An evening of powerful stories
of transformation, faith and community
Join local actors to create an evening of inspiration
Saturday, May 21, 2016, 7:30 PM
Nassau Presbyterian Church
61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ (April 25, 2016) – Nassau Presbyterian Church (NPC) hosts an evening of inspirational storytelling with a series of stage readings or “testimonies” which are performed by professional and first-time actors within the Princeton community and members from the congregation. The testimonies are created from personal narratives that are artfully crafted from longer interviews with church members exploring moments of transformation and faith within their life experiences.
“I am very pleased to open our church doors for this first time event. Having professional actors perform the narratives takes us through the universal journey of finding faith, hope and compassion,” said Pastor David A. Davis, NPC.
The Testimonies Series is sponsored in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission and the New Jersey Council of the Arts. Created and directed by Adam Immerwahr, artist-in-residence at Nassau Presbyterian Church. Michael Dean Morgan serves as Assistant Director.
The result is a series of powerful, poignant personal stories performed by professional and first-time actors who are re-telling stories originally told by other individuals within the Nassau Presbyterian Church community.
A free-will offering will benefit The State Street Project, Passage Theater’s youth education program.
Admission is free. For more information, email or call 609-924-0103.
Adam Immerwahr, Director
Adam Immerwahr, former Associate Artistic Director of McCarter Theater in Princeton, brought his personal story creation process to Nassau Presbyterian Church two years ago and has created scores of profound tales of transformation, doubt and faith. The result is a series of powerful, poignant personal stories performed by professional and first-time actors who are re-telling stories originally told by other individuals within the Nassau Church community.
Michael Dean Morgan, Assistant Director
Michael Dean Morgan, a professional actor fresh from his Broadway debut in Amazing Grace, stepped in to assist in directing actors of these life stories when Adam took on the Artistic Director position at Theater J, the nation’s largest and most prominent Jewish theater company, located in Washington, D.C. Mr. Morgan, a member of NPC, also teaches at Princeton Theological Seminary.
About Passage Theater
Integral to our mission is our commitment to the local community and we serve the young people of Trenton through our education mentoring program, The State Street Project. This program empowers young people of inner city Trenton who may otherwise be at risk of being caught in urban delinquent life. The Project creates opportunities in the theatre arts where each person’s self-worth and diversity of imagination are realized. For more information go to www.passagetheatre.org.