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Join us for a FREE reading
and post-play conversation with playwright/actor Jenny Mercein
Friday, April 1, @ 8 pm
Saturday, April 2, @ 8 pm
Sunday, April 3, @ 2 pm
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Admission is free but reservations are strongly
encouraged as seating is limited. Our theatre is equipped with
MERV-11 filters throughout our HVAC system, as well as MERV-18 air
purifier units and sanitizing stations. Proof of vaccination and
masks are required.
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About Two Elizas
A new solo show by Jenny Mercein, Two
Elizas explores women's rights, motherhood, and loss. The
piece juxtaposes the true story of Mercein's ancestor Eliza Mercein
Barry's 1847 U.S. Supreme Court case Barry v
Mercein regarding the custody of her daughter with Mercein's own
complicated journey to motherhood. Two Elizas candidly
explores the taboo topics of mental illness and miscarriage, aiming
to spark conversation around women's rights, intergenerational
trauma, and loss. Though separated by over 150 years, both women
experience the pressure on women to marry, the pain of losing a
child, and the resilience required of and inspired by motherhood.
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About
the Artist
JENNY MERCEIN is an actor,
teacher, director, and writer currently living in New Orleans,
where she is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University. She is
proud a producer of Roleplay, a play and
documentary film project exploring student perspectives on love,
sex, power, and consent. The Roleplay script
is now available from Dramatic Publishing. The
documentary film of the same title is currently in post-production
and was part of the 2021 Gotham Documentary Feature Lab (formerly
IFP). Her short play Auld Lang Syne was
published in the 2020 anthology Alone, Together. Along with
KJ Sanchez, Jenny is the co-creator of the acclaimed docudrama X's and O's, about
football and traumatic brain injury (Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center
Stage). Directing credits include Grýla- Not For
Children (RVK Fringe Festival, Iceland, KC Fringe,
Kansas City), Gratitude Assignment (Tulane),
The Metromaniacs (Tulane), Dancing at Lughnasa (Tulane-Big Easy
Nomination for Best University Production), Too Much Water (UCSB), and Heathers the Musical (Out of the Box
Theatre, Santa Barbara). Acting credits include “Your Honor,”
“NCIS: New Orleans,” "30 Rock," "Blue Bloods,"
"Unforgettable," "Law & Order" and
extensive theater credits spanning the country, including
three previous solo shows. A proud member of AEA and
SAG-AFTRA, Jenny received her B.A. in Theater Studies and the
History of Art from Yale and her M.F.A. in Acting from The
University of Washington.
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Two
Elizas is part of the New Jersey Theatre
Alliance 2022 Stages Festival, made possible by support from the
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the
National Endowment for the Arts; Bank of America; The Horizon
Foundation for New Jersey; OceanFirst Foundation; New Jersey
Historical Commission.
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