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LATEST NEWS

​FINDING MADAME CURIE​

I’m writing the book to a new musical!!
FINDING MADAME CURIE
Several songs will be featured as part of
NEW MUSICALS FOR THE NEW YEAR
to benefit the 2024 CreateTheater New Works Festival
Friday, December 15th at 7pm
Midnight Theatre 

75 Manhattan West Plaza
New York City (in the new Hudson Yards area)

Tickets from $35 to $49 plus fees
$25 Food/Beveridge minimum at tables
​TICKETS HERE!

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Farm Arts Collective tours the climate change extravaganza, DREAM ON THE FARM--The Scientists. In this romp, two scientists, Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis as they explore the contemporary world through both a micro and macroscopic lens in a journey to help humanity solve the climate crisis. 
Watch the REEL HERE!
Read NY TIMES article HERE
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Featured in the New York Times, August 14, 2021, photo by Michelle V. Agins
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Jianzi Colón-Soto
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Preston Fox
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Preston Fox and Jianzi Colón-Soto. Photo by Kent Fairfield
“Tantalizing”… "Juicy" -RoundtheWorldStage  
WATCH THE TRAILER!
What caused the feud between the Montagues and Capulets?
Nominated for Best "Adaptations & Modernizations" for 2020 & 2021 by New York Shakespeare, ​this prequel to Romeo and Juliet follows the journey of Rose from country girl to matriarch, navigating her repression and power in 16th Century Verona.
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Barefoot Shakespeare Company Cast: 
​Jianzi Colón-Soto as Rose, Andrew Dunn, Preston Fox, Marlena Holman, and Jefferson Reardon
Directed by Emily Gallagher
Fight & Intimacy Direction by Robert Aronowitz

With original music by Graham Russell of Air Supply
Costumes for Rose by Sally Ann Parsons of Parsons-Meares LTD
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Marlena Holman and Jianzi Colón-Soto
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Fourth Folio Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet with Panelists David Serero, Emily Gallagher & Melissa Bell https://youtu.be/4uSFkhUacq4
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  • Plays and Productions
    • LADY CAPULET
    • ZOE COMES HOME
    • The Scientists DREAM on the FARM
    • COURAGE
    • DEVIL & THE DEEP
    • GAME BOY
    • ICEBOX PLACENTA
    • LOST IN LOVE at the Triad
    • LOVE, SEX, ANARCHY
    • STAGED READINGS & FESTIVALS
    • Farm Arts Collective
  • PUBLICATIONS
  • BIO / Resume
  • About
  • Music & Past Lives
  • Get in Touch
  • Journal