CWP Presents

How to survive a blackout

Friday April 24 @ 7:00PM

The chapel at St. Paul & St. Andrew

How to Survive a Blackout brings us into the lives of five interconnected people in a house in South Slope, Brooklyn, trying to hold their worlds together during the north eastern electrical grid failure of 2003. It is not a threat from outside they face, but the simmering tensions from within their seemingly comfortable lives that risk undermining the security in their lives. Sometimes money, love, even constancy is not enough when what need is change. The play asks, how can we embrace change when everything around us is already spinning out of control, and what will the future bring?

About the Featured Artists

Elizabeth Cappuccino is a stage and screen actress. Her film and tv credits include Showtime’s the First Lady, Fox’s NeXt, Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Broad City, and indie darling Super Dark Times. After her degree in theater from NYU her stage credits include workshops at Ars Nova and Playwrights Horizons, and performances of the Penelopiad at Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She continues to act, develop, and direct work of her own and with her friends.

Dario Ladani Sanchez is a Puerto Rican- and Iranian-American actor & musician from Washington, DC. Off-Broadway credits include: Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons; Pulitzer finalist); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout); Uncle Vanya (OHenry); The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics (INTAR; HOLA nom. Outstanding Ensemble). Film & TV: The Life List (Netflix); “Dear Edward” (AppleTV+); The Shadow Wrangler (Shudder); The Bull Cage (NY Indie Shorts Awards winner, Best Actor); Carole & Grey, a feature created for TikTok and released in 45 parts. Work as a producer includes the horror-thriller Terrestrial, directed by Steve Pink; and The Olive Tape, a compilation record benefitting Anera and the PCRF.

Owen Campbell is a New York-based actor, whose screen credits include the films Very Good Girls, As You Are (Sundance 2016; named one of Variety’s “Breakthrough Performers” of the festival), Super Dark Times, and A24’s X. Television credits on Boardwalk Empire, The Americans, and Bull. As a theater actor, he performed in the plays Recall, Nocturnes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Grippe of October, Macbeth, and Broadway’s Hangmen.

Tenzing Kalden is a New York–based actor drawn to character-driven work that explores emotional depth and complex human relationships and is passionate about storytelling that centers psychological nuance, power, and transformation. Her television and film credits include FBI (CBS), Succession (HBO), Ramy (A24), and she recently narrated the audiobook Defying China by Tsultrim Dolma for Penguin Random House. She is excited to be part of this staged reading for How to Survive a Blackout.

Delaney Williams is an American actor whose many film & television credits include: 10 seasons as Counselor John Buchanan on NBC's 'Law & Order:SVU', 5 seasons as Sgt. Jay Landsman on HBO's 'The Wire', 2 seasons as Judge R. Gregory Scholl on Showtime's 'Ray Donovan', as well as a season as O'Connor on the Marvel's The Punisher, & a season as Dennis Egan on CBS' Blue Bloods. His most recent credits include guest star appearances on NBC's 'Chicago P.D.' & CBS's 'FBI:Most Wanted', 'MacGyver', & 'Evil' and as Kevin Davis in the HBOMax mini-series, 'We Own This City.'

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