sun; Lydia Stryk; Sal Inzerillo; Rodney To; Victor Maog; May Adrales; Jessi Hill, among others.

ADMISSION IS FREE. LIMITED SEATING. "First come, first serve" seating. For more information, please contact Martha Zamirski at 212-916-0508 or rsvp[at]diversecitytheater.org.

About Diverse City Theater Company

Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization-run by artist playwrights, directors and actors - that focuses on promoting diversity and multiculturalism in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce powerful and though-provoking original plays that explore and examine diversity issues in our national culture, create multiculturally fluent theater audiences and advocate the non-traditional casting of actors.

Formed in 2003, Diverse City Theater Co., Inc. is based in New York City. For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org.