![]() ![]() Elmo’s Fire, as well as more recent leading roles in High Art, Psych, and The Little Sister, directed the powerful young actress Damaras Obi, who originated the role of Lynda, and adapted Lynda Blackmon Lowery’s book into a theater production, which was performed as a workshop at LaGuardia.Īs a one-woman show, Turning 15 toured upstate New York and New York City. ![]() Ally Sheedy, known for her performances in The Breakfast Club and St. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City. The show features an ensemble of African American actor-singers who bring the 1960s to life on the stage through the soul-stirring music of the Civil Rights Movement. She believed that “a voteless people is a hopeless people,” and put her life on the line, non-violently, to prove that anyone can change history no matter how young or powerless they seem. to secure the right to vote for African Americans. ![]() Jailed nine times before the march and badly beaten on Bloody Sunday, Lynda and her neighbors fought alongside Dr. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom tells the inspiring, true story of Lynda Blackmon, who celebrated her 15th birthday on the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. ![]()
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