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The National Arts Club (NAC) presents an online reading of one-act plays by Scott C. Sickles, best known for his award-winning work as a writer on the daytime dramas General Hospital and One Life to Live, and performed by renowned soap opera stars. Sickles’ two plays, The Greater and Lesser Edmunds of the World and Persephone, are read by Melissa Claire Egan (The Young and the Restless, All My Children), Christian Jules Le Blanc (The Young and the Restless), Beth Maitland (The Young and the Restless), Karla Mosley (Guiding Light, The Bold and the Beautiful), Tonya Pinkins (All My Children), and Darnell Williams (All My Children); directed by Fritz Brekeller. The performance takes place on Thursday, July 16 at 3:00 PM (EST) via Zoom. The performance is free to attend with registration at nationalartsclub.eventbrite. com.
As a television writer, Sickles has received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for the daytime drama General Hospital, as well as seven Emmy Award nominations for that series and One Life to Live. His plays have been performed across the United States as well as internationally, and his work recognized with numerous awards including the New York Innovative Theater Award and the Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award.
Director Brekeller has worked extensively in the soap opera world on both coasts, winning multiple Daytime Emmy Awards, most recently in May 2019 as part of the directing team at CBS’s The Young and the Restless. He received a 2016 New York Innovative Theater award for Outstanding Direction of Sickles’ Composure at the Workshop Theater.
The Plays
The Greater and Lesser Edmunds
Gideon is meeting his half-brother Augie. They have met only once before, at their father's funeral...a father who kept two families at the same time. Gideon thinks he knows what Augie wants. Gideon is wrong.
Gideon is meeting his half-brother Augie. They have met only once before, at their father's funeral...a father who kept two families at the same time. Gideon thinks he knows what Augie wants. Gideon is wrong.
Persephone
Helena gave up her daughter Persephone at birth. Today, they meet for the first time. It is going really well. Or at least it was…
Helena gave up her daughter Persephone at birth. Today, they meet for the first time. It is going really well. Or at least it was…
The Cast
Melissa Claire Egan (Miss Reubens) currently plays the role of Chelsea Lawson on The Young and the Restless. Her additional credits include the role of Annie McDermott on ABC's All My Children from 2006 to 2011, Audrey in the 2019 Hallmark movie Holiday for Heroes and appearances on Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill. Criminal Minds and Men at Work. She has been recognized with five Daytime Emmy award nominations.
Beth Maitland (Helena) joined the cast of The Young and the Restless as Traci Abbott in 1982, receiving a Daytime Emmy Award in 1985 and a nomination in 2019. Additional television credits include Love American Style and the television adaptation of Plaza Suite. Maitland's films include Number Two and Mr. Holland’s Opus, and her stage credits include over eighty productions from Shakespeare to comedies to musicals.
Christian Jules Le Blanc (Gideon) joined the cast of The Young and the Restless in 1981, receiving three Daytime Emmy Awards and twelve nominations. His television credits include As the World Turns, In the Heat of the Night, Perry Mason, Cheers and Gabriel’s Fire. Le Blanc’s numerous theatre credits include Ladies in Retirement with Julie Harris and Eileen Brennan, The Catonsville Nine, No Orchids for Miss Blandish and Appearances to the Contrary.
Karla Mosley (Persephone) portrayed transgender model Maya Avant Forrester on CBS’s The Bold and The Beautiful. Additional television roles include Elodie Baxter on the CW’s Hart of Dixie and Christina Moore Boudreau on CBS’s Guiding Light. She recurred on CBS’s Angel From Hell, appeared in the 2008 Cohen Brothers comedy, Burn After Reading, and traveled to Australia to record the three time Emmy nominated TLC children’s series Hi-5.
Tonya Pinkins (Ms. Marchbanks-Stein) is a Tony Award-winning actor of stage, television and film. Her background includes twenty years in daytime television, as well as nine Broadway shows including the original Merrily We Roll Along, Caroline, or Change (Tony nomination) and Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony, Best Supporting Actress). Some of her television roles include Ethel Peabody on Gotham, Martha on Fear the Walking Dead and as the Secretary of State on Madam Secretary.
Darnell Williams (Augie) received two Daytime Emmy Awards for his role of Jesse Hubbard on All My Children, which he played from 1981-1988 and 2009-2011. Additional television credits include Loving, Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless and a recurring role on Felicity. Williams's film appearances include Sidewalk Stories, Short Cuts, and Simone. He appeared in the play Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell in New York City and co-directed the independent film Manhattanites.
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