Zeph and Violet: A Race Romance

Sunday, October 27, 2024 @ 7:30PM

PLAYWRIGHTS' THEATRE OF EAST HAMPTON PRESENTS

Zeph and Violet: A Race Romance

During a blizzard, Zephaniah Rabinowitz has broken into Violet Robinson’s bedroom where he one time found shelter (and love) as a teenager during the Crown Heights Riots. Over fifteen years later, Zeph believes he can rekindle that connection. However, Violet must choose between her up and down engagement to a baseball player or a rekindled connection. Told in three parts, Zeph and Violet: A Race Romance is a play that explores racial and religious differences, a traumatic past, betrayal and the love that covers all of it.

ALEX HANNA, ZEPH

New York: Original Cast of Pulitzer Prize Winner, The Flick (Playwrights Horizons, Barrow Street); Your Hair Looked Great (Abrons Arts Center). Regional: Other Desert Cities and A Kid Like Jake (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Romeo and Juliet (Hartford Stage); Cabaret (Hangar Theatre); My Jane (Chester Theater). TV: Blindspot (NBC). Training: NYU; Juilliard.

Photo by by JJ Geiger

KRYSTLE N. ADAMS, VIOLET

Krystle N. Adams is an actress, writer, singer and director born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She performed in a zoom reading of her play Zeph and Violet: A Race Romance starring Jesse Eisenberg. Krystle played KT in the short film Interference which was selected in the Comic Con International Film Festival in San Diego. She has performed in numerous productions including Hairspray (Motormouth Maybelle/Dynamite), Gypsy (Tessa Tura), The Dining Room (3rd Actress), Or Current Resident (Jill Finch), Fame! (Mabel Washington) and West Side Story (Anita). Portions of her play, The Father Chronicles was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. You can find Krystle on her web series “Brooklyn Baby, Jersey Maybe” on YouTube along with her neo-noir short film “Pie: Apple of My Eye” which was officially selected by the Women’s International Film Festival and the Conch Shell International Film Festival. Krystle is a playwright at the Playwright/Directing Unit in the Actors Studio and is an active participant in Suzan Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work. She is a member of the Actors Equity Association. Krystle resides in New Jersey with her husband and two children.

Photo by Melinda DiMauro

LORI KEE

Lori Kee is an award-winning director & actor and experienced collaborator on new work.

Recent: A Dream Beyond This Pain by Jonathon Ward, Japanese Porno by John Patrick Shanley.

Upcoming: 5 One Acts by John Patrick Shanley at the Actors Studio (Nov). She directed the premiere of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright John Patrick Shanley’s play Candlelight.

Projects: The Listening Room/with I. Dumeng (Michela Jeffrey), The Chaplin Plays (Don Nigro), Luft Gangster (off Bway Assoc Dir w/Austin Pendleton), The Big Funk (John Patrick Shanley), Paper Dragon (Alisha Silver), over 60 one acts & other new work including: John Patrick Shanley (The Lost Years, Brooklyn Laundry, Tennessee, French Waitress, & Japanese Porno), Lyle Kessler, Craig muMs Grant, Kristina Poe, Florencia Lozano, James McLindon & Arlene Hutton …

Other projects: Carte Blanche (Xavier Galva), SWIPE (Maggie Diaz Bofill), A Light in the Dark (Wendy Mae Shelton) award -best direction, Blizzard (Melissa Skirboll) award best direction , The Fairy Tale Project (Webb Wilcoxen), & work w/ New Perspectives Theatre Co., New Circle Rep, The Seeing Place and Estrogenius.

Associate SDC, Actors Studio PDU. Resident Director/Member of Nylon Fusion for a over a decade. She is an Associate Professor of Theatre at CUNY BMCC.

@thelorikee

Photo by Peter DeGiglio

Reviews

“I absolutely love Krystle Adams’ work... Zeph and Violet is her most playful, probing piece. It’s a serious exploration of topical cultural themes while also being intimate and personal... Krystle is a brilliant woman and an incredibly diligent artist. Her skills as a writer are matched by her skills as an actress and it is that rare intersection that makes her play both personally dramatic and surprisingly and realistically humorous.”

– Jesse Eisenberg (Actor/Playwright: Asuncion, The Revisionist, The Double, The Social Network)

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