NYC-based actor, playwright and scholar Naomi Lorrain received her M.F.A. in Graduate Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She obtained her B.A. in the History of Science, History of Medicine as well as her B.A. in African American Studies from Yale University. She most recently played Damis in Molière in the Park's virtual rendition of the 2020 NYT Critic's Pick Tartuffe with Raúl Esparza and Samira Wiley. TV credits include: Orange is the New Black (Netflix), Madam Secretary (CBS), Elementary (CBS), The Good Fight (CBS).
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HOW TO BE A WIDOW by Tori Keenan-Zelt
On a sweltering afternoon in 1864, two Civil War widows meet in a graveyard. Mirabelle is trying to paint a pineapple; Annaleigh needs to make sure that her husband hasn’t turned into a vampire. Together, the women begin to imagine the futures that might await them beyond corsets, lockets, and bullets.
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