Shepherd's Scarborough Society to hold play reading featuring professional actress

ISSUED: 1 May 2007
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
(Shepherd's Scarborough Society to hold play reading featuring professional actress)

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Shepherdstown, WV--The Shepherd University Scarborough Society annual meeting, program, and reception will be held Thursday, May 10 at 7 p.m. in the Robert C. Byrd Center for Legislative Studies Auditorium. The meeting will feature Tonya Beckman Ross, a professional actress, reading from a play to be presented in the upcoming Contemporary Arts Theater Festival (CATF) season.

CATF director Ed Herendeen will provide comments on all the plays that will be presented during this year's festival. Those interested in learning more about the Scarborough Society and its membership are invited to attend the meeting and special program.

Ross will read from the play My Name is Rachel Corrie, adapted by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner. The play is based on the diaries of Rachel Corrie, a young woman from Washington state who lost her life in Gaza seeking understanding in one of the most chaotic and controversial regions of the world.

Ross holds a master of fine arts degree from Ohio University. She has performed extensively in the Washington, D.C., area including the Folger Theater, Centerstage, Ford's Theater, the Kennedy Center, Round House Theater, and Studio Theater. She also has performed in the Chicago area at Second City, Steppenwolf, Goodman, and Shakespeare theaters.

The 170-member Scarborough Society, sponsored by the Shepherd University Foundation, was chartered in the spring of 2002 as a friends of the library organization to support and strengthen the Shepherd University library system. In addition to increasing the bound collection, funds raised by the society assist in acquiring, maintaining, and updating the technology necessary to operate a 21st-century library and provide a scholarship for a student library intern.

For more information about the program or the Scarborough Society, contact the Shepherd University Foundation at 304/876-5397.

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