Sarah Bracey White, poet, memoirist, essayist, playwright, stage performer and Greenburgh’s longtime Director of Cultural Affairs – has created “Living on Stage,” a Black History Month event featuring monologues, poetry, prose and plays. It will take place from 2 to 4 pm, Saturday, February 15, 2025, in the Ossining Library’s Budarz Theater.
A lifelong storyteller, Ms. White was born in South Carolina and now lives in Ossining. In “Living on Stage,” she takes her audience along on her journey from a privileged 1950’s life in Philadelphia to Sumter, SC, and the challenges her reverse-migration to the segregated south presented for her and her family.
Actors from Ossining’s Westchester Collaborative Theater will give a repeat performance of Ms. White’s one act play “Something to Remember Him By,” which premiered at WCT in 2023. They’ll also give the audience a peek into theater’s creative process when they do a no-frills table read of Ms. White’s newest play “Sisters in Conflict.” Nine-year-old Victoria Pavia, also of Ossining, will make her stage debut in the role of Ms. White as a young child.
The show, directed by Misha Templar Sinclair of Greenburgh, is made possible by Ms. White’s 2024 Individual Artist’s Award from ArtsWestchester. The Budarz Theater is located in Ossining Public Library, 53 Croton Avenue, Ossining, NY. There is no charge, but registration is requested. Attendees are also encouraged to carpool.
https://ossining.librarycalendar.com/event/afternoon-live-theater-sarah-bracey-white-10571
Sarah Bracey White is a southern storyteller who uses her gifts to create poetry, essays, fiction, plays and memoirs. She is also a teacher, former librarian, arts consultant and motivational speaker. Her memoir Primary Lessons was transformed into an immersive, dramatic musical – at Peekskill’s Paramount Theater – which cast her in the starring role of her own life. Her other published books include The Wanderlust: A South Carolina Folk Tale, and Feelings Brought to Surface. Her essays have been anthologized in Children of the Dream; Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White; Aunties: 35 Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother; Gardening on a Deeper Level, Heartscapes: True Stories of Remembered Loves and Mothers, Martyrs and Jezebels, a feminist anthology. Sarah is also a frequent contributor to the Hudson valley literary performance group WritersRead. She and her husband live in Ossining, NY.
Check out https://youtu.be/JRICl7zLU_c, a “sizzle reel” from “Transcendence,” the stage show based on her memoir
