Saturday, April 23. 2005 • The Earth Day Festival in Central Park • 107th Street & Central Park West

Created and Performed by
Dashana Adams
Dejon Mullings
Delvina Smith
Alexis Sottile
Rosie Strachin

Co-Directed by
Joanie Fritz Zosike
Lois Kagan Mingus

Dramaturg
Joanie Fritz Zosike

List of Scenes
1. Procession
2. Assume the Position
3. Rite of Opposites
4. Polluting, Asthma-Making Monster
5. Here and Now

ABOUT THE CAST
This program was made possible by a generous grant from Citizens for NYC, Young Citizens Center program.

THANKS TO: Rebecca Kalin / Asthma Free School Zone (Real World Foundation) • Jasmine Cruz / Young Citizens Center (Citizens for NYC) • Heritage School / Sandra Loyd-Blackman • Terri Carta / Central Park Conservancy • Anita Durst / Chashama • University Settlement House • Brian Hwang • Americorps–Vista

DASHANA ADAMS – I’m very active. I’m always willing to do whatever I am assigned. During my leisure time I play my favorite sport, which is basketball. I’ve been playing basketball for seven years. What inspired me to play basketball was watching others play. I really don’t like watching basketball on television but I rather play it instead.

DEJON MULLINGS – I am from Roanoke, VA. There, I was in a production of Grease, Robin Hood and Wizard of Oz. Acting is not my passion but I do enjoy the theater and am inspired by the talent that the theater brings.

DELVINA SMITH – You can call me Dellie. I live in an enormous family of 13 people. Four brothers, four sisters, one godbrother, one godsister, a godmother and father and beautiful mother. I live in New York City but I am not restricted to it. I’ve lived in Australia for two months, and traveled all over the southwest. I am an auntie, a student, a best friend, a wonderful girlfriend, big sister, little sister, a goddaughter/godsister, and now an actress. Welcome to my life.

ALEXIS SOTTILE is an actress, writer and teaching artist whose work with the Asthma Free School Zone
includes both drama and work on a book for use by Parent Coordinators in creating Asthma Free School Zones in their schools. A native of NYC herself, she has asthma as well!

ROSIE STRACHIN – I grew up in Manhattan, New York. I love movies and I attend the Heritage School. I love to act and soon will be an actress. I have one sister and three brothers. This is my life!

The ASTHMA FREE SCHOOL ZONE aims to reduce asthma-related absenteeism and illness in children by building a team of school and neighborhood community members who push for changes that improve the environment in and around schools. Rebecca Kalin is the founding director of the AFSZ.

Joanie Fritz Zosike and Lois Kagan Mingus co-founded ACTION RACKET THEATRE in 1998. They have performed and given workshops at New York Public Library, Queens Borough Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Head Start, East Harlem Council for Human Services, Hebrew Home for the Aged, Workmen’s Circle Multi-Care, YMCA, Cooper Union, Emerson, NYU and Western Illinois Univ. Lois specializes in movement, Joanie in voice. Impassioned devotees of experimental theatre, both are actors with The Living Theatre. For information contact: jhzosike@nyc.rr.com