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Jimmy & Lorraine | photo by Andy Hart

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HartBeat Ensemble

Jimmy & Lorraine | photo by Andy Hart

Location
Hartford, CT
Project Title
Miss Gwen Reed
Fiscal Year Awarded
2021
Grant or Program
New Work New England
Grant Amount
$15,000

To support the creation and workshop production of Miss Gwen Reed, a new work written by Hartford’s HartBeat Ensemble and Connecticut-based playwright Lonnie Carter about the trailblazing Hartford actress, educator and migrant worker Gwendolyn Reed.

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A black man in a suit and a black woman in a stripped t-shirt and red kerchief with arms akimbo leaning their heads toward each other
Jimmy & Lorraine | photo by Andy Hart
Five actors sit around a table, play a board game.
Pegao | photo by Raymond Shaw

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