Lilly Award Foundation's '(3) Plays From Kilroys' List' to Conclude with THE TALL GIRLS, 3/23

The Lilly Awards Foundation has announced additional casting for the final play in the Inaugural (3)Plays from The Kilroys' List: A Reading Series featuring new works by female playwrights Larissa FastHorse, Meg Miroshnik and Laura Schellhardt, with female directors Lear deBessonet, Leigh Silverman and Liesl Tommy.

Anatol Yusef ("Boardwalk Empire") joins previously announced Kally Duling ("One Bad Choice"), Alexandra Henriksen (The Snow Geese), Colbie Minifie (Punk Rock), Sarah Steele ("The Good Wife"), Erin Wilhelmi (Perks of Being a Wallflower) for the staged reading of the new play, The Tall Girls by Meg Miroshnik and directed by Leigh Silverman on Monday evening, March 23rd, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. at The Duke on 42nd Street (229 West 42nd Street).

Admission is free but reservations are strongly recommended and can be obtained at http://www.thelillyawards.org or https://www.artful.ly/the-lilly-awards-foundation.

The Tall Girls takes place in Poor Prairie - the dusty, desolate town where fifteen-and-a-half-year-old Jean has been exiled as caretaker for her wild-child cousin, Almeda. It's a grim, dangerous place to eke out an existence as a teenage girl-until a handsome man with a past arrives, a brand-new basketball in tow. As the town's girls come together to form a team set on making it out of Poor Prairie, a murky committee of townspeople threatens to stamp out girls' sports altogether. Inspired by the flourishing and decline of high school girls' basketball teams in the 1930s rural Midwest, The Tall Girls asks: Who can afford the luxury of play? And what is the cost of childhood?

After each reading, attendees are invited to join the artists and members of The Lilly Awards at "AfterChats" hosted by The Interval (www.the-interval.com), a new website dedicated to female voices in theatre. The "AfterChats" will be held at Bea Restaurant (403 West 43rd Street) and will offer guests the chance to discuss the plays, learn more about getting involved with the community, and to mingle and be merry over snacks and wine. To stay updated on all the AfterChat fun, follow @TheIntervalNY on Twitter.

(3)Plays from the Kilroys' List: A Reading Series was created to support the Lilly Awards Foundation's mission to promote gender parity at all levels of theatrical production, and develop and celebrate the work of women in the theater. Released by The Kilroys in 2014, THE LIST consists of the 46 plays most recommended by industry leaders in a national survey of the best underproduced plays by female and trans* playwrights. It was created as "a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female voices in the American theater."

The Lilly Awards Foundations launched the inaugural 3-play series with the new play, The Comparables by Laura Schellhardt with direction by Lear deBessonet. The cast featured Cassie Beck, America Ferrerra and Kate Mulgrew. The series continued Monday, March 16th at 7:00 p.m. with the staged reading What Would Crazy Horse Do? by Larissa FastHorse and directed by Leigh Silverman, the cast featured Emily Berg, Jason Grasl, Slate Holmgren and Madeline Sayet

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