Donald Margulies to Appear at NYC Benefit Reading of 'JULY 7, 1994' This Month

The Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics will host a one time reading of "July 7, 1994" by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies to benefit their scholarship fund. The reading is set for Monday, March 16th, 2015 from 6 to 8:30 pm at The Dalton School: 108 East 89th Street, New York, NY 10128.

This one-act play addresses the moral distress of a young physician working hard amid divisions posed by class, race, and a broken health care system.

Following the play, there will be a discussion panel with Donald Margulies and Director of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics, Dr. Tia Powell. Light refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

All profits will go toward scholarship funds for students who have the drive and academic ability, but not the financial means, to pursue graduate education in bioethics.

The cast includes notables of stage and screen including: Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Still Alice, Rachel Getting Married, Life in Flight), Kate Jennings Grant (Frost/Nixon, Love & Other Drugs, United 93), Matthew Greer (No Country for Old Men, The Last Stand, The Mist), Joseph Grifasi (The Deer Hunter, Batman Forever, 13 Going on 30), Daphne-Rubin Vega (Wild Things, Sex and the City, Flawless) and will be directed by Charlie Polinger (Not Gay, Muckland, Anthropophobia).

Buy tickets or donate online: www.montefiore.org/playreading. Tickets: $100 general, $30 full time students with ID.

Donald Margulies received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Dinner with Friends, and was a finalist twice before for Sight Unseen and Collected Stories. His other plays include The Country House, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still and the Obie Award-winning The Model Apartment. The film of his screenplay, The End of the Tour, recently premiered at Sundance and will be released later this year. He has taught playwriting at Yale since 1990.

About The Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics: The Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics guides healthcare providers, attorneys, researchers, administrators, policymakers and students of exceptional vision as they adapt insights from scholarship to improve healthcare practice, research and policy. The Center hosts one of the oldest and most active bioethics consultation services in the country. Our Certificate Program in Bioethics and Medical Humanities celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The Masters of Science in Bioethics program is a collaboration of Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Cardozo Law, and offers an innovative curriculum blending approaches from law, medicine, philosophy and narrative ethics.

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