"When can I see it?!"
Saturday, July 24th at 7:00pm

Leigh Jackson, Associate Producer

KARA LEE CORTHRON'S plays include Julius By Design (world premiere - Penumbra Theatre, 2011), Holly Down In Heaven (Princess Grace Award), Spookwater (O’Neill Conference Finalist), Wild Black-Eyed Susans (Helen Merrill Award), and Etched In Skin On A Sunlit Night, which will premiere at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia in 2011. Awards include: Lecomte du Nouy Prize (three-time recipient), the Theodore Ward Prize, residencies at MacDowell, Skriðuklaustur (Iceland), and the Millay Colony. Commissions: South Coast Rep, InterAct, New Georges, and Naked Angels. Development: New Georges, P73, Vineyard, and many others. Juilliard alumna.

ETCHED IN SKIN ON A SUNLIT NIGHT
Reykjavik. Fall. 2008. Jules, an African-American ex-pat, becomes entranced with Barack Obama while her husband Ólafur, a white Icelandic investment banker, brings reality home—the worst economic crash in his nation’s history. In the midst of their growing worry, a cryptic stranger pays Jules a visit, forcing her to confront her past and Ólafur gives his young biracial daughter a gift: the Icelandic classic Tíu Litlir Negrastrákarnir. Or Ten Little Niggerboys. ETCHED... asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love . . . and does it matter?