Written by: A.A. Cristi
Aug. 30, 2023
Broadwayworld.com
NewYorkRep celebrates 10 years of producing theatre that inspires social change with a dinner benefit event on September 18 at Harbor Lights Yacht – Skyport Marina (2430 FDR Drive, NYC).
Honoring five women who have impacted theatre, the benefit evening celebrates NewYorkRep founder Gayle D. Waxenberg, and producer and an theatre artist advocate Nan Barnett, playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks (War Words, H*tler’s Tasters), playwright Gloria J. Browne Marshall (Shot: Caught A Soul, Dreams of Emmett Till), and director and NewYorkRep Artistic Director Sarah Norris (War Words, H*tler’s Tasters). Benefit tickets, starting at $200, are available online at www.givebutter.com/NYR-10-Year-Celebration through Sept. 8.
The evening’s entertainment celebrating the honorees and female theater artists will be hosted by female veteran comic Linette Palladino.
“The roster of women we are honoring are trailblazers, and have contributed to all different aspects of theater,” says NewYorkRep founder Gayle D. Waxenberg. “They deserve to be celebrated. Additionally, they have contributed to NewYorkRep’s growth and have become a part of our family…”
“GLORIA J. BROWNE-MARSHALL is an award-winning legal correspondent, columnist recently selected for a Pulitzer Center grant for her enhanced virtual stage-play SHOT: Caught a Soul. SHOT depicts a Black teen haunting the White police officer who shot him. She is working on Dreams of Emmett Till a play updating that tragic encounter as well as CLASS the racial fight over the American Dream. Gloria attended the MFA program in playwrighting at Sarah Lawrence College and the Commercial Theater Institute’s Broadway Producing program. Gloria is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY). She teaches constitutional law, race and politics, gender and justice, and evidence classes. Prof. Browne-Marshall was a civil rights attorney full-time prior to joining the faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Gloria litigated cases for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and the NAACP LDF. She was a law clerk in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as well as in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia. She studied Political Science at the University of Ibadan, in Ibadan, Nigeria. Prof. Browne-Marshall’s books include the most recent She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power as well as The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice, and a textbook The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts. Her seminal book Race, Law, and American Society connects 400 years of American legal racial history. Gloria has provided Supreme Court commentary on CNN International, MSNBC, France24, BBC, NPR and WBAI radio and newspapers nationally. “Law of the Land” is the title of her radio show and podcast. Prof. Browne-Marshall has received many awards for her work on equality under law. She speaks nationally and internationally on constitutional and human rights issues. She has addressed audiences in France at the American Library in Paris. She met with the Secretary of State and Secretary of Culture in Luanda, Angola, while conducting research there on Queen Nzingha. Gloria was an exchange scholar to England’s Bramshill Police College. Prof. Browne-Marshall presented an Intervention before the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on racial injustices in the American criminal justice system. She has raised concerns about police brutality and criminal in-justices in the United States for over 20 years, speaking across America, and in France, England, Wales, and Canada. Twitter: @GBrowneMarshal..”