Actors become one-person storytellers in SaraSolo Festival shows
Ortiz, a teacher who has been seen on stage at Asolo Repertory Theatre and the Banyan Theater, was part of the first SaraSolo festival in 2015 with his play “My Prodigal Son.” His new piece, directed by Bob Vernon, deals with the impact Trayvon Martin’s death has an on an acting class for a group of multiracial at-risk students and their teachers. Ortiz is a former faculty member and administrator at Oasis Middle School in Bradenton. Dennis McSorley of Vermont will perform “Box of Squirrels,” about the early experience of a teacher in an inner-city New York school and how it shaped ...
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