Grace Aki’s solo play To Free a Mockingbird, the critically acclaimed and award-winning production, will play a limited run at SoHo Playhouse May 12 – 25, for 10 performances ONLY. The play had its international debut last summer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was developed by Michael Fling and Kate Robards.
To Free a Mockingbird is a play combining storytelling and stand-up. It’s the story of a family’s journey from Japan through the American South. It’s also a solo work with family secrets and lessons on how our stories get told. To Free A Mockingbird is a vulnerable and daring piece, filled with effortless humor and honesty. This is her story and maybe yours as well. After all, generational trauma is…funny. She’s here to rebuild and tear down the past, brick by brick.
Grace Aki (Image by Marc J Franklin)
GRACE AKI is a New York City-based playwright from Georgia. From Japanese and American Southern roots, Grace has a taste for many cultures. Grace is the reigning Miss North Georgia Agricultural Fair Queen, and graduate of Upright Citizen’s Brigade and The Barrow Group’s respective performing programs. It was under the training of Seth Barrish (Mike Birbiglia’s The Old Man and the Pool) that she developed a solo play entitled To Free a Mockingbird. She hosts the stand-up show SWEET MEAT, the storytelling podcast ‘Tell Me on a Sunday’ and Broadway Radio.
Mentions: Performances are Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm with additional shows on Sunday, May 18 at 5pm and Sunday, May 25 at 7pm. Run time is 75 minutes. Tickets HERE. Location: Soho Playhouse | 15 Vandam St., New York, NY 10013. Give the Grace a FOLLOW. Feed the algo.