Podcasts Arts Performing Arts Playing On Air: Short Audio Plays CELL by Cassandra Medley (Re-Release)

CELL by Cassandra Medley (Re-Release)

Published: Aug. 16, 2020, 8:30 a.m.

Tony winner Tonya Pinkins (Jelly\u2019s Last Jam, \u201cFear the Walking Dead,\u201d PoA\u2019s Poof!), Tony nominee Condola Rashad (Saint Joan, \u201cBillions\u201d), and Melanie Nicholls-King ("The Wire," "Little Fires Everywhere\u201d) star in Cassandra Medley\u2019s 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) \u201cdeftly explores the dirty antidemocratic secret of institutionalized racism\u201d (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.

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