Zoey Martinson (Cannes, Tribeca Film Festival, BET) SWEET CHARIOT with Eric Lockley and Shariffa Ali (Under the Radar Public Theater) HOUND DOG with Machel Ross, Melis Aker, The Lazours (Ars Nova) Mona Mansour’s UNSEEN with Evren Odcikin (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) INSHALLAH/MASHALLAH ( Target Margin Theater) BENIMLE GELIR MISIN/WILL YOU COME WITH ME with Keenan Tyler Oliphant (The Play Company) MLIMA’S TALE (St, Louis REP) & THE COPPER CHILDREN with Shariffa Ali (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) STEW, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, with Zora Howard and Colette Robert (Soho REP) THE FISHERMAN dir.
Recent credits include: INCOMPLETE (Hulu) and CUPIDS dir. He is a sought-after collaborator in theater, film, dance, and experiential art. Ages 8–12.AVI AMON is a Turkish-American composer, sound artist, and educator.
With a thrilling Halloween climax (when else?) and Tony’s soul on the line, this ghostly tale lives up to the chills suggested by the title. Even readers who-like Tony-don’t initially believe in the undead will easily relate to his more commonplace terrors as he navigates middle school social cliques. As Uncle Charlie repeatedly reminds Tony, quoting Albert Einstein, “the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion.” When Tony moves to San Francisco to start seventh grade at Uncle Charlie’s alma mater, he falls in with the quirky members of the school’s Weird History Club and finds himself at the heart of a twisted mystery, seeing ghosts but unsure who to trust. After Tony Gilbert’s octogenarian great uncle Charlie moves in, they become fast friends, but their intergenerational friendship turns dark when Uncle Charlie dies but doesn’t leave. The second time he came, he was dead.” So begins this decidedly creepy tale from Newbery Medalist Avi ( Crispin: The Cross of Lead). “The first time Uncle Charlie came to live with us he was alive.
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