Emma Goldman-Sherman
Last year when Michael died, I got busy creating the Inaugural Michael Warren Powell Memorial Reading which is now a yearly event at the Dramatists Guild Fund's Music Hall. I have a gentleman in my writing workshop by the name of James Masten whose first full length play Survivors was just getting ready to need to be read. It is a beautiful play about a gay man who is about to get married when he starts to self-sabotage because he feels guilty for surviving the AIDS crisis years ago. It is a play I thought Michael would enjoy because it is true and sad and very funny too. Thucydides, the Historian is a character, as are characters from the more recent past. That play has now been developed to the point where 29th Street Playwrights Collective will be producing a New Works Reading of it this October (and providing the writer a grant of $500 from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council). And this year's 2nd Annual Michael Warren Powell Memorial Reading is called After the Party by Michelle Ghatan. It will take place at the Dramatists Guild Fund's Music Hall on Wednesday July 19th at 4pm. Anyone interested in welcome to join us for free. I feel blessed to be able to honor Michael's memory this way with plays by early career writers just starting out. It was a great blessing for me to have known Michael and feel his support of my work, and I want others to know his support and have the blessing of his memory too.
Monday July 10, 2017 at 8:44 am
