Jimmy Smits & Jenn Colella to Star in DEADLINE Reading, 3/26

A reading of DEADLINE, written and directed by Sabina Berman and starring Jimmy Smits and Jenn Colella, will be presented at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theater at the Pershing Square Signature Center on March 26, 2012 ar 7:30PM.

The staged reading will be followed by a TalkBack with Sabina Berman, the original play's translator Lisa Dillman, and Prof. Jean Graham-Jones, CUNY.

Sabina Berman is one of Mexico´s most prominent and multifaceted writers. Playwright, story-teller, essayist, film and theater director. Her novel ME (Diving into the heart of the world) appeared in 2011 in Spanish and has been published in 11 languages. Ms. Berman's plays have been produced in Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Canada and the United States. This marks the first reading of Deadline in the U.S.A.

A renowned publisher of a major newspaper has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. He must name his successor to the newspaper's concerned Board. It's Christmas Eve and a blizzard is raging outdoors. He summons to his office one of the two candidates he is considering for the job: Miky, the star editor he trained at the paper twenty years prior. Throughout the course of the night, an inevitable collision of adrenalin and testosterone ensues. Deadline is about what we don't dare admit about sex and gender when faced with the competition for power and control.

Jimmy Smits' television credits include his Emmy-nominated guest starring role in Showtime's Dexter and The West Wing, in which he portrayed Presidential candidate Matt Santos. He received six consecutive Emmy nominations for his acting on L.A. Law, winning in 1990, and five more nominations for his role on NYPD Blue, for which he also received a Golden Globe Award. Smits' film career includes blockbusters such as Star Wars: Episode II and III. He was most recently seen in Mother and Child, opposite Annette Bening and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, and Backyard, Mexico's official Oscar submission for Foreign Language Film. His NY theatre credits include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz and God of Carnage on Broadway, and the Shakespeare in the Park's production of Much Ado about Nothing, among many others. He has appeared in numerous regional productions such as Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden, directed by Robert Egan at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Jimmy Smits was TeatroStageFest 2010's Spokesperson.

Jenn Colella has been a familiar face in the New York theatre scene since her starring role as Sissy in Broadway's Urban Cowboy, for which she received an Outer Critic's Circle Award Nomination. Since then she has appeared in Broadway's High Fidelity, starred in the world premiere of The Times They Are A-Changin' (Old Globe Theatre), and recently performed in Beautiful Girls, a musical tribute to Stephen Sondheim at the World Festival of Theatre in Colorado Springs. She has also acted in numerous Off-Broadway productions such as Lucky Guy and Slut. On television, Jenn was the co-host of ‘Can You Tell?’ (Oxygen Network), and has appeared in ABC's ‘The Cashmere Mafia’, FX's ‘Rescue’ Me, CBS's ‘The Good Wife’ and, most recently, on PBS's ‘Tribute to Stephen Sondheim’ with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. Her film credits include Uncertainty, directed by Scott MacGehee & David Siegel.

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