As part of the farewell celebration to The Red Room Theater, Blaze of Glory, resident artist and Horse Trade producer Kelley Nicole Girod(The Fire This Time Festival) presents dramatic readings of some of her most popular pieces birthed in The Red Room and an excerpt from a new work.
In Poetics of the Creative Process a student mistakes the shadow of a tree limb for her professor's arm reaching out to touch her...
In Parabolas a mathematician uses math to bring his dead wife back to life...
And in her brand new play Watching(working title) an aging widow of a spiritual healer sits in her wheelchair looking out on the lonely highway of Amite, Louisiana, waiting for her son's arrival...
And perhaps other Southern Gothic surprises! Don't miss it! Reservations HIGHLY recommended, kelleyngirod@gmail.com
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Kelley Nicole Girod
(Playwright)
Kelley Nicole Girod is a 2008 graduate of Columbia's MFA playwriting program where she was named the Stein and Liberace scholar as well as the John Golden fellow for her artistic merit. Kelley hails from Louisiana where she attended Louisiana State University and works extensively with the artistic community of Baton Rouge, most recently serving as a panel judge for Louisiana's artist in residency program. She has had plays produced in Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, and Columbus, Ohio and has had readings at Primary Stages, the Labyrinth Studio, and Horse Trade Theater where she founded and has served as Executive Producer of The Fire This Time Festival which is going into its fourth year of programming (www.firethistimefestival.com). She was awarded "Person of the Year 2011" by nytheatre.com for her work on The Fire This Time. Other producing credits include "Trayvon Martin: A Call to Action" (Horse Trade Theatre 2012) and "Honoring Excellence in Theatre: An Evening with Woodie King Jr."(NYC 2012). kelleyngirod@gmail.com
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Nicole Watson
(Director)
Nicole Watson is a director, playwright, and teacher. She was recently a guest director at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she directed a production of Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers. Other credits include Foreclosure and Just Exactly Like. She assisted on Signature Theatre’s production of The First Breeze of Summer directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. A member of the 2008 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Nicole has worked with the 52nd Street Project, the Women’s Project, the Tribeca Film Institute, Airmid Theatre, the Lincoln Institute for Arts and Education, the Working Theatre, and the McCarter First Stage Company, where she directed an adaptation of Hamlet. As a teaching artist she has directed The Fantastics, an adaptation of The Odyssey, and a traveling production of The Snow Queen for Urban Stage’s outreach program. She was a guest artist at Stratham Elementary School in New Hampshire where she designed a playwriting workshop based on the third grade English and history curriculum. She has a BA in history from Yale and an MA in interdisciplinary studies from NYU’s Gallatin School.
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