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ABOUT THE SHOW:
Michael is an aimless cynic who plans to coast through life alone. But when he meets Jenny at a temp job, their complicated friendship makes him reexamine everything. Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four is a melancholy comedy about how friendship, love, and art teach us the awful joy of being human.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT:
Enid Graham is a writer and actress living in New York City where she is a 2022 graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Program at Juilliard. Most recently, Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four was seen as part of the Scripts in Hand series at the Westport Country Playhouse. Her play A Long Time Ago in a Dark Yard at Night was performed in a 2022 reading series at the Hudson Stage Company, and her short play for Zoom, Do Not Go, My Love was performed in an online reading series, also at Hudson Stage. Golden was presented in audio format for The Falconworks Theater Company. What Martha Did received a preview production in the Launch Pad series at UCSB. Her play Ruth was chosen for the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center and the New TACTics New Play Festival in NYC. What Martha Did was a finalist for the National Playwrights’ Conference and a semi-finalist in the Blue Ink Playwriting Festival in Chicago. Other plays include: Smoke (2022 NPC finalist), Pathological Venus (2020 finalist NPC), Something Unrecognizable, The Plans I Have for You, and Saint Vegas. As an actress, her credits include numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions such as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and Honour (Tony Award nomination), and Television/Film including The Sinner, Boardwalk Empire, Margaret, Dawn in HBO’s Mare of Easttown, and Jo Madi in Rabbit Hole for Paramount Plus.
2024 OTR Reading Series Sponsors
The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation
Elizabeth George Foundation
Jennifer Ruckman & Ken Favell
