Playreading: Celebrity Dream Date by Keenya Jackson.
Thursday, October 12
7:30 PM
$15
BYOB welcome with $5 suggested donation
About the Play:
Sisters Sky and Leva’s aunt have recently passed away. While cleaning out her house, Sky finds her aunt's journal that chronicles a steamy love affair to none other than...Harry Belafonte. Inspired by their aunt Jo, Sky and Leva create the Celebrity Dream Date app.
Cast:
Sky: Sabrina Boyd-Surka
Leva: Brittany Fauzer
CDD voice and all male roles: Devante Evans
About the Playwright:
Keenya J. Jackson is an emerging Philadelphia playwright and author and one of the organizers of Media Arts Council play reading series- along with the wonderful Julie Zaffarano and Dave Ebersole. Keenya is a co-founders of Jouska PlayWorks at Simpatico Theatre in Philadelphia and a member of The Foundry, A Playwrights Lab at PlayPenn in Philadelphia. Her play The Return of the Shogun, the first play that she had read at MAC, was a 2023 semi-finalist for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF). Readings series like this one at Media Arts Council helped to make that possible.
Keenya has a passion for Young Adult literature, this has led to her completing her first YA novel Much Ado About Something, co-authored with Sarah Hyson.
This is her second reading at MAC – she is very excited.
The Media Arts Council (MAC) Play Reading Series was created by playwrights Julie Zaffarano, Dave Ebersole, and Keenya Jackson, in partnership with the MAC to create a space for local playwrights to hear their work read by talented actors and receive feedback from a public audience. The only regular new play reading series in the area, it brings exciting new stories to Delaware County.