Film Brief:
The rough cut screening offers the virtual public an members of the theatre and film communities an advance viewing of a new documentary film, and the opportunity to provide constructive feedback to the filmmaker and participate in an intimate behind-the-scenes conversation with filmmaker Chuck Schultz and the film’s subject actor/playwright Sharon Washington.
When My Sleeping Dragon Woke (82 minutes)
A little girl grows up in a custodial apartment hidden inside a New York City Public Library, where her father stokes its coal furnace 24/7. Four decades later, the little girl-turned-actor Sharon Washington chooses the theatre to reckon with her fairytale like childhood filled with real and imagined dragons, family secrets, forgiveness, and world filled with books.
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