World Premiere Of LIBERTY TALKS: A COLOSSAL SATIRE Comes to Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater will present the World Premiere of LIBERTY TALKS: A Colossal Satire by Provincetown playwright Fermin Rojas, directed by Janice L. Goldberg. Performances run Thursdays through Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m., September 14 – October 6, 2024. Preview performances at 7:00 p.m. on September 12 and 13 are discounted and open to the public. 

After a monumental lifetime lighting the way to America's shore, Lady Liberty (yes, THAT Lady Liberty) finds her voice, steps off her pedestal and ventures out to tell her story. When she accidentally walks into a theater full of people, she decides to spend a few moments ruminating about her experiences, memories and hopes for our nation's future.  A thoughtful comedy exploring the origins of one of our nation's most enduring symbols.

Rojas recalls first encountering the Statue of Liberty on a postcard sent from a granduncle in Ohio in the ‘60s. This was before emmigrating from Cuba to the United States with his family at age 6, with only one suitcase and fifty-dollars for their family of five. In conversation with artistic director Christopher Ostrom, Rojas remembered thinking Lady Liberty was “beautiful and embodied the promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, in a country where all are considered equals.”

Brandon Curry (Libby) Brandon is thrilled to be making his WHAT debut as LIBBY in Liberty Talks. Brandon has been recently seen in Harlan Cobens “Shelter” on Prime Video playing the enigmatic Agent. Additionally SHOUT Productions full length feature: The Kill Room , starring Uma Thurman and Samuel L Jackson playing earnest art critic Alan. Other notable credits include. TV: Law & Order SVU, WeCrashed, Happiest People in NY. Theater: The Legend of Georgia McBride, Teen Dad, The Inheritance or I & II, Disneys The Little Mermaid, Ghost the Musical 1st Natl Tour. Follow on social media: @iambrandoncurry

Sam Perwin (Frédéric Bartholdi) Sam is thrilled to be returning to WHAT for his third production and second world premiere! He was previously seen in Marry Me a Little and The Empaths. Other recent credits include Head Over Heels (Basilius) at Theatre SilCo and Assassins (Booth) at Playhouse Stage Company. www.samperwin.com and @samperwin on Instagram 

Richarda Abrams (Statue of Sojourner Truth and others) 4X AUDELCO award-winning performer/playwright: Big Mama and Me, Bethune: Our Black Velvet Rose, and First By Faith: The Life Of Mary McLeod Bethune. Other Performances include: Crossroads Theatre Co., Ivoryton Playhouse, Public Theater, Cherry Lane, 2ndStage, La Mama (director Estelle Parsons) and New Federal Theatre (director Woodie King, Jr.) Film/TV: I Am Here, The Subject,The Riverside Bench, Oreos With Attitude (Showtime) CBS, ABC, LIFETIME, Sesame Street. Singing: with her father Dr. Muhal Richard Abrams' CD (Song For All), and Amina Claudine Myers' Generation IV. She holds a B.F.A. with honors in Acting (New York University's Tisch School of the Arts) and M.A. in Educational Theatre (NYU's Steinhardt).

www.RichardaAbrams.com

Miriam Kulick (Statue of Blind Justice and others) TV/Film highlights: Night School with Kevin Hart, Superstition on SyFy directed by Mario Van Peebles, HBO Ballers with Dwayne Johnson. Miriam produced, wrote, and starred in The Rock a short indie film. Theatre highlights: playwright and actor Open Hearts, solo showdirected by Obie-award winner Gretchen Cryer, Off-Broadway Theatre Row, Cherry Lane, (excerpt only) DC Capital, and Ft. Lauderdale Fringe Festivals. Three Angels Dancing on a Needle, (Best Actress New Times Miami,) Brick Theater (NYC). Hunka (readings) at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Primary Stages, (NYC). Zoom trilogy acted and wrote Sunday Conversations a Family Gathering. Miriam is working on a new play; On Becoming – A Retreat – a dramedy with a smidgen of magical realism. Member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, LPTW (NYC board member & CT chapters) Dramatists Guild and an Initiating Artist of The Jewish Theatre Circle, NYC. www.miriamkulick.com.

Pedro González (Teacher / Docent, and others) is a Puerto Rican actor and writer based in New York City. He is so excited to be back at WHAT for the second time for Liberty Talks. Recent Work: Angel (Jesus Hopped the A Train), Actor 5 (El Tratamiento), Rat (Can't Ignore the Rat) Many thanks to his parents, Dylan, Cason, Victoria, and Orlando.  

Eileen Sugameli (Georgie / Emma Lazarus and others) is thrilled to make her Wellfleet Theater debut!  She was in the ensemble of TFANA's Obie Award-winning production of The Skin of Our Teeth with Tony Award-winner Kecia Lewis, performed in Vertigo Theater's Bareknuckle with Tony Award-winner Kara Young, and was an understudy for Studio Theatre's Helen Hayes Award-winning production of The Wolves. Her film credits include one of four roles in The West Virginian Starfish, which was named Best Short at two International Film Festivals.  Eileen also played a lead role in Voorhees, a Friday the 13th fan-made feature with over 5 million views on YouTube, and a featured role in We Only Know So Much with Jeanne Tripplehorne, Donal Logue, Robert John Burke and Noah Schnapp. She is also a magician and Tik Toker with over 10 million views and a million likes.  NYU/Tisch- BFA in Drama with honors.  www.eileensugameli.com

Janice L. Goldberg (Director) directs a lot of new plays and sometimes she wins awards, like The Kennedy Center Gold Medallion Award for her work with original scripts. Based in New York, Janice has directed over 80 original works that have been seen uptown and down, across the country, from university to Off-Broadway. Recent Off-Broadway: Emma Goldman Sherman's FUKT, “staged by Janice L. Goldberg who deserves more attention” …nytheatre-wire; I Of The Storm, “a spectacular show”…Broadway World and Remembrance Day; “executed with glorious finesse”... NYTheatre Guide; Rose Colored Glass (co-written with Susan Bigelow) is published by Samuel French, Inc. and has had productions all over the US and Europe. Here on the Cape, she directed That Dorothy Parker at the Provincetown Playhouse last summer. Janice served as Producing Artistic Co-Director of AND Theatre Company in NYC, overseeing the development of over 100 new plays. And AND's signature series “Without A Net”.  1 play, 25 performances, 25 different casts.  Member: SDC, Dramatist's Guild, New Circle Theatre Company, Honor Roll. Faculty member of the Dramatists Guild Institute. www.JaniceLGoldberg.com

Fermin Rojas (Playwright) is a grateful to WHAT for the world premiere of LIBERTY TALKS. He also thanks Joe Papryzicki at The Truro Playwright Collective, of which he is a member, and where the play had its first reading. It was further developed at Desert Playwrights Retreat. He is also grateful to Helltown Players, where his short play Karen was produced as part of Little Devils. Other plays include, Cold War (Truro Playwright Collective), Rubbing Beads, Ashes (Provincetown 24 Hour Plays), The Man, My Covid Year (Sailor Beware); books for musicals Miss Twinkleton's School for Sensitive Boys, A Twinkle in Time, and Destination Holiday (Colony Theater). Film work (as producer or director) Award winning documentaries There Are Things To Do, Alumbrones, The Black Mambas, King Philip's Belt. Narrative films include The Ali'i King and High Tide. Along with husband Jay Kubesch, he operates DKR Films. Fermin is also currently collaborating with Jeremy Cohen, Mfoniso Udofia, and Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) on a musical adaptation of the the award-wining documentary Gospel of Eureka. Born in Havana, Cuba Jay and Fermin are year-round residents of Provincetown with their three dogs Truman, Porter, Shadow, and Valentino the cat. 

Christopher Ostrom Scenic and Projection Designer

Carol Sherry Costume Designer

Eric Nightengale Lighting and Sound Designer

Gregory Fletcher * Production Stage Manager

Eli Gutierrez * Assistant Stage Manager

* appearing through an agreement between this theater and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The designers of this production are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

The director is a member of the Stage Director and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

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