DELIVER: Letters to the Motherland from a Foreign Body — A Public Staged Reading

Written by Liz Morgan

Directed by Zoey Martinson

ABOUT THE PLAY:

This poetic homage to immigrants focuses on three characters who all find themselves feeling unsafe in the place they call home: A young black doctor practicing medicine in rural America; her patient, a pregnant woman with a dark past; and a mysterious foreign body who must journey to a new world.

LOCATION*:

The Pete at The Flea Theater**, 20 Thomas St., New York, NY 10007. Directions to The Flea Theater can be found here.

*We acknowledge that the land on which this performance will take place is the traditional and unceded territory of the Munsee Lenape. We, The Fled Collective community, acknowledge that theatre institutions, indeed the nation-state itself, was founded upon and continues to enact exclusions and erasures of Indigenous Peoples.

ACCESSIBILITY:

The main entrance to the building and theatre are wheelchair accessible. To reserve your wheelchair accessible seat, please email bri@thefled.com after you have reserved your ticket through Eventbrite. Thank you!

COVID POLICY:

In order to protect you (our beloved audience), our Artists, Production team, members, and building staff, both the wearing of face masks AND proof of COVID-19 vaccination are required for entry by both The Fled Collective and The Flea Theater. Proof of vaccination (either a physical copy or a picture of it) must be presented at the box office, and a face mask must be worn properly (covering the nose, mouth, and chin), or you will not be permitted to enter the theater and you will be discharged. Additionally, The Fled Collective asks that you please stay home if you are feeling any symptoms.

Please note: The actors performing will not be wearing masks on stage, however you will be expected to remain masked at all times when inside The Flea Theater.

CAST:

Storm Thomas

Muge Karagulle

Marcus Jones

Lori Laing

Georgia Kate Cohen

Chris Dunlop

Dolores Avery Pereira

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:

Liz Morgan (she/her) is a writer and performer best known for her work “Why I was Late Today…” (Huffington Post). Her full length play, Deliver: Letters to the Motherland from a Foreign Body (2019 Kilroys List Honorable Mention) received previous development with Amios and Fresh Ground Pepper. Her other plays include her solo show, Deep $h*t, as well as Breaking & Entering , Our Father, A Matter of Taste and The Clark Doll which was featured at the 2019 Deep Water Literary Festival and nominated for a 2018 Drammy Award in the category of Best Original Script after its west coast premiere. Other theatre honors include TCG’s Rising Leaders of Color, The Torchbearer for Black Theatre Award, NBT’s I AM SOUL Playwrights’ Residency (Finalist), Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship (Semi-Finalist) and the New Works Lab at Stratford (Semi-Finalist). MFA: Brown University/Trinity Rep. www.LizMorganOnline.com

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Zoey Martinson (she/her) is an award-winning writer/ director in film and theater. Her work focuses on nuanced stories from the Diaspora. Born on the Menominee Nation, and then living in Africa, London and the USA, has given her work a unique lens into the stories she tells. Her theater company Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative creates work around social justice themes and has toured internationally presenting and organizing Arts Missions for the United States Consulate General. Her short film The Fisherman, shot in Ghana, won the Programmer's Award for Short Narrative at the PAFF 2019, finalist HBO Shorts at ABFF, Cinquest, Brussels Short Film Festival, Winner of Diversity in Cannes 2020. The Fisherman is streaming on HBO. She was commissioned by Tribeca Studios to create the short Cupids, for their 8:46 initiative premiering at Tribeca Film Festival 2021, airing on BET & CBS moderated by Gayle King. Her award winning short film ‘La Oposición’ played at Casa Mexico Program SXSW 2019, distributed by Aspire TV. Her play Olityelwe won the NYCFringe award for best play and ran off broadway 59E59 Street Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, then toured to South Africa and the UK. Skype Duet won the 100 Grand award at HAU2 Theater, Berlin then toured Europe and Australia. Her play The Alien Nation was workshopped at Lincoln Center Education and BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Directed the world premiere of Gutting by Jeremy Kamps at the National Black Theater / Company Cypher. Created/Directed interactive #HashtagProject at the Transmediale Festival in Berlin. Her musical Dreamer commissioned by The Kennedy Center, workshopped at South African State Theater. Director/ Creator of immersive Off Broadway show The Black History Museum... According to the United States of America that premiered fall 2019 at HERE. Published in five anthologies. Named one of the 18 Women Making Black History by Popsugar.com. www.ZoeyMartinson.com

ABOUT THE FLED COLLECTIVE:

The Fled is an artist Collective providing a radically equitable, anti-racist, anti-oppressive platform for theater artists — to build community, expand their artistry, and make theatre that is actively engaged in our collective liberation and the dismantling of colonialist practices and white ideals. With artists at the helm, particularly our global-majority and historically marginalized artists, we lead our community with curiosity, empathy, and celebration. www.TheFled.com

**This performance will take place at The Flea Theater, where The Fled Collective is currently in residence as The Flea's Key Resident Company, part of a reparative relationship between the two companies. To learn more about The Fled's history and evolving relationship to The Flea Theater, read about it in Playbill here or check out our website.