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Photo Flash: World Premiere Reading of THIS IS ME Takes Place This Week!

By: Nov. 11, 2018
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With less than a week away for the World Premiere of the Public Reading of "This is Me", the cast and crew got together to celebrate in a brand new photo shoot.

With pictures taken by Stephan Byc, and directed by Yudelka Heyer, each team member had their chance to shine. The theme was Female Power, showing a little side of the character that each actor is portraying, with a combination of their own personality.

"This is Me" is a comedy written by a woman, directed by a woman, for women of all ages!

Set in Present Time, 2018, NEW YORK CITY: A group of six women from different backgrounds; NATALIA, CAMILLA, BRITTNEY, AUTUMN, ANA and EVE; find themselves at ´THE HAPPY, YOUTH AND FOREVER HEALTH CENTER´ attending a self help group on how to be a proper woman. All led to this place either on false pretenses, confusion, or by force, they try to figure out together who decided that there should be a manual on how to be a "lady". One by one, they start talking about their lives; touching subjects being dealt with nowadays: from unfairness of being a woman at the workplace, harassment in different spaces (public, work, private settings), self love, transitioning from male to female, family values, soulmates, the idea of perfect beauty, to the theory that the image of "the vagina" has been displayed as an ugly monster in the media. By sharing every piece of their souls, and proving that gender is just a form of biological distinction, they start connecting and embracing one another. But who is in charge at ´The Happy, Youth and Forever Health Center´? And why is a Voice on a Speaker the women's only source of communication in there?

Presented by Red Soil Productions, "This is Me" was written by Barbara Bernardi and is directed by Yudelka Heyer.

Cast and crew are Barbara Bernardi, Hannah Ciesil, Alana DeGregorio, Yudelka Heyer, Katherine Lieblang, Gabriela Lopez Hernandez, Claire-Monique Martin, Tiffany Peach, Idalis Rideout, Constanza Villanueva.

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Cast and Crew. Left to right: Yudelka Heyer, Barbara Bernardi, Alana DeGregorio, Idalis Rideout, Tiffany Peach, Katherine Lieblang, Hannah Ciesil, Claire-Monique Marting, Gabriela Lopez Hernandez. / P

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Claire-Monique Martin, cast member as The Voice. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Katherine Lieblang, cast member as Autumn. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Alana DeGregorio, cast member as Camilla. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Tiffany Peach, cast member as Brittney. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Idalis Rideout, cast member as Eve. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Gabriela Lopez Hernandez, cast member as Ana. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Hannah Ciesil, Stage Manager. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Barbara Bernardi, Writer - Producer - cast member as Natalia. / Photo by Stephan Byc.

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Yudelka Heyer, Director - Producer. / Photo by Stephan Byc.




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