Florencia Lozano and Dea Julien Set for Staged Reading of BARABBAS

Florencia Lozano (Téa Delgado on One Life To Live and currently featured as Claudia Messina on Narcos) and Dea Julien (Stet, The Blueprint Specials, Queen Mair) have been cast in a staged reading of BARABBAS, a play by Matthew J. Wells on Monday March 6, 7pm at the Bernie Wohl Center.

When an anti-government demonstration turns into a riot in a small Central American country, three women face the death penalty under a new anti-terrorist law. For political reasons, behavioral psychologist Ramona Ignacio (Karina Richardson) is forced to discover which one poses the greatest threat to the state. Which two live? Which one dies? And is there a way to save all three?

BARABBAS features a mostly female cast, featuring Karina Richardson, Paula Pizzi (Smurfs movie, City of Angels), Rocky Vega (Witches of Norwood; Girls Will Be Girls) and others. Directed by Courtney Wetzel (The Accident/Frigid Festival; Queen Mair).

BARABBAS has been selected as a semi-finalist at this year's O'Neill National Playwright's Conference. Wells's play BEAUTIFUL DAY (a 2013 finalist at the National Theatre Conference) was performed at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte's 2016 nuVoices Festival and won fourth prize in the 2016 Hope & Optimism Competition); and his short play ROMEO AND ROSALINE was performed and published as part of the 2015 Red Bull Theater Short Play Festival.

BARABBAS is part of the NEW WORKS SERIES 2017, presented by the 29th Street Playwrights Collective, a developmental group supporting mature emerging playwrights and committed to gender parity.

The Collective will also be producing the FUTURE IS FEMALE FESTIVAL of short plays by Women Playwrights on March 22 at the Bernie Wohl Center. FREE, please RSVP @ Eventbrite. Donation of $10 appreciated.