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On streets stacked with injustice, where does education fit? A New York neighborhood struggles with racism, poverty and war through the 60’s. Andy, illiterate, after a jail term, learns basic reading with the help of his friend Tito and library clerk, Brenda. But with Brenda, Tito and the whole neighborhood facing upheaval and demonstrations, can Andy get past his early classroom trauma to develop further?

PLAYWRIGHT
CARLOS JEROME

Carlos Jerome is Literary Director and member playwright for Around The Block. His plays have been produced by various theaters and have won several awards around the country. His The Pain Inside and Counting Pedestals were published in, respectively, The Best Ten-Minute Plays, 2017 and The Best 10-Minute Plays, 2021 (Smith & Kraus). Cada Loco has been published in the 2021-2022 Journal of the Pirandello Society of America. He has written the screenplay, The Independents of Loisaida. A Lower East Side boy, Carlos studied acting with Anne Allen, playwriting with Mark O'Donnell, Stewart Spencer and Allen Davis III. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Playwrights, Harlem Playwrights 21, Times Square Playwrights, SLC Playwrights. He has taught playwriting for Around The Block, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre and for Latin American Theatre Ensemble at the Museo del Barrio.

DIRECTOR
IVETTE DUMENG

Ivette Dumeng was born and raised in New York City. She is an award-winning director and Producing Artistic Director of Nylon Fusion Theatre Company. Among her recent directing credits are Semicontinunous by Carlos Jerome, The Listening Room by Michaela Jeffrey, Italian American Reconciliation and several new plays by John Patrick Shanley, including I’m Going to Touch Your Neck. She has also directed Don Nigro’s award-winning Marina and Mata Hari plays, as well as Occasionally Nothing by Natalie Menna. Ivette is a member of The Actors Studio Playwrights Directors Unit, the League of Professional Theatre Women, SAG-AFTRA, and Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU).