![]() When you’re really busy having plays produced, it’s hard to audition. “When you’re a freelancer, you kind of have to go where the work is. THE ACTING THING: These days she’s onstage less than she’d like, but she’s content riding the hot hand and waiting for the right roles. ![]() Her musicals have been awarded productions and development in New York by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, the New York Musical Theatre Festival and York Theatre Company. Plays that feature strong women.ĮLSEWHERE: She has been produced off-Broadway and regionally at Florida Repertory. Says Fazio: “Having those requirements meant I wrote a play about sex, which I never would sit down to do.” Each piece had to have four characters, follow certain other restrictions and respond to the 2010 nonfiction book Sex at Dawn, which deals with the evolution of monogamy in humans. The idea, which comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, gives four writers 48 hours to create work that responds to a common source material. In May, her Split in Three, a drama about three sisters and segregation in the Mississippi Delta, circa 1969, plays Aurora Theatre’s mainstage.ĪBOUT THE FLOWER ROOM: Its genesis is a July 2015 playwriting event - known as a “bake-off” - at Emory University. It follows an uptight academic who loses her job teaching primitive sexual behavior, then explores a new career writing erotica. NEXT: In December, her full-length comedy The Flower Room is part of the Threshold New Play Festival at Actor’s Express. ( Freed Spirits tickets HERE or at 404.584.7450 through Oct. Her play Freed Spirits, about a geeky band of explorers seeking out spirits in Oakland Cemetery after a tornado, is in the midst of its world premiere at Horizon Theatre. "I feel like this is just a part of justice, but we have a long, long way to go," Strong said.BRIEF: Daryl, 44, is an actor, playwright, lyricist/librettist and graphic designer who has been in Atlanta for six years. She said she’s also working on launching an organization to advocate for nightlife worker safety and provide support for victims’ families.Īlready, Strong said the family of another security guard that was shot and killed on the job has already reached out. "It’s to ensure that they have the proper insurance, the proper training, and things like that for their employees." "The bill I want to pass is specifically for security teams, and clubs and lounges," Strong said. Mayor Andre Dickens vowed to address the issues with what he called a "Nightlife Division."Ī spokesperson for Dickens said over the weekend, the city held its first-ever training day workshop for clubs geared toward safety.īut Strong wants to take it further, with a new state law. "It’s about every single place that’s in the city that’s running without insurance or not properly protecting their employees," she said. Now that it’s closed, Strong is shifting her focus to preventing nightclub gun violence throughout Atlanta. ![]() Trash and bartending utensils were tossed near the entrance and the dumpster was overflowing. When FOX 5 cameras showed up on Monday evening, the place was already being ripped apart. "I feel like now the city is finally realizing that this really is a problem." "It started with an Encore, but it won’t end with Encore," she said. Police said 21-year-old Damon Wilson shot Ross after Wilson was ejected from the club.Įver since Ross’ girlfriend Aaliyah Strong has been on a mission to see the bar closed, and nightclub violence in Atlanta addressed. ![]() Among those who lost their lives at the club was 28-year-old Ty Ross, one of its security guards.
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