Mark Wing-Davey to Direct Benefit Staging of Tony Kushner’s Henry Box Brown Play

Mark Wing-Davey will direct a special one-time-only benefit concert staging of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner’s The Henry Box Brown Play: Political-Historical-Doggerel-Vaudeville. The Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will present the work at the Fifth Floor Theatre, 111 Second Avenue in New York City, on Sunday, May 15 at 5pm.

Set in England’s industrial north in the 1850s, the play is based on the true story of a Virginian slave who found his way to freedom by shipping himself in a box delivered into the hands of Philadelphian abolitionists.

The benefit is a remount of Graduate Acting’s sold-out engagement last fall of the previously unproduced 1992 play. The honorary chair of the event is actor and alumnus Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Proceeds from the performance will be used for Graduate Acting student scholarships.

All tickets for the event are priced at $250.00 and are tax-deductible. To order, call 212-998-1921.