Local transgender playwright performs staged reading in Asheville before New York production

From a press release:

Local transgender playwright performs staged reading in Asheville before New York production

INCONGRUENCE: A (trans) Gender Looking Glass, by Carla Pridgen

With the love and generosity of friends, a special staged reading and fundraiser is in the making. The play will be presented by Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective and the event hosted by the Asheville Community Theatre. Members of Phoenix Transgender Support have volunteered to lend a hand in the lobby and usher.

Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective produced the World Premiere of Incongruence in ACT’s black box theatre, 35Below. The company is thrilled to present this staged reading of the revised play on Asheville Community Theatre’s Mainstage, on October 14th at 7:30 pm. The revised play, co-produced by Will Pridgen and Ivy Theatre, opens November 8th, at The Fourth Street Theatre (NYTW), in New York City, under the direction of Audrey Alford, acclaimed director of the recent hit, Donkey Punch.

In the revision, a transgender entertainer named Tammy takes the audience on a journey into a looking glass of gender identity. With diverse transgender stories to amplify Tammy’s own personal adventures, Incongruence: A (trans) Gender Looking Glass, is about the other or the misfit, whether seen or sensed, that is reflected in anyone’s mirror. Tammy’s imaginative looking glass memoir weaves itself thru transgender related stories that are provocative: emotionally witty and gritty. There is something for anyone brave enough to pay attention and peer into Tammy’s looking glass that is, INCONGRUENCE.

Following the play’s successful run last year, Ms. Pridgen assigned the rights to the play to her son, Will Pridgen. As an activist adult child of a transgender parent, Will took his play to New York and to his good friends Audrey and Bobby Alford. After reading Incongruence, Mrs. Alford, Founding Member of Ivy Theatre Company and now Director of the play said, “This play has potential!” With good guidance from Audrey, Carla has rewritten Incongruence. The newly titled: Incongruence: A (trans) Gender Looking Glass is being produced by Will Pridgen and Bobby Alford (dba Ivy Theatre).

Incongruence, (Oct 14) features the diverse talents of, Dalton Allen, Joseph Barcia, Steph Hickling Beckman, CJ Breland, Paul Gallaher, Kirby Gibson, Patrick Hackney, Caitlin Lane, Darren Marshall, and Cary Nichols. Most are from the original cast.

All proceeds beyond local production fees and taxes will benefit the production of Incongruence by Ivy Theatre in NYC.

For more information about this production, and advance ticket purchase, please visit www.differentstrokesperformingartscollective.org