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Livestreamed on this page Monday 4 June 2012 at 5:45 p.m. PDT / 7:45 p.m. CDT / 8:45 p.m. EDT.

Washington, D.C., United States
Monday 4 June 2012

Same-Sex Marriage Town-Hall at Woolly Mammoth

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Monday 4 June 2012

 

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Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company presented a reading of 8 and a town-hall style discussion of same-sex marriage livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 4 June 2012 at 5:45 p.m. PDT / 7:45 p.m. CDT / 8:45 p.m. EDT.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company presented a one-night-only reading of 8, a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8, written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and AFER Founding Board Member Dustin Lance Black. Coinciding with Capital Pride 2012, the reading took place on Monday, June 4th. The reading of 8 at Woolly Mammoth will be directed by Alan Paul, Associate Director of Shakespeare Theatre Company, and will feature Woolly Company Members Jessica Frances Dukes, Rick Foucheux, Jennifer Mendenhall, Eric Sutton, and Emily Townley, with other prominent actors from the Washington, D.C. theatre community.

Following the reading, Woolly hosted a town-hall style discussion with the Human Rights Campaign's Legal Director Brian Moulton, Matt Nosanchuk from the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, and Maryland State Senator Richard Madaleno Jr., among others.

 

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