I Am Troy Davis: A Theatrical Protest to the Death Penalty
By Phillip Montgomery, based on the book by Jen Marlowe and Martina Davis-Correia with Troy Anthony Davis
A staged reading of I Am Troy Davis will be performed in NYC on Dec 8 to protest the death penalty. Troy was an innocent man on Georgia’s death row, who was executed in 2011. I Am Troy Davis takes us inside a violent criminal justice system where life and death hang in the balance. It is also a testament to the power of love and resilience of family. The performers are all death row survivors, family members of death row prisoners and wrongfully convicted people, family members of those killed by police and racist violence—those most impacted.
PERFORMERS
- Airickca Gordon-Taylor (cousin of Emmett Till, lynched in Mississippi in 1955)
- Aisha Salaam-Malone (sister of Yusef Salaam, from the Central Park 5 case)
- Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson (uncle of Oscar Grant, killed by BART police in 2009)
- Delia Perez Meyer (sister of Louis Castro Perez, on TX death row with an innocence case)
- Eric Taylor (actor-activist)
- Gwenn Carr (mother of Eric Garner, killed by NYPD in 2014)
- Lawrence Hayes (former death row prisoner in NY State)
- Lee Wengraf (organizer and author)
- Phyllis Prentice (married to death row exonoree Shujaa Graham)
- Ron Davis (father of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old shot and killed in 2012 in Jacksonville, FL)
- Sabrina Butler (exonerated from MS death row)
- Sera-Lys McArthur (actor-activist)
- Sharonne Salaam (mother of Yusef Salaam, from the Central Park 5 case)
- Shujaa Graham (exonerated from CA death row)
- Yvette Allen (sister of Billie Allen, an artist on federal death row with an innocence case.)The event will also include Billie Allen’s artwork, a post-performance discussion with the participants, and a call to action.
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
224 Waverly Place
New York, NY 10014
*NOTE: Rattlestick Theatre is not an ADA facility
Suggested donation: $15/ticket
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