EST/Sloan Project presents a workshop Reading of
Lemuria
a new play by Bonnie Antosh, directed by Margot Bordelon
featuring Scout Backus, Shavanna Calder, Margaret Daly, Luke Islam, Marianne Rendon, & Caro Zeller
Professor Anabelle Katz-Carver, the greatest primatologist since Jane Goodall, runs her elite research lab as a strict matriarchy. After grooming potential successors for decades, she's finally ready to choose an heir — but in the animal kingdom and in our own, how does a queen pass the crown on to another queen? LEMURIA is an inheritance drama about dominance, queer Southern scientists, academic lineage, sex, and — yes — lemurs.
This reading is free to attend, but a reservation is required.
Audience Health Policy: Please note, we do require all audience members to wear masks while in the theatre.
Please contact boxoffice@estnyc.org if you have any issues, questions, or concerns.
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.
Bonnie Antosh is a playwright and performer from both Carolinas & New York. Her plays include Cluck Deluxe (winner, 2019 Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival), Persephone at the River (finalist, 2019 Red Bull Short New Play Festival), Rare (Yale Playwrights Festival), The Wilderness Needs Your Whole Attention (Rule of 7x7), and I Told You it Would End Like This (co-written with Avery Deutsch). She studied theater at Yale, where she received both the Louis Sudler Prize and the Shana Alexander Research Fellowship in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her work as an actress includes seasons with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare on the Sound, and Nebraska Shakespeare. Bonnie is a '20-'21 EST/Sloan commission recipient and the literary manager of Playing on Air, a podcast and public radio show devoted to contemporary short plays. She currently writes and lives in Asheville, NC.