At the @ArtofActingStudioLosAngeles, part of my coursework included choosing a historical figure to perform a fifteen minute one-person production of. In this assignment, we submit a proposal, and when it approved, research, write, design, and perform this piece with the intention of expanding it and having a piece of work that one can always perform in between projects.
The story I had the immense privilege to tell was of Dr. Gisella Perl, a prisoner doctor of Auschwitz. In her time there, she made impossible choices, and saved countless lives. I am humbled and honored to be able to tell an incredibly powerful story. She made a choice no one should have had to make, and she would do it again. It was a choiceless choice.
Special thanks to HMLA, Stephen Naron, Yale University, everyone at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Leighton Bowers (Director of Research and Archives Western Costume Company), Dr. Zorayda Alviar , Rachael Pollock, Jane Fliess, Tara Brown, and all of the support I got at AoA to allow me to tell such an incredible story.
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