Will Davis, Dawn Akemi Saito, Rhonda Ross at JACK

Short works by stellar artists:

·      Will Davis: The Boy from the Circus | A love letter to William Inge

·      Dawn Akemi
Saito: Suns are Suns  |  A solo
theatre piece sharing first-person accounts of sex trafficking and
incorporating the ghostly art of Butoh dance

·      Rhonda Ross: Relativity  |  Anaila, a college senior, searches
for herself

$10.  Purchase online or at the door. More info: www.jackny.org

Dawn Akemi Saito is an actress, writer, and Butoh performer. Her multi-disciplinary work as well as her collaborations with major innovative artists have been seen across the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.

Rhonda Ross (pictured), daughter of the legendary songstress, Diana Ross and Motown founder Berry Gordy, is a writer, vocalist and an actress. Her most famous acting credit is on “Another World,” as Toni Burrell. She played the role from 1997 to 1999 and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. A graduate of Brown University, she is married to jazz musician Rodney Kendrick, and together their most recent albums are top sellers on CDbaby.com and other music sites.

Will Davis is a transgender theatre maker focused on new and devised work. Also a performer, Will has worked with The New Harmony Project, Salvage Vanguard Theatre and The Duplicates. Other recent work includes: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE which received both Outstanding Drama and Outstanding Direction awards by the Austin Critics Table Awards. Lisa D’Amour’s THE CATARACT, THE BOY FROM THE CIRCUS, a devised ghost play for William Inge, and COLOSSAL, a new play about football and feats of strength scored with a live drum line, and also nominated for Outstanding Drama by the Austin Critics Table Awards.