Jamaican actor Miranda Melhado has joined the solid of the staged studying of Karl O’Brian Williams’ award-winning drama Not About Eve, which might be featured as a part of the Atlantic Theater Firm’s Caribbean MixFest.
The competition, celebrating Caribbean tales and expertise, runs from September 14 to twenty on the Atlantic Stage 2 Theater in New York Metropolis.
The one-night-only presentation of Not About Eve will happen on Wednesday, September 18, at 7 p.m. Melhado will star alongside fellow Jamaican actors Heather Alicia Simms, identified for her position in Broadway’s Purlie Victorious, and Mitzie Pratt, who appeared in Amazon Prime’s Nanny. The manufacturing might be directed by award-winning Jamaican filmmaker and actress Patrice Johnson Chevannes, whose intensive credit embrace Broadway’s The Crucible and Shakespeare Theater of DC’s Othello reverse Sir Patrick Stewart.
Set in modern-day Jamaica, Not About Eve explores the complicated relationships between three generations of ladies within the Shields household—’Mama’ Agatha Rochester (Pratt), her daughter Katherine (Simms), and her granddaughter Kimberly (Melhado). Residing underneath the identical roof however emotionally distant, the anniversary of Katherine’s husband’s loss of life forces the ladies to confront painful truths and check the bonds between them. The play, which premiered in Kingston, Jamaica in 2006, gained the 2007 Worldwide Theatre Institute Actor Boy Award for Greatest New Jamaican Play. It later made its New York Metropolis debut in 2012 and was an official choice of the 2013 Nationwide Black Theatre Competition.
For Melhado, the position of Kimberly Shields is one other breakthrough. She was final seen on the New York stage within the acclaimed American premiere of Alwin Bully’s McBee, and she or he stars within the horror function Amityville Vampire, now streaming on Amazon Prime. “I’m very excited to be a part of such an incredible solid of fellow Jamaican actors and to be working underneath the route of the multi-talented Patrice Johnson Chevannes,” Melhado shared. “In Not About Eve, Karl has created a household of three extremely robust, complicated feminine characters who’re financially safe however emotionally challenged. Relationships between moms and daughters may be troublesome, and that is actually the case on this intriguing play. So I’m wanting ahead to bringing Kimberly to life and providing audiences a memorable expertise on September 18.”
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Melhado, who grew up in Jamaica with Syrian and Portuguese roots, expressed how uncommon it’s for her to play a Jamaican character: “No one I meet ever guesses that I’m Jamaican. They suppose Brazilian, Italian, Latin American and even Greek. So I by no means get solid as Jamaican. My position as Kimberly presents me a brand new alternative to play somebody from my homeland in one other partaking Jamaican story, which is nice since we now have so many thrilling Jamaican and Caribbean tales to share. Caribbean MixFest is an actual probability to do this.”
Since its founding in 1985, the Off-Broadway Atlantic Theater Firm has produced over 200 performs, together with Tony Award-winning Broadway productions reminiscent of Spring Awakening, The Band’s Go to, and Kimberly Akimbo. Caribbean MixFest is the corporate’s annual free studying collection that celebrates culturally numerous tales in theater. Along with Not About Eve, this 12 months’s competition will function readings of full-length performs by Nelson Diaz-Marcano, Fedna Jacquet, Iraisa Ann Reilly, and La Daniella.
Not About Eve might be carried out on the Atlantic Stage 2 Theater, positioned at 330 West sixteenth Road, New York, NY. Admission to all MixFest readings is free, however reservations are required. To order tickets, go to AtlanticTheater.org.
