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Encore atlanta9/12/2023 ![]() "It’s about every single place that’s in the city that’s running without insurance or not properly protecting their employees," she said. Now that it’s closed, Strong is shifting her focus to preventing nightclub gun violence throughout Atlanta. Trash and bartending utensils were tossed near the entrance and the dumpster was overflowing. When FOX 5 cameras showed up on Monday evening, the place was already being ripped apart. "I feel like now the city is finally realizing that this really is a problem." "It started with an Encore, but it won’t end with Encore," she said. Police said 21-year-old Damon Wilson shot Ross after Wilson was ejected from the club.Įver since Ross’ girlfriend Aaliyah Strong has been on a mission to see the bar closed, and nightclub violence in Atlanta addressed. Watch for it.Among those who lost their lives at the club was 28-year-old Ty Ross, one of its security guards. They are the only ones who can put their hands on people.” She’s hoping to finish the first draft this month and submit it for a full workshop as part of Working Title Playwrights’ Ethel Woolson Lab. It’s about an alternate reality in the history of time, in which the entire medical care system was designed by women. IN THE WORKS: An untitled piece that dates back two summers to another gathering of playwrights at Emory. “I love that it’s integrated, that you never really know what’s going to happen and that it’s close to the city.” LIVES NOW: In a 100-year-old house in Adair Park, just southwest of downtown, with her dogs August, a German shorthair pointer, and Sarah, a pit bill rescue (named for the playwright Sarah Ruhl), and cats Cori, Harriet and Possum. Meet people, work for them and introduce herself as a playwright and actor over team. HER PLAN: Contact metro theaters as a professional graphic designer. So it was Atlanta, and it’s the best decision I ever made.” She made the move “very, very consciously to become part of the theater community.” She burned out and decided to concentrate on theater. She taught graphic design at Truman State University, a school of 6,200 on the plains of Missouri, and Coastal Carolina University, a school of about 10,000, outside Myrtle Beach, S.C. in graphic design from the University of Memphis. “I was the teacher’s aide for the first drama class she took.”ĮDUCATION: B.S. “I met her for first time when she was 14,” says Daryl, who was an upperclassman. SOMETHING IN THE WATER? Daryl grew up in Starkville, Miss., the hometown of another Atlanta-based actor-playwright, Suehyla El-Attar. And vice versa. I consider it pretty crucial to my development to be doing all three things, including graphic design.”įIRST MEMORY OF THEATER: At age 6, in a production of Rudyard Kipling stories that became a children’s musical about how elephants got long trunks. When you’re really busy having plays produced, it’s hard to audition. “When you’re a freelancer, you kind of have to go where the work is. THE ACTING THING: These days she’s onstage less than she’d like, but she’s content riding the hot hand and waiting for the right roles. Her musicals have been awarded productions and development in New York by the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals, the New York Musical Theatre Festival and York Theatre Company. Plays that feature strong women.ĮLSEWHERE: She has been produced off-Broadway and regionally at Florida Repertory. Says Fazio: “Having those requirements meant I wrote a play about sex, which I never would sit down to do.” ![]() Each piece had to have four characters, follow certain other restrictions and respond to the 2010 nonfiction book Sex at Dawn, which deals with the evolution of monogamy in humans. The idea, which comes from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, gives four writers 48 hours to create work that responds to a common source material. In May, her Split in Three, a drama about three sisters and segregation in the Mississippi Delta, circa 1969, plays Aurora Theatre’s mainstage.ĪBOUT THE FLOWER ROOM: Its genesis is a July 2015 playwriting event - known as a “bake-off” - at Emory University. It follows an uptight academic who loses her job teaching primitive sexual behavior, then explores a new career writing erotica. NEXT: In December, her full-length comedy The Flower Room is part of the Threshold New Play Festival at Actor’s Express. ( Freed Spirits tickets HERE or at 404.584.7450 through Oct. Her play Freed Spirits, about a geeky band of explorers seeking out spirits in Oakland Cemetery after a tornado, is in the midst of its world premiere at Horizon Theatre. BRIEF: Daryl, 44, is an actor, playwright, lyricist/librettist and graphic designer who has been in Atlanta for six years.
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