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PictureHannah Roze, Valerie David and Ron Cohen in Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman Sherman, photo by Emily Hewitt
ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS, by Emma Goldman-Sherman,  received a reprised staged reading as part of the 29th Street Playwrights Collective New Works Series on Monday, December 12, 7pm, at the Bernie Wohl Center.
The play was first presented at Urban Stages on 9/11 2016 as part of the Lady Liberty Festival to combat Islamophobia, and further developed at Intersections International this December.

ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS, by Emma Goldman-Sherman, explores issues of identity (Jewish-American, Palestinian, Muslim, lesbian), oppression, occupation and feminism.

ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS is set during the first Intifada at the same moment the Oslo Accords were being developed in the summer of 1993. Inspired on the story of Abraham, Sarah, and Haajar, and based on firsthand accounts of Palestinian refugees in Gaza, Ramallah and Nablus during the first Intifada, ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS is the story of Abraham Abramowitz, a Jew from Queens, who moves to Tel Aviv to bury his wife and live out his final days in the hopes of achieving his destiny as the Father of Nations. When he finds his previously
unknown Palestinian- Muslim family, he struggles to get his American descendants to accept them as kin.


Directed by Lorca Peress (Multistages Artistic Director), with Dahlia Azama (Veil'd -- The Women's Project Theater), Ron Cohen (This Lingering Life, Sonnets 3 and 22, New York Shakespeare Exchange Sonnet Project), Valerie David (The Pink Hulk: One Woman's Journey to Find the Superhero Within), Hannah Roze (originated the role of Marie Marville in The Final Days of Vincent Van Gogh), and two-time Helen HayesAward recipient, Salma Shaw (This Time), Stage directions read by Ruba Mansouri.
Emma Goldman-Sherman is a playwright, teacher and the Resident Dramaturg of 29th Street Playwrights Collective and Great Plains Theatre Conference. She teaches playwriting and poetry/spoken word to adults and at-risk youth via New York Writers Workshop. Recent plays include Hare Today for #Every28Hours, a response to Ferguson, and Traffick for the 1 Minute Play Festival at the New Ohio this past June. She was named a Risky Playwright by Cutting Ball Theatre of San Francisco for 2014 and 2015.


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Valerie David and Ron Cohen in Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman Sherman, photo by Emily Hewitt
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Ron Cohen and Dahlia Azamain Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman Sherman, photo by Emily Hewitt
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Hannah Roze and Ron Cohen in Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman Sherman, photo by Emily Hewitt
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Dahlia Azamain and Salma Shaw in Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman Sherman, photo by Emily Hewitt
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  • Our Mission
  • New Works 2023
  • DONATE
  • Meet the Artists
    • Melissa Bell
    • Edgar Chisholm
    • Marthe Rachel Gold
    • Maxine Kern
    • Catherine Rogers
    • Michael Wells-Oakes
    • Emeritis Members >
      • Emma Goldman-Sherman
      • Paul Hufker
      • Gabrielle Maisels
      • Robin Rice
      • Julie Richardson
      • Carrie Robbins
      • David Sard
      • Matthew Wells
      • Suzanne Willett
  • New Works 2022
    • Global Excursions by Maxine Kern
    • Love Triangle: A Trilogy
  • New Works Series 2020/21
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2019
  • NEW WORKS SERIES 2018
    • FUKT by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • GLORIOUS DISASTER by Caroline Prugh
    • THE DIAMOND EATER by Carrie Robbins
    • EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD by Robin Rice
    • LEAVE PHILADELPHIA, NEVER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • TOM & TED GO TO THE RACES
  • New Works Series 2017
    • BARABBAS by Matthew Wells
    • THE DEATH AND LIFE OF DR. CUTTER by Carrie Robbins
    • LADY CAPULET by Melissa Bell
    • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • MAN & WIFE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
    • SURVIVORS by James Masten
    • LUST & LIES by ROBIN RICE
    • BREATH TO BREATH by Michael Wells-Oakes & Max Balton
  • New Works Series 2016
    • QUEEN MAIR by Matthew Wells
    • LOVE, SEX, ANARCHY by Melissa Bell
    • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
    • SHADOWS by David Sard
    • BONGANI by Gabrielle Maisels
    • LIFE AND OTHER DISASTERS by Julie Richardson
    • A COLD DECEMBER by Michael Wells-Oakes
    • ABRAHAM'S DAUGHTERS by Emma Goldman-Sherman >
      • Stage one readings >
        • MAGICAL THINKING by Carrie Robbins
        • LIFE, & OTHER DISASTERS by Julie RIchardson
        • WHORTICULTURE by Emma Goldman-Sherman
  • Success Stories
  • Michael Warren Powell Memorial Reading
  • The UNaguration
  • Feisty Women Festival
  • Support New Work
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  • The Future Is Female Festival
  • Write Now Workshop
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    • Freewriting Rules
    • March 2017 Prompt
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