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Award-winning actor Sharon Lawrence stars in a reading of Robin Gerber's new play, THE SHOT, about iconic Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham. The self-described "doormat wife" secretly endured years of domestic abuse from her husband. After his suicide, she took over as publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, where she defied the government by publishing the Pentagon Papers, took on President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal, and stunned her male executives who had bet against her success.
A town hall with playwright Robin Gerber, award-winning actress Sharon Lawrence, Bike City Theatre Company Director of Development J.R. Yancher and UC Davis Professor of Theatre and Dance Mindy Cooper will follow the reading.
Organized by the Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank and Bike City Theatre Company in collaboration with SPARK Theatrical and EMPOWER Yolo County. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.