The Theater Project Presents A Free Staged Reading Of FANNY AND WALT On 4/18

The Theater Project, Union County College's Professional Theater Company, will continue its popular series of staged-readings Opening Nights on Saturday Afternoons, with Jewel Seehaus-Fisher’s award-winning play, Fanny and Walt, on April 18 at 3:00 p.m.

This series of free monthly staged readings of original plays from The Theater Project's Playwrights Workshop is held at Union County College's Cranford campus, which is located at 1033 Springfield Avenue.

Fanny and Walt is an award-winning play about Fanny Fern, the highest paid columnist, man or woman, in the 1850's and her brief affair with Walt Whitman, self-published poet of Leaves of Grass. Fern loaned Whitman the money to publish his second edition of his poems and praised him in her weekly column. The time is pre-Civil War New York, 1856, and it very much is about what an unconventional woman could accomplish, the obstacles in her way, and what a genius poet might mean to her life.

Jewel Seehaus-Fisher’s full-length plays include Fanny and Walt, Trio Sonata, Gesualdo, Wilde in Leadville and Wilde Night In The Rockies. Her work has been produced in New York City, San Francisco and at several theaters in New Jersey.  A resident of Highland Park, Ms. Seehaus-Fisher is a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Playwriting.

Opening Nights on Saturday Afternoons is a series of original plays by members of The Theater Project's Playwrights Development Workshop, led by Mark Spina, Artistic Director. These script-in-hand performances offer the excitement and immediacy of actually sitting in on rehearsals with talented members of the Theater Project. The next free stage-reading reading will be held on May 9.

For more information, call (908) 659-5189; email TheaterProject@aol.com; or visit www.TheTheaterProject.org. The Theater Project is wheelchair accessible.

Admission to Opening Nights on Saturday Afternoon play reading series is free of charge, thanks to the support of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Union County College Foundation, a HEART grant (History-Education-Arts-Reaching- Thousands) from the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the generosity of Ms.
Stephanie Fein and Ms. Marion Curka.

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