CELL by Cassandra Medley (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays
English - July 10, 2022 10:45 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 143 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts TV & Film act broadway drama entertainment pulitzer radio stage story storytelling acting Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tony winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, “Fear the Walking Dead,” PoA’s Poof!), Tony nominee Condola Rashad (Saint Joan, “Billions”), and Melanie Nicholls-King ("The Wire," "Little Fires Everywhere”) star in Cassandra Medley’s CELL. When a jaded supervisor at an immigrant detention center finds jobs there for her sister and niece, family tensions erupt into a battle over home and homeland security.
Directed by Diverse City Theater Company founder Victor Lirio, CELL by Cassandra Medley (Relativity, Coming Up for Air) “deftly explores the dirty antidemocratic secret of institutionalized racism” (New York Times). After the play, host Claudia Catania joins Pulitzer Prize-winning immigration journalist Julia Preston, Broadway producer Cheryl Wiesenfeld, and playwright Medley to move beyond headlines and explore the real lives that inspired CELL.