Hannah 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.
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.
Valerie David and Ron Cohen in Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman Sherman, photo by Emily Hewitt
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
Dahlia Azamain and Salma Shaw in Abraham's Daughters by Emma Goldman Sherman, photo by Emily Hewitt
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