'Call Me Crazy' Returns to Nuyorican Cafe Sept. 25- Oct. 5

Helena D. Lewis's Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker makes a much-anticipated return to the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café for a special two-week engagement from September 25 through October 5 in East Village, NYC. In this autobiographical one-woman play, Award-winning Actress/Poet Lewis, reveals in a dark, yet, humorous journey of a woman's account of the drama that can go down in the workplace and the results it can lead to.

After being assigned more work than she could handle, social worker Lewis has a nervous breakdown, tries to kill her boss, and is committed for psychiatric observation. While restrained in custody, Lewis recalls her true-life experiences working with prostitutes, drug addicts and prisoners, portraying a variety of characters from pimps to menopausal women. Call Me Crazy takes a unique look at the highs and lows of working for peanuts while trying to save the world one poem at a time.

Premiered at the 2006 Downtown Urban Theater Festival and went on to win the prestigious Best Short Play award, Call Me Crazy, runs Thursday, September 25, through Sunday, October 5, at the Nuyorican Poets Café, 236 East 3rd Street between Avenues B & C, in East Village, Manhattan. All shows start at 7 p.m. except on Sundays, shows start at 4 p.m. To purchase tickets at $15, please visit TheaterMania.com or call 212-352-3101. For more information or to RSVP, call 212-414-7721 or e-mail CallMeCrazy@hdlpoet.com

Helena D. Lewis is proving to be a true renaissance woman in the making. Having graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelors in Biology, Lewis has gone on to become a member of the Nuyorican Poet's Café 2000 National Slam Team as well as performing with various groups such as 2 Dogs & A Cat, Nubian Expressions, Uninhibited Theater Company, and the undefeated New Jersey First Wave Slam Team as well as numerous colleges. Lewis has also done freelance work for Source Magazine and currently working on her second spoke word disk "Simple Yet Complex" and is the author of "From The Gut." Aside from performing at numerous venues and colleges such as Cornell University, Seton Hall University and New York University, Lewis is a social worker who created a drug addiction programs for prostitutes and currently works with male prisoners and performs outreach to individuals at high risk for HIV/AIDS

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