Kitty Felde's A Patch of Earth Free Staged Reading & Playwright Talkback

Attend a free staged reading and playwright talkback for the Kitty Felde play "A Patch of Earth" Friday, February 11 , 7:00pm - 10:00pm at First United Methodist Church of Orlando (149 E Jackson St., Orlando, FL 32801. Corner of Orange Avenue and South Street). Directed by John DiDonna. This is one of the events in the 7th Annual Orlando Latin American Film & Heritage Festival.

ABOUT THE PLAY
Bosnian war crimes for the background of this work which begins on the eve of the sentencing for confessed war criminal Drazen Erdemovic - A reluctant soldier, who has been ordered to kill busloads of unarmed Bosnian Muslim men and boys. Or be killed himself. This man or monster is compelled to tell his story to exorcise the ghosts that haunt him. The Detroit Monitor called it "an intense human drama of one person caught in a whirlwind of violence and hatred." Cast: Roger Floyd, Emily Killian, Jennifer Bonner, Dennis Neal, Sarah Lee Dobbs, Cory Boughton, Patrick Ward.

ABOUT KITTY FELDE
Kitty Feld has written nearly a dozen plays, everything from a melodrama set in San Francisco's Barbary Coast (Shanghai Heart) to a musical comedy about the Dodgers' move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles (Bum’s Rush), to a one-act about a radio cowboy whose show is moving to television, (Man With No Shadow.) Kitty Felde's plays have been performed all over the world, from Pretoria to Sussex, to Naples, Florida. She recently won the 2009 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Adaptation of a trio of Nikolai Gogol short stories for the stage called Gogol Project.

Felde has also won the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition for her Bosnian war crimes play A Patch of Earth, which premiered at the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo. Her newest play, Top of The Hour, tells the story of a very bad day on the job: covering one of the nation's worst commuter train accidents.

Felde is co-founder and former managing director of Theatre of NOTE in Hollywood. She currently serves as a judge for Washington DC's Helen Hayes Awards. Felde currently resides in Washington, DC where she covers Capitol Hill for Southern California Public Radio. For more information on the author please visit www.kittyfelde.com