Helena D. Lewis's Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker returns to the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café for two shows only, Sunday, February 22, at 4:00 p.m. and Saturday, February 28, at 7p.m. in East Village, NYC. In this autobiographical one-woman play, Award-winning Actress/Poet Lewis, reveals in a dark, yet, humorous journey of a woman's account of the drama that can occur in the workplace and the results it can lead to.
After being assigned more work than she could handle, social worker Lewis has a nervous breakdown, tries to kill her boss, and is committed for psychiatric observation. While restrained in custody, Lewis recalls her true-life experiences working with prostitutes, drug addicts and prisoners, portraying a variety of characters from pimps to menopausal women. Call Me Crazy takes a unique look at the highs and lows of working for peanuts while trying to save the world one poem at a time.
Written and performed by Lewis, Call Me Crazy, winner of the 2006 prestigious Best Short Play award of the Downtown Urban Theater Festival, will perform at the Nuyorican Poets Café located on 236 East 3rd Street between Avenues B & C, in East Village, Manhattan. To purchase tickets at $15, please visit TheaterMania.com or call 212-352-3101. For additional information, e-mail CallMeCrazy@hdlpoet.com
Helena D. Lewis is proving to be a true renaissance woman in the making. Having graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelors in Biology, Lewis has gone on to become a member of the Nuyorican Poets Café 2000 National Slam Team as well as performing with various groups such as 2 Dogs & A Cat, Nubian Expressions, Uninhibited Theater Company, and the undefeated New Jersey First Wave Slam Team as well as numerous colleges. Lewis has also done freelance work for Source Magazine and currently working on her second spoken word disc "Simple Yet Complex" and is the author of "From The Gut." Aside from performing at numerous venues and colleges such as Cornell University, Seton Hall University and New York University, Lewis is a social worker who created drug addiction programs for prostitutes and currently works with male prisoners while continuing her outreach to individuals at high risk for HIV/AIDS.
