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No Child...

By: Nilaja Sun
Narrated by: Nilaja Sun
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Ms. Sun is a charming, cash-strapped teaching artist put in charge of a rambunctious group of 10th graders at a public school in the Bronx. While directing her students in a play, Ms. Sun must lift them up while everything around them is falling apart.

Written and performed by acclaimed playwright Nilaja Sun and based on her eight-year experience with arts education in New York City, No Child is an inspiring, multi-character solo show that examines America’s broken school system - and reveals the life and love that fill every classroom.

©2021 Nilaja Sun (P)2021 AO Media LLC Entertainment & Performing Arts Drama & Plays Theater Student Inspiring Heartfelt United States Funny World Literature Entertainment

About the Creator and Performer

Nilaja Sun’s Obie Award-winning solo piece No Child… was directed by Hal Brooks and was also originally commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble. It transferred to the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006, where it played for over a year in a sold-out run. The production returned for another run in 2011. For her creation and performance of No Child... and its subsequent international tour, Sun garnered 20 awards in addition to the Obie, including a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards (among them the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for Outstanding New American Play), a Theatre World Award, the Helen Hayes Award, two NAACP Theatre Awards, and the soloNOVA Award for Artist of the Year by terraNOVA Collective.
Sun’s play Pike St. was originally commissioned and produced by Epic Theatre Ensemble and had its world premiere at the Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side, which was followed by an international tour at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Pillsbury House, Detroit Public Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Hartford Stage, as well as Edinburgh, Scotland, and Melbourne, Australia.
Her TV and film credits include Madam Secretary, The Good Wife, BrainDead, 30 Rock, Law & Order: SVU, Unforgettable, Louie, The International, Youth in Oregon, and Rubicon.
A native of the Lower East Side, she is a Princess Grace Award recipient, and has worked proudly as a teaching artist in New York City for 20 years.

About the Director

Hal Brooks is a Brooklyn-based freelance director and has been artistic director of the Cape Cod Theatre Project since 2012, as well as associate artistic director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference since 2010. Regional credits: Heisenberg (American Conservatory Theater), Residence (Humana Festival) The Whale (Denver Center), Tigers Be Still (Dallas Theater Center), Six Years (Humana Festival), and Be a Good Little Widow (Old Globe). Off Broadway: Nilaja Sun’s No Child..., Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing), Sharyn Rothman's By the Water (Manhattan Theatre Club), Mona Mansour's Urge for Going (Public Theater), and Alena Smith's The Bad Guys (Second Stage). Brooks was also the artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Pearl Theatre Company. He is a member of LCT Directors Lab, a Drama League Fellow, and a recipient of the NEA/TCG Program for Directors. He has been a lecturer at Yale College since 2010.

Heartfelt Story • Impactful Narrative • Inspiring Message • Real-life Experiences • Excellent Voice Acting

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I read it twice and my son had to read it as well. Great read.

This is an Awesome book !

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The author did an amazing job capturing the wide range of characters in a high school classroom. The story had a very good flow.

Very entertaining

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I wasn’t sure about this when it started but I kept with it and was glad I did! You never know what kind of impact you have on others so don’t give up on anyone is what I take from this story.

No Child Left Behind

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Beautifully narrated, each character's voice and background was clearly distinguished. I really enjoyed the read!

Play within a play within a play

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I felt like I went back in time to the days in the schools of the South Bronx. The experiences, struggles, triumphant stories were so prevalent in the Bronx then are they are now. Thank you for telling our story. ❤️

South Bronx native

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