BLOOD/MONEY Staged Reading Comes To Marin Theatre's Nu Werkz Series 5/11, 5/12

Marin Theatre Company Nu Werkz Series presents BLOOD / MONEY by A. Zell Williams | directed by Jon Tracy: A staged reading

Winner of the 2008 David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize: Blood / Money by A. Zell Williams- MTC's Nu Werkz series presents staged readings of works by new and emerging playwrights.

Four years after the passing of an African American family's matriarch, the Solomon children are still coping with their loss. The patriarch is a rolling stone, bred from the Black Power movement. In between these monuments of the American family, the son and daughter try to define their own lives outside of their parents' legacy. A. Zell Williams' Blood / Money is a powerful and insightful 21st century reaction to August Wilson's influential 20th century masterpiece Fences.

Monday, May 11 and Tuesday, May 12, 7:30 PM

A. Zell Williams (Playwright) was one of two inaugural African-American Fellows with Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, where he currently resides. He was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley of California and started his career as an actor in the San Francisco Bay Area. His full-length plays include: Blood / Money, A Civil Play, Shooter, and The Straight Dope, and he has also written several one-acts. Zell holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Santa Clara University and was a member of the 2006 Writer's Pool for PlayGround.

Jon Tracy (Director) works with MTC, A.C.T., Magic Theatre, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre, Z Space, Sonoma County Repertory Theatre, AlterTheater, Woman's Will, New Conservatory Theatre, Oberlin Dance Collective, and many other Bay Area theaters. He is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Meritorious Achievement Award, fifteen North Bay Arty Awards, a Sacramento Elly Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of Solano College Theatre's Actor Training Program, Jon is an Affiliate Artist with The Foothill Theatre Company, a Company Member of PlayGround, an Associate Artist at The Berkeley Playhouse, Director of Artistic Development for SF Playhouse, and a founder of Darkroom Productions.

WHERE: Boyer Theatre | Marin Theatre Company | 397 Miller Ave, Mill Valley CA 94941

TICKETS: All performances are FREE. Call to reserve tickets.
Box Office, 415.388.5208 or www.marintheatre.org.