A Regional Premiere
In a time-bending exploration of freedom and womanhood, a daughter exploring her mother’s legacy, investigates the unfinished fight for women’s rights. Fresh from its acclaimed Broadway run, this irreverent and intensely relevant tour-de-force by Bess Wohl won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Play.
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Contains nudity. All attendees must be 18 or older, or attending with a parent. This production is phone-free. All phones must be powered off and secured in Yondr pouches upon arrival. Guests will keep possession of their phones and may unlock them during intermission if needed. Guests using a device during the performance will be asked to leave without a refund.
LIBERATION is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service. www.concordtheatricals.com.
Zelda Kloner’s Gift Fund/Heidi Berghuis
Funding Arts Network
Ana Hochkammer, Gene Sulzberger, Jill & Hal Gaffin
BILL
JOANNE
Anne (MARGIE) has appeared in many productions at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, including Cabaret, Noises Off, Henry V, The Three Musketeers, Richard II, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Sense and Sensibility, Romeo and Juliet, Cymbeline, God of Carnage, The Glass Menagerie, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, and Into the Woods. Directing credits include Exit Laughing and The Roommate (Studio Theatre at Tierra Del Sol), Steel Magnolias (Flat Rock Playhouse), Every Brilliant Thing (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), and Christmas at Pemberley, The Great Gatsby, and The Turn of the Screw (Orlando Shakespeare Theater). Anne is a member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA. www.annehering.com
Photo by Scott Dentinger
SUSAN
DORA
Sheena O. Murray (CELESTE), recently named Best Actor in a Female Role by Miami News Times, is what one would call a multi-hyphenate. She is a professional actress, vocalist, published author, and playwright. While wearing many hats in the creative world, she has found a home in theater. Seen recently as Chelle in AHCAC’s Detroit ‘67, Charlene in M Ensemble’s Searcing for Willie Lynch, Sheena O. Murray is a gifted storyteller. She is grateful and excited to be making her GableStage debut. You can find her online at LoveSheenaO.com or @sheenaonstage.
Elizabeth (LIZZIE) is an actor, director, writer, and producer based in South Florida. She has her MFA in Acting from Florida Atlantic University and has received Silver Palm Awards, a Big Easy Award, and Carbonell Award nominations for her acting and directing. Recent credits: Marcelle in Prayer for the French Republic (GableStage), Heidi Schreck in What the Constitution Means to Me (City Theatre), Harriet in POTUS (Zoetic), Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (New City Players), Annie Wilkes in Misery (Empire Stage), Sophie in Step by Step (Actors’ Playhouse), Two in What’s Best for the Children (Theatre Lab). Elizabeth is soon to release a mini web series she wrote, produced, and starred in called Mackerel: The Midlife Alien.
Photo by Eric Campbell
Bari Newport (Director & Producing Artistic Director) joined GableStage as Producing Artistic Director in June 2021, succeeding the legendary Joseph Adler, “the godfather of South Florida theatre,” who led the company from 1988 to 2020. Bari is known for her creative methods of centering a theatre company in a community. Whether it’s giving out hundreds of potted plants on Earth Day or designating Thursdays as Give a Dog a Bone Days, Bari’s belief that a theatre company is a citizen in a community rather than simply a place where plays are produced has been the bellwether of her career. Before coming to Miami, Bari served nine and a half seasons as Producing Artistic Director of Penobscot Theatre Company in Bangor, Maine. Previously, she was Artistic Associate at the Tony Award–winning Alliance Theatre, Artistic/Literary Manager at Pasadena Playhouse, Associate Producer at Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre, and Associate Director at Florida Repertory Theatre. Her work as a director and actor has been seen at Horizon Theatre Company, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, American Stage, Cumberland County Playhouse, Florida Repertory Theatre, Sacramento Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. At GableStage, she has directed The Price, The Year of Magical Thinking, Heisenberg, We Will Not Be Silent, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Thanksgiving Play, The Lehman Trilogy, Appropriate, and Summer, 1976. Bari earned her BFA from the University of Southern California and her MFA from the University of Iowa. She is a 25-year member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Actors’ Equity Association. Email her at bnewport@gablestage.org
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