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Signature in the Schools: Here's the Deal

Feb 23 - Jun 30, 2021
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In Here’s the Deal, people are in economic ruin and there is a hot debate over the government’s role to solve the problems of an increasingly anxious American people. Is it 1929 or 2020? Stuck learning from home during the pandemic, students in Mrs. Day’s Theatre III class must think creatively to develop a play in their challenging circumstances. They choose to focus on the New Deal, the progressive legislation developed during another American crisis – the Great Depression. They learn that despite its good intentions, the program did not fully serve all those in need, and the students ponder if there is a solution that could help everyone – then and now.

Filmed entirely on the personal devices of the actors and crew, this new experimental film continues Signature in the Schools’ tradition of shedding contemporary light on historical subjects in exciting and innovative ways. Starring Felicia Curry (The Scottsboro Boys) and a cast and crew of Northern Virginia high school students.

Interested in sharing this film with high school or middle school students? Here’s the Deal was designed to complement the Virginia Standards of Learning for English, Social Studies and Theatre. Classroom viewings are completely free and include a teacher’s resource webpage and an optional free workshop taught by Signature teaching artists. For more information, email sigschools@sigtheatre.org.

To learn more about Signature in the Schools, click here.

How to Watch

  • Marquee TV

    Here’s the Deal can be streamed on your computer or watched on your TV through the Marquee TV app. The app is available on multiple devices, including newer model Samsung Smart TVs, AppleTV, Roku, ChromeCast, Amazon Fire Stick and more.

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  • Tickets

    Single stream tickets are available for purchase for $5.

Program

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Cast Members

Felicia Curry

Felicia Curry

Mrs. Day

SIGNATURE: Masterpieces...., The Scottsboro Boys, Motown: Hitsville U.S.A, Les Misérables, Broadway Duets. BROADWAY: Into the Woods. OFF-BROADWAY: Fabulation, Queens Girl in the World; We Three Liza’s; DMLRR: The Brontes, Petite Rouge. NATIONAL TOURS: Into the Woods; Kennedy Center: Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka; Mattel/Live Nation: Barbie Live!; Capitol Steps. REGIONAL: Arena Stage, Ford's Theatre (Artistic Associate), Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member), Factory 449 (Company Member), Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Rep Stage, MetroStage, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, VA Repertory Theatre. TheaterWorks Hartford. CONCERTS: NSO: Young People’s Concert, BSO: Holiday Spectacular, Marvin Hamlisch: One Singular Sensation. AWARDS: Emmy Award nomination, Audelco Award nomination, Helen Hayes Best Actress Award, Anderson Hopkins Award, Berkshire Theatre Critics Best Actress Award, RTCC Best Actress Award. EDUCATION: UMCP. 

Creative Team

Caleen Sinnette Jennings

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CALEEN SINNETTE JENNINGS is Professor of Theatre in the Department of Performing Arts at American University in Washington, D.C. where she joined the faculty in 1989. Shehas been a faculty member of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute since 1994. Jenningsis an actor, director, playwright, and a founding member of The Welders, a D.C. Playwrights’ Collective. Eight of her plays have been published by Dramatic Publishing Company, and her work has appeared in 7 play anthologies. Her 2015 Kennedy Center commissioned stage adaptation of Walter Dean Myers’ novel, Darius & Twigwas produced at Kennedy Center and went on a three-month national tour in 2018. Her play, Queens Girl in the World, did an extended run at Theatre J. and Mosaic Theatre commissioned her to write Queens Girl in Africafor the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival in 2018. The two plays will run in repertory in May 2019 at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland. Jennings’plays have been produced at the Kennedy Center, Imagination Stage, The Folger, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Horizons Theatre and The Source TheatreCompany.Jennings has received playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center and The Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, as well as fournominations for outstanding new play from the Helen Hayes Awards. Jennings graduatedfrom Bennington Collegewith a B.A. in Drama, and received her M.F.A. in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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