BEDAGGERED to Receive Reading November 16th Directed by Benjamin Viertel

BEDAGGERED by Lynn Clay Byrne (The Sextant) will have industry readings on Friday, November 16th at 11:00AM and 3:00PM at Ripley Grier Studios.

BEDAGGERED is an ensemble play featuring individual stories of young incarcerated men and the women who visit them. Set in the visitation room of an upstate New York county jail, these intimate and contemporary accounts of incarceration reveal how lives and relationships are indelibly affected by the prison environment.

Directed by Benjamin Viertel, (Loserville; Little Shop of Horrors), BEDAGGERED features Amara James Aja (Twelfth Night), Henry Ayres-Brown (Miss Saigon), Dria Brown (Hamlet/Saint Joan), Darryl Campbell, Karla Garcia, Laakan McHardy(MacBeth), Grace Rao (Troilus and Cressida), Malik Reed (The Bacchae of Euripides), Lex Smith, Sean Stokes (Grave Mysteries), Steven Robertson (“Elementary”), and Monica Wyche (My Old Man).

Darryl, Karla and Lex appear in these readings as members of the organization The Fortune Society.