Photo Flash: The Lilly Award Foundation Celebrates Reading of Meg Miroshnik's THE TALL GIRLS

The Lilly Award Foundation presented THE TALL GIRLS, a new play by Meg Miroshnik, the final play in the "(3) Plays From The Kilroys' List: A Reading Series" at The Duke on 42nd Street on March 23, 2015. Scroll down for photos of the company!

Directed by Leigh Silverman, the cast featured Kally Duling, Alexandra Henriksen, Colbie Minifie, Sarah Steele, Erin Wilhelmi, and Anatol Yusef.

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?

"(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.

Photos by Michelle Tse at The Duke on 42nd Street.