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MIND THE GAP

A one act play by Tom Grady

Starring Annmarie Benedict

Directed by Keith Oncale

Production design by Greg Tippit

MIND THE GAP captures a moment in time, specifically this moment: the twilight before Ground Zero becomes filled in, built up, and lost to what it is now. Six women confront the aftermath of 9-11 as they make a pilgrimage to the site of the World Trade Center. As the play ends, each character reaches an epiphany as a string of connections are made between them, as they observe each other reacting to what is the most poignant location in their America.

Tom Grady > Bio

Tom' first play, American Cocktail, won 1st prize in the Clauder Playwriting Competition and was produced by Actors Stock Company in Dallas (1993) and Trinity Repertory Company, RI (1994). The Dramatist Guild of New York produced Global Village in New York for its New Playwrights Initiative. The play was selected from Playwrights Horizons' Script Library. Actors Stock Company's production won the Dallas Theatre Critics Forum Award for Outstanding New Play as well as a Top Ten Production by the Dallas Morning News. His one-act, Opposing Roses, won the CODAC Award for Playwriting Excellence. I Love You Virus, which premiered as a reading in New Bedford at Culture*Park's Short Plays Marathon (9/03) won Boston's New Acts Playwriting Slam and was selected for Ashland Oregon's 2004 New Play Festivval, Actors Theatre 2004 Quickies Festival in Santa Rosa, CA, and the Boston Theatre Marathon. His one-woman play, Mind the Gap, was showcased at the Brooklyn Working Artists' Coalition last November, and will be produced later this month for Cuchipinoy Productions in New York, as well as the Midtown International Festival in July. He has received commissions from Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre and Turnip theatre. He recently served as story consultant to David Henry Hwang for his Tony-nominated book for Flower Drum Song. He has directed theatre on the Cape, Boston and Providence, and has been in residence at Byrdcliffe, Palenville and Yaddo artist colonies. He has also written three screenplays. Tom holds a BA in film from Syracuse University's Newhouse School, and an MA in English from the University of San Diego. He is a Professor of English at Bristol Community College, and lives in Fairhaven, MA.