September 14
A talkback and Q& A with Director Chuck Schultz & Sharon Washington will follow the film.
Writers/Directors: Judah-Lev Dickstein, Chuck Schultz
Cast: Colman Domingo, Oskar Eustis, Tracy Brigden, and Sharon Washington
Veteran actor and TONY-nominated playwright Sharon Washington commits to writing a play about her fairytale childhood living inside the St. Agnes Branch of the New York Public Library, but there’s an unforeseen cost – waking the family dragon she thought she’d silenced decades ago.
1hr 20mins/NR
Tickets $18 / Superstar Members $16
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Sharon Washington received a 2023 TONY Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical as co-writer of New York, New York. She debuted as a playwright with her solo play Feeding The Dragon, which played Off-Broadway at Primary Stages and was nominated for Outer Critics, Lortel, and Audelco Awards. She was the 2017-18 Primary Stages Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence. The play was recorded as an Audible Original and selected as an Audible Essentials Top 100 pick. Sharon's acting credits include Queen Margaret in the 2022 Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III, and broadcast on PBS Great Performances. On Broadway, Sharon appeared in The Scottsboro Boys musical. Off-Broadway credits include Dot (Vineyard Theater), Wild with Happy (Public Theater/NYSF - Lucille Lortel nomination and Audelco Award, among many others, and numerous regional theaters nationwide. Her recent film and television appearances include Sing, Sing, Joker: Folie á Deux (Fall 2024), Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Bull, the short film Birdwatching, co-starring Amanda Seyfried; and the Academy-Award-winning Joker. Sharon holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BA from Dartmouth College.
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Director Chuck Schultz's When My Sleeping Dragon Woke won Best Feature Documentary Premiere at the Heartland International Film Festival (2022) and was an International Documentary Association's DocuClub series selection (2020). His film The Last Crop (2016) explores an aging couple's struggle to ensure their farm's future in California's Central Valley. Chuck was co-director/producer of 5 Days in July (2007), a dual-screen projection installation that revisits the 1967 Newark Riots/Rebellion. Exhibitions include: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; Debra Willis' 1968: Then & Now, New York University Tisch School of the Arts (2008); and the Urban Research Directors Lounge exhibition in Berlin (2010). Director's Choice Black Maria Film Festival (2008) and Jury Award Best Short Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (2009). The Rural Studio (2001), ITVS LiNKS co-production, chronicles architect Samuel Mockbee and his students' work in Alabama's Black Belt, aired on PBS. Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art 2002 Biennial and Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (2006). His film A Day At A Time which he co-directed with William Garcia's won Best Documentary at the Heartland International Film Festival (1993).