Darren Lee Cole presents the Off-Broadway premiere of NAACP
Award-winning playwright and actor Debra Ehrhardt's Jamaica, Farewell, based on her true-life
story, which opens Monday, March 3rd at 7PM at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Van Dam Street). Directed by Wallace Norman, previews begin
February 22nd. Tickets are $20 during previews and $25-$40 for all other
performances. For tickets, group sales
and special packages, please call (212) 691-1555 or visit www.sohoplayhouse.com.
A 2007 NYC Fringe Festival award-winner, Jamaica, Farewell returns to the SoHo Playhouse
to receive its full Off-Broadway commercial production. The show has been performed in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara,
Atlanta, Ft.
Lauderdale, Tampa
and Toronto
(January 2008)
"Jamaica,
Farewell tells the story of Debra Ehrhardt's journey in which she escapes
revolution-torn Jamaica
in the 1970's. Left to her own devices,
she risked prison time, and even death in an attempt to pull off a daring and
dangerous caper with the unwitting help of an infatuated American CIA agent to
fulfill her lifelong dream of starting over in America," explain press notes.
Debra Ehrhardt (Writer/Performer). A native of Kingston Jamaica,
Debra Ehrhardt fled to the US
during the politically unstable seventies.
This is her third one-woman show.
Previous productions include Mango, Mango which received two NAACP
Awards and Invisible Chairs, which was produced by David Strasberg at the
Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood and
later optioned as a situation comedy by Fox. She received a 2007 Proclamation
from the City of New York for Jamaica, Farewell for her "Outstanding
Contribution to the Jamaican Community." A member of the Writer's Guild of
America, Ms. Ehrhardt is currently adapting Jamaica, Farewell for the big screen.
Wallace Norman (Director) is the founder and Producing
Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe, an award-winning theatre company in its
sixth season. Prior to his work with Woodstock Fringe, Norman has co-produced and directed more than
35 works for the stage including many world premieres. Recent directing
credits: Women on Fire by Irene
O'Garden (Woodstock Fringe), The Great
Nebula In Orion a chamber musical by Lanford Wilson with music by Kenneth
Fuchs (Judson Poets Theatre), Greetings
From Yorkville (78th Street Theatre Lab, York Theatre), Voices From the Fringe, and
TheaterSounds, a Kingston-based play reading series.
The playing schedule for Jamaica, Farewell is as follows: Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 3PM and 8PM and
Sundays at 3PM and 7PM. There will be a
performance on Thursday, February 28th at 8PM.
Tickets are $20 for previews and $25- $40 for all other performances.
For tickets, group sales and special packages, please call (212) 691-1555 or
visit www.sohoplayhouse.com
Debra Ehrhardt
(photo by Monique Lai)
