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Written
by
Shareef
Hadid Jenkins
Shareef Hadid Jenkins is a playwright living in the South Bronx of New York. Shareef graduated from Philadelphia’s Temple University’s Theater program in (BA) 2000. “The Three Mothers of Zachary” is his first play
and was produced by Gladys productions at the Shubin Theater in Philadelphia in April of 2000. The show was Produced by the Bug theater in Denver Colorado Directed by John Mandes (former Philadelphia Gay News Editor) in the same year.
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“The
Three Mothers of Zachary was inspired by a thirteen year old
boy I met when I was fourteen. Scott Rowan and I met at The
Attic, an LGBT support group for youth in Philadelphia during
the summer of 1993. He shined over the group with such
excitement about where his life would take him. Scott, Like so
many young confused gay teens had no support from his biological
family and ended up in more than three foster homes in one year.
In 1995, Scott Killed himself. This story is told by three
Women, Parents Mothers who Love the only way they know how, and
until there are no Gay teens who commit suicide I believe this
story will always be appropriate, will always need a voice.”
Shareef Hadid Jenkins
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Three Mothers
for Zachary
Runtime:
55 Minutes
Ages 13 and over
Zachary, a gay teenager who lives with his drug addicted mother, is passed on to his conservatively religious aunt and ends up on the door step of a state appointed foster mother.
Three Mothers For Zachary is a series of monologues detailing the life of this gay boy and his relationships with these three very different mother figures. The play stars Nysheva-Starr , Cherie J. Patterson
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