SaraSolo Productions Inc. Board of Directors:
(a DBA of Gotta Van Productions, Inc.)
SaraSolo Festival Jan Docking, President
USPS Box 3102, Sarasota FL 34230 Carole Kleinberg, Secretary,
Ken Kwiatkowski, Treasurer
Carol Wolf, Alan Brasington, Edward Scully,
Ann Morrison, Co-Founder, Artistic Director Harmon Greenblatt, Dr. Louis Rowitz
Blake Walton, Co-Founder, Associate Artistic Director David A. Coyle, Co-Founder, President Emeritus
Carole Goff, Operations Manager/Development Director Natalie Gundrum, Board of Directors Emeritus (1934-2017)
Advisory Group:
Rod Rawlings, Chair
Joan Lowery, Gary Kauffman, Jan Chester
Jan Wallace takes “Shirley and Me”
To New York City’s Planet Connections Theater FESTIVITY, June 17 – July 7, 2017
http://www.planetconnectionstheaterfestivity.com
SARASOTA, FL – SaraSolo Productions, Inc. announces that Sarasota Actress/Writer Jan Wallace is taking her sell out, SaraSolo Festival 2017 Premiere, one woman play, SHIRLEY AND ME to New York’s Planet Connections Theater FESTIVITY in June and July, 2017. Jan will be giving six performances on June 17 (5:15pm), June 19 (7:30pm), June 23 (5:30p), June25 (8:00pm), July 2 (3:45pm), and July 7 (7:00p). All performances are at the LATEA Theatre at 107 Suffolk Street #200, New York, NY 10002. For information, tickets, and reservations for Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, please go to www.planetconnectionstheaterfestivity.com .
ABOUT THE PLANET CONNECTIONS FESTIVITY INC.—It’s New York’s premiere eco-friendly/socially conscious not-for-profit arts festival. Fostering a diverse cross-section of performances, the festivity seeks to inspire artists and audiences both creatively and fundamentally, in a festive atmosphere forming a community of like-minded artists. At the heart of the festivity are individuals striving to create professional, meaningful theatre, film, music and art, while supporting organizations that give back to the community at large. The organization Jan Wallace has chosen to support is the National Brain Tumor Society. Jan’s husband Michael died from a Brain Tumor and she will therefore be dedicating her performances to him. The NBTS has created a web page for her and the link to donate is https://nbtsevents.braintumor.org/JanWallaceDonations Please Give Back, Donate to the NBTS.
ABOUT THE PLAY–SHIRLEY AND ME—It’s about Jan’s relationship over the years with the beloved theater and movie character “Shirley Valentine” (a not so young working class Liverpool lady who just takes off on holiday to Greece sans husband). Inspired from Jan Wallace’s years of performing the award winning 1986 Willy Russell play, SHIRLEY VALENTINE, to theater audiences in Connecticut and the New York area. SHIRLEY AND ME allows Wallace to relive her experience of performing SHIRLEY VALENTINE with humor and honesty, exploring how it affected her then and how the character of “Shirley” inspires her now. She once again brings to life the character “Shirley Valentine” as she includes some memorable excerpts from this remarkable play.
SHIRLEY AND ME had its World Premiere in February at the 2017 SaraSolo Festival in Sarasota, FL. A SaraSolo Festival Encore for the play is coming back to Sarasota for one Encore show only, on Friday June 9 at 8:00pm, at The Starlite Room, at 1001 Cocoanut Ave, Sarasota, FL 34236. Tickets are $15 at door. Call for a reservation at the SaraSolo Encores Box Office at 941-479-8084. For the June 9 performance in Sarasota, call the SaraSolo Encore Box Office at 941-479-8084. To make Dinner reservations for before the 8pm show, please call The Starlite Room Reservations at 941-702-5613.
For more info or to contact the SaraSolo Festival Artistic Directors, email at [email protected]. Visit the SaraSolo Festival website at www.SaraSolo.org. Follow us on Facebook @SaraSolo Festival, on Twitter @SaraSoloFest, on Instagram @SaraSoloFest.
ABOUT THE ARTIST/WRITER–JAN WALLACE
Jan Wallace was thrilled to return to the 2017 SaraSolo Festival with her World Premiere of SHIRLEY AND ME. She presented an excerpt from an autobiographical as part of the “Flying Solo” creative program at the 2016 SaraSolo Festival. This experience planted the seed for what developed into SHIRLEY AND ME.
In addition to her professional work in SHIRLEY VALENTINE, Jan Wallace has worked off-Broadway and in New York Regional theatres. Some of her favorite roles include Noises Off (Dotty Otley/Mrs. Clacket), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Jean Brodie), and The Shadow Box (Maggie). Since moving to Sarasota Florida, she has performed at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, the Banyan Theater, the Glenridge Performing Arts Center and the Players Theater. She trained in London and New York.
ABOUT THE SARASOLO FESTIVAL–The SaraSolo Festival is one of Sarasota’s most exciting new arts festivals. Beginning in 2015, its third season just completed January 27-February 5, 2017, the SaraSolo Festival provides a unique theatre experience, which celebrates the solo artist, showcasing an eclectic mix of 45-90 minute solo performances by national and international artists – featuring music, dance, cabaret, comedy, performance art, stand-up, and storytelling, as well as historical, biographical and poetic plays. The Annual SaraSolo Festival is held on two consecutive weekends in January and/or February. For the Schedule, Tickets and Festival information, visit us online at www.SaraSolo.org or contact us by email at [email protected] .
SaraSolo is the brainchild of SaraSolo Productions Inc. (formerly Gotta Van Productions, Inc.) a 501(C) (3) non-profit corporation. SaraSolo Productions believes in affordable theatre, in traditional and non-traditional spaces, that supports diversity, collaboration, and the transformative power of intimate theatre for both artists and audiences. SaraSolo Productions’ venues include festivals, fringe theatre, educational outreach, video, and online media. SaraSolo Festival Artistic Director Ann Morrison and Associate Artistic Director Blake Walton are award winners in the world’s largest solo performance festival, The United Solo Festival in NYC.
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