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)
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!
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.
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.

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.

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:
