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Celebrated actress Joan Allen stars in this one-night-only performance of the acclaimed memoir by Jacki Lyden, NPR host and correspondent and award-winning journalist, that recounts her experience growing up with a colorful and dramatic mother living with manic depression. Joan Allen has received three Academy Award nominations; she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Nixon and The Crucible, and for Best Actress for The Contender. Allen has also starred in Pleasantville, The Notebook, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. Allen is also one of the New York theatre world’s most honored actresses and winner of every major prize for her work on and off-Broadway, including the Best Actress Tony Award for her performance opposite John Malkovich in Lanford Wilson’s ’Burn This.’ The director, producer, and writers of this staged reading are also collaborating to bring Daughter of the Queen of Sheba to the big screen: Director Daniel Barnz was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2007 and one of Variety’s Top Ten Directors to Watch 2008 (his feature directorial debut was Phoebe in Wonderland, which premiered in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was released nationally in 2009, with Felicity Huffman and Elle Fanning; his upcoming film, Still I Rise, starring Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Holly Hunter, Rosie Perez and Ving Rhames, will appear in theaters in 2012). The producer, Susan Cartsonis, is the president of Storefront Pictures (she has produced Firelight, Where the Heart Is, What Women Want, Aquamarine, and Beastly, and was the executive producer of The Mistress of Spices and No Reservations). Karen Croner and Jacki Lyden have written the screenplay of Lyden's memoir and also created the script for this performance. (Karen Croner is an award-winning screenwriter known for such movies as One True Thing and Scattered Dreams. Current movies written by Croner include Admission for Tina Fey directed by Paul Weitz, Hello Ghost to be directed by Chris Columbus, and Tribes of Palos Verdes starring Soarise Ronin.)
The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College is located at East 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, New York, NY 10021.
Tickets and Packages: $125, $300, $500, $1,000, $2,500, $5,000.
Contact: Robyn Marks, 212-582-0341, ext 1288 or rmarks@fountainhouse.org.
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