Staged Reading of Pushkin by Jonathan Leaf

A few months after meeting the playwright, Jonathan Leaf, at the Pushkin EPA callbacks, he reached out to me about playing Pushkin’s young wife, Natalya, in a reading of the play.

Since that first reading, Jonathan has put up many staged readings of the play. I was lucky enough to be a part of all of them and to act across Harry Lennix (The Matrix, Blacklist) at the Manhattan Theatre Club Studios for multiple of the readings.

I am deeply excited to have the opportunity to work with Leaf, Lennix, and the other talented artists involved, in addition to having the incredible honor of playing Natalya -a smart, independent, young woman who knows her strengths and uses them to raise her and her family’s status.

The play was also featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of the four best new plays of 2018! https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-theater-of-2018-world-class-talent-on-and-off-the-great-white-way-11545158924

Description of the play below:

“Pushkin, a new verse play written by Jonathan Leaf, examines the final two-years in the life of Russia’s most enduring poet, Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin chronicles the sufferings of an artist of modest rank and mixed race, the confrontation between his exceptional talent and a flawed society, and the painful choice between duty and personal happiness. In his struggles to end serfdom and reform his homeland, Pushkin, Russia’s first literary superstar, raised his voice above exile and censorship to turn his art into a substitute for politics.”