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The Pardon by Harley Elias '24 MFA Directed by Tara Moses ’24 MFA Reading Friday, April 29, 6PM Sunday, May 1, 1PM Leeds Theatre 83 Waterman Street, Providence RI 02912 CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS Adultery. Shoemakers. Cults. Stabbings. Beheadings. Betrayal. Cobbler revolutions. Based on an archival document from a Lisbon notary’s office in 1582 that provides the names, dates, and facts, but none of the answers. A play about the unending act of looking back in search of those answers, and the wild kinky world of 16th century Portuguese shoe innovation.
Harley Elias is a playwright from New York. He has been the recipient
of residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, with Resonance
Ensemble, a Fulbright Grant, two Samuel French OOB Awards,
Young Playwrights Award, the Hester-Franklin Prize, and his Play #3
is published by Samuel French. As an actor he has performed in
several Broadway shows and national tours. Harley is a first year MFA
in playwriting at Brown.
Tara Moses (she/her) is a citizen of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Mvskoke, director, award-winning playwright, co-Artistic Director in Residence of Red Eagle Soaring, co-Founder of Groundwater Arts, Convening Producer of First Nations Performing Arts, and co-Founder and Executive Producer of #BINGE. She is currently commissioned by Audible, Red Bull Theater, AlterTheatre Ensemble, Kitchen Dog Theater, the New Now Commission with Lauren Gunderson, Geva Theatre Center, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Most recently, her work as a director has been seen with Spectrum Theatre Ensemble (Providence, RI); Red Eagle Soaring and ACT (Seattle, WA); American Indian Community House (New York, NY); Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.); Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program (New Haven, CT); Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective (New York, NY); telatúlsa (Tulsa, OK); Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company (Edmond, OK); Serenbe Playhouse (Chattahoochee Hills, GA); and Amerinda (New York, NY). As a playwright, her works have been produced and developed from coast to coast and have been taught and/or are currently in the curriculum at Brown University, the University of Arizona, UCLA, University of Washington, Oklahoma City University, Northeastern State University, and the University of Arkansas. She is a Participant in New York Stage and Film’s inaugural NYSAF NEXUS project (2021); Barbara Whitman Award Finalist (2021); a Cultural Capital Fellow with First Peoples Fund (2020); fellow with the Intercultural Leadership Institute (18/19); member of DirectorsLabChicago (2018); member of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center (2017); recipient of the Thomas C. Fichandler Award (2016); alum of the Allen Lee Hughes Fellowship (2015-2017); associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society; and Dramatists Guild member. She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Tulsa and is from the Muscogee Creek Reservation. www.taramoses.com