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OBIE and AUDELCO Awards Winner, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Finalist, Broadway Actress member of LAByrinth Theater Company and The Actors Center

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8 Nominations! Including Outstanding Play @stephenadlyguirgis
Best Director @johnortiz718
Fight Choreography @unkle_daves_fighthouse
And 5 acting nods! Including a most deserving @kpoeness who broke our hearts and built em back up again, every single night! So proud to be among these great artists on stage and this pool of nominees! Thank you @labyrinththeater and @atlantictheater
Thank you all so much for the messages and love! I am so proud of my Halfway Bitches family! WE did this! Thank you everyone who came out to see it, from NY, Chicago, LA, Atlanta and all over! We were so happy to share this with you!

@dramadeskawards #halfwaybitcheslab
#halfwaybitchesatc
#dreamsarentdumb
#RealLABLove
#RevolutionofHumanDignity
#NeverKnewLoveLikeThisBefore
📸: @monique.carboni

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Miss all these people and this play. Congrats @stephenadlyguirgis and @lizacolonzayas_lcz and @karaakter for the nominations. This experience changed my life and I am forever grateful to these folks, @johnortiz718 the @atlantictheater and the @labyrinththeater for crafting something in love and hope. We need that shit now more than ever!
#dreamsarentdumb
#RealLABLove
#essentialbitches

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Congrats to @stephenadlyguirgis ❤️
And our brilliant Sarge in Charge @lizacolonzayas_lcz for their noms!
And a special thank you to @labyrinththeater and @atlantictheater
and @johnortiz718 Wishing we could all circle up, cast and crew, and Willow our goat. You are in my hearts. Love and Light and Wash your Hands, Bitches. #essentialtheatre #labtheatrecompany #atlantictheatrecompany

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Stephen Adly Guirgis' HALFWAY BITCHES GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN Receives Two Lucille Lortel Nominations including Outstanding Play and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play for Liza Colón-Zayas https://wp.me/p8ilTC-64Z @offbroadwaynyc
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven features Victor Almanzar, David Anzuelo, Elizabeth Canavan, Sean Carvajal, Patrice Johnson Chevannes, Molly Collier, Liza Colón-Zayas, Esteban Andres Cruz, Greg Keller, Wilemina Olivia-Garcia, Kristina Poe, Neil Tyrone Pritchard, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Andrea Syglowski, Benja Kay Thomas, viviana valeria, Pernell Walker, and Kara Young. #lortelawards #lortelawards2020

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Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven written by @stephenadlyguirgis and directed by @johnortiz718 is nominated for a Lortel Award in the Outstanding Play category. Super proud and happy for my creative home/family @labyrinththeater. Love y’all!!! AND- congrats to @lizacolonzayas_lcz and @karaakter for their individual noms in the Outstanding Actress category. halfwaybitches #theater #homeless #american #playwrights #directors #designers #actors #fightchoreography #nyc @atlantictheater

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About a year ago, I decided to step out on faith and explore the freelance world of stage management. Since then, I worked on my first off-Broadway play as the Assistant Stage Manager on Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven by Stephen Adly Guirgis at the Atlantic Theater Company followed by working on my first off-Broadway show as the Production Stage Manager on Donnetta Lavinia Grays' Where We Stand at WP Theater, a co-production with Baltimore Center Stage. Today, I learned that both of these amazing shows have been nominated for the prestigious Lucille Lortel Award - Outstanding Play and Outstanding Solo Show, respectively. Congratulations to the playwrights, actors, directors, production teams, producers, and staffs on both productions and everyone nominated! #assistantstagemanager #productionstagemanager
#yearofthestagemanager #atlantictheatercompany #wptheater #baltimorecenterstage

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@nytimes “Off Broadway’s Season Shook Up Norms of Life and Theater: Our co-chief theater critics discuss the plays and musicals that reflected and predicted an unstable world.“ 🙏♥️🐐 #HalfwayBitchesATC #WednesdayWisdom

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“Halfway Bitches” had even more life per minute spilling past the proscenium than usual. I left feeling wonderfully destabilized by his unbridled empathy.” - NYT 4/16/20 @labyrinththeater @atlantictheater

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#Repost @billieholidaytheatre with @get_repost
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Before It Hits Home by Cheryl West, Directed by Indira Etwaroo, Score by @danielroumain, Behind-the-Scenes photoshoot featuring some of the theater world's most esteemed and elite actors!!! Performances Mar 28 - Apr 26. Buy Tix Now: See link in bio #BIHH #loveislove #Brooklyn #BedStuy #theater #BHT

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Hey Guys! Did you get your tickets yet? #Repost @billieholidaytheatre with @make_repost
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Before It Hits Home by Cheryl West, Directed by Indira Etwaroo, Score by @danielroumain, Behind-the-Scenes photoshoot featuring some of the theater world's most esteemed and elite actors!!! Performances Mar 28 - Apr 26. Buy Tix Now: See link in bio #BIHH #loveislove #Brooklyn #BedStuy #theater #BHT

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Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven, by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by John Ortiz. #labyrinththeatercompany #atlantictheatercompany #thecherrylanetheatre #RealLabLove @lizardcanavan @karaakter @veeeveee @asyglowski @pernell.walker @minagirl2965 @himollycollier @gregfacekeller @victoralmanzar_cazike @neiltyrone87 @sweetbenja @unkle_daves_fighthouse @kpoeness @theonlyelizabethrodriguez @johnortiz718 @stephenadlyguirgis

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Happy Burfdai to THE MAN, the legend, my hero and friend @stephenadlyguirgis ! Love you brother! Thank you for EEEEEVERYTHING!!!! You make my world fucking rad, dude!

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