Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) has announced the industry professionals who will take part in the “Dollars and Sense” talkbacks following the TRU Voices readings of Louise Schwartz’s CONTROL OF THE DIRT and Ali MacLean’s FINAL RESTING PLACE. This post-shutdown reboot of TRU’s popular series is a hybrid, returning to live performance with one play and using the lessons of virtual performance for the other. 

CONTROL OF THE DIRT by Louise Schwartz will be performed live this Sunday August 10 at 7pm at the Soho Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street, NYC. Cast includes Ezra Barnes, Linda Kuriloff, Margeaux Lampley, Elizabeth O’ Malley and Wendy Beatrice Waring. It is directed by Andrea Andresakis and produced by Sanford Silver Productions. A tragicomedy of grief, schemes and laundry detergent, it explores loss, love, and the limits of empathy. Reservations are required and can be made at https://truonline.org/events/control-of-the-dirt 

TRU’s “Dollars and Sense” industry talkback following the reading will include R.K. Greene of The Storyline Project, producer (off-Broadway Beau the Musical; previous: Harmony, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Lightning Thief tour, Farinelli and the King, A Time to Kill, Cougar: The Musical, Room Service); Jeremy Handelman (two-time Tony Award nominated producer: The Kite Runner, John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons, revival of On the Town; Off Broadway and regional productions of Brooklyn Crush, White’s Lies, The Chekhov Dreams), founder of Off The Leash Productions, a marketing and entertainment video company whose work includes promos and performance shoots; Bradley Reynolds, producer (Tony, Olivier and Drama Desk nominated producer: It’s Only A Play, Something Rotten!, Hand To God, Mothers and Sons, the revivals of West Side Story and Ragtime; West End: Master Class, Hand to God,Blind Date); Janel Scarborough, producer/creative investor (Single Black Female, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Tony nominated revival for colored girls…), co-founder TRU Diversity.