Hi, I'm Polly Frost

SUNDAY OCTOBER 22nd at 6 PM


ACTORS READ FROM DEEP INSIDE


CORNELIA STREET CAFE


29 Cornelia Street (between Bleecker and W. 4th Streets)
for reservations: (212) 989-9319
a full menu is available during the reading
$6 (includes a free house drink)







READ ABOUT THE ACTORS



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SHANNON LOWER

Just returned from Berlin where she was shooting a horror movie. A professional Congolese dancer as well as an actor. Welcome home, Shannon! We've missed you!

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KAREN GRENKE

Was last seen in Convergence at AIsling Arts, and in Angels and Accordions. She's a founding memember of the theater company CAGEY PRODUCTIONS.



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STEPHANIE SELLARS

Is a sex columnist for New York Press, a singer, and actor. She most recently performed as Dorothy Parker. She wrote, produced and acted in the short film TWENTY MINUTES OF IMMORTALITY.

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photograph by Wade Tanev

ABIOLA ABRAMS

Is a film director, playwright and activist. Her hip hop poetry play, GODDESS CITY, blends ritual, story telling, songs & theatrics. Watch ABIOLA ABRAMS weekly as the host (also consulting producer) of BET's THE BEST SHORTS on BET-J. A filmmaker who also gives motivational talks, she is the creator of The Until the Violence Stops: NYC Women's Film Festival in association with V-Day. Former Producing Host of HBO's interstitial politically incorrect talk show CHAT ZONE and syndicated NBC hip hop news show THE SOURCE: ALL ACCESS, Abiola Abrams artistic films ranging from edgy 'chick flicks' to hard hitting docs investigate the themes of gender, race and empowerment. Abiola Abrams was one of 4 filmmakers selected from 3600 to direct a short film with an international cast & crew in Germany. The result was STRANDED airing on BET. websites: thegoddessfactory.com, evesmagic.tv.


PRUDENCE HEYERT


Is very excited to be working with Polly again. She was recently seen in M. Night Shyamalan's American Express commercial that premiered Oscar Night. Prudence also just worked with Tate Donovan and Glenn Fitzgerald in Noah Buschel's upcoming feature, "Neal Cassady." She was seen in "Sitting on the Edge of the World" as part of Manhattan Theatre Source's Playwrighting Development series this summer, and is Co-curator of Eve Ensler's VDAY: Women's Film Festival: Until the Violence Stops.



READ ABOUT CORNELIA STREET CAFE



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THE DOWNSTAIRS PERFORMANCE SPACE



"Over the years it has presented an enormous variety of artists, from singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to poet-senator Eugene McCarthy, from members of Monty Python to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It has offered a performance home to the Songwriters Exchange, the Writers Room, the Writers Studio, the Greek-American Writers Association, the Italian-American Writers Association, the New Works Project/Theatre, and many others."


HOW TO GET THERE:


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