Eric Ulloa's Sandy Hook Play 26 PEBBLES Receives Industry Reading at Playwrights Horizons, 12/13

A private industry reading of 26 Pebbles, a new play written and directed by Eric Ulloa, will be held December 13 at Playwrights Horizons Studios at 2pm. The reading will be held on the one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Tragedy.

The cast is comprised of Ann Arvia (Mary Poppins), Ruth Gottschall (Mary Poppins), Mark Hardy (Titanic), Dena Kology, Mamie Parris (Goodspeed's The Most Happy Fella; Ragtime) and Greg Roderick (South Pacific). Danny Lindgren will be featured on guitar.

Ulloa completed more than 50 interviews with Newtown, CT, residents ranging from shop owners, to parents of students, to town workers who were touched by the Sandy Hook tragedy. Several townspeople, who are portrayed in the play, will be in attendance. Ulloa recently performed in Goodspeed's production of The Most Happy Fella.

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary school and killed 26 students and teachers before taking his own life.

"These 26 innocent deaths, like pebbles thrown into a pond, created ripples and vibrations that were felt far beyond the initial rings. This is the story of those vibrations," writes playwright Ulloa.

"Horrible things happen every day in our country, but there was something about this tragedy that grabbed a hold of me and wouldn't let go," Ulloa said in a statement. "It seemed that there was never a moment for the people of this community to grieve or to just talk out what they were feeling. I traveled to Newtown in May just wanting to hear stories and to give people a chance to unload what they've been carrying with them, and what I discovered was that their stories are lessons that we all need to be learning from. I am honored to be the one to use their words to create an evening of powerful theatre."

Ulloa, a first-generation American with Cuban roots, was born in Miami. A graduate of University of Central Florida, he has performed at Barrington Stage Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Signature Theatre, Arvada Center, Fulton Opera House, Human Race Theatre Company, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma and elsewhere. As a writer, he is also the librettist of Molly Sweeney and The Boardwalk Boys.