ADAM KRAAR

Susan Einhorn directs a cast of Equity professional actors and students of Queens College in a workshop of Freedom High, culminating in three staged readings:  February 23 at 2 pm and February 24 at 10 am (at Queens College) and February 24th at 7:30 pm at Theatre for the New City.

All performances are free.  The presentation is sponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies at Queens College, Center for Ethnic, Racial & Religious Understanding and the Queens College Department of Theatre & Dance.

The cast includes Molly Carden, Bjorn DuPaty, Joel Reuben Ganz, Rachael Holmes, Shawn Randall, and C. Kelly Wright.

Inspired by actual events, FREEDOM HIGH takes place in June 1964, when black Civil Rights workers trained hundreds of white volunteers to work in Mississippi registering blacks to vote.  Jessica, a young white volunteer, has no idea has no idea how dangerous – both physically and emotionally – the project will be.  Instead, she throws herself into learning non-violent tactics and stubbornly trying to befriend an angry, wounded veteran of the Movement. 

When three Civil Rights workers who’d been at the training the previous week disappear, the volunteers and their leaders are forced to decide if they can risk their lives for a mission that seems doomed.  Jessica discovers the perilous complexity of her motivations, and those of everyone else involved.

Check out the reactions of some of our high school audiences here.