The Acting Company (Ian Belknap, artistic director; Margot Harley, producer) has announced a staged concert reading of award-winning playwright Marcus Gardley’s A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes: Or The Gospel of Tartuffe on Monday, November 8th at 7:00 pm at Florence Gould Hall.
The cast includes Denise Burse (Tyler Perry’s House of Payne), Jimonn Cole (X: or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation), Leland Fowler (If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka), J.D. Mollison (Octet), Adrienne C. Moore (“Orange is the New Black”), Chelsea Lee Williams (Girl From the North Country), and C. Kelly Wright (The Scottsboro Boys). Music will be performed by Tony winning Broadway Inspirational Voices, under the direction of Allen René Louis. The entire reading is under the direction of Ian Belknap.
Gardley’s play is a take on Molière’s Tartuffe, setting his new comedy in Atlanta where The Righteous Reverend Prelate Prophetic Apostle Toof, a preacher and part-time masseur, promises to lay hands on the terminally ill fast-food tycoon Archibald Beauregard Ichabad Organdy, for a price. His story rocks the foundations of trust, faith, and redemption.
Marcus Gardley is a poet-playwright-screenwriter. In 2019, he was named the Library Laureate of San Francisco by the city’s mayor and the recipient of the 2019 Doris Duke Artist Award. He is the recipient of the 2015 Glickman Award, a finalist for the 2015 Kennedy Prize, and a 2019 Obie Award winner for his play The House That Will Not Stand. Other plays include X: or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation, Black Odyssey, The Gospel of Living Kindness, Every Tongue Confess, On the Levee and The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry.
The Acting Company was founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley with the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School. The Company has launched the careers of some 400 actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Mary Lou Rosato, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Toussaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes, Jeffrey Wright, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Roslyn Ruff, Jimonn Cole and Kelley Curran, among many others. The Acting Company won the 2003 Tony Award for Excellence in the Theater, and recently won the 2019 Audelco Award for Best Play for its production of Nambi E. Kelley’s Native Son directed by Seret Scott.
For tickets, please visit www.TheActingCompany.org/Wolf or call Florence Gould Hall at 212-355-6160.
Florence Gould Hall is located at 55 East 59th Street, NYC
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