Ali’s play, Final Resting Place, the TRU Voices 2025 selection, was filmed and streamed live at Tin Mirror Studios this past Sunday.
Ali’s play, “A dramatic portrayal aimed at shedding light on the often-silenced issue of violence against women.” was part of Theater Resource Unlimited’s TRU Voices Play Reading Series
The play was filmed on 12 different sets as a a hybrid live/virtual performance at the Long Island production studio.
The cast included film, television and theater veterans Allison Blaize, Seamus Dever, Ali MacLean, Judith Feingold, Cheryl Games, Alina Gloria Garcia, TT Jones, Anamari Mesa, Nikki Neurohr, Eileen Sugameil, Alison Wien and Jasmine Reneé Williamson.
Final Resting Place was directed by award-winning Kathryn Keats, written by award-winning playwright, actor, and television writer Ali MacLean, and produced by award-winning and entertainment veteran John Lant in association with Write Act Repertory and Tin Mirror Studios. Technical Producers were Tamra Pica, Spiro Prekas with team members of TRU.
FINAL RESTING PLACE shines a light on violence against women in the current age of multi & social media. The story gives a voice to women whose deaths are sensationalized, but whose stories often go untold. The project is a composite of monologues from a diverse group of women, some victims from beyond the grave, some family left behind, others are survivors who remain nameless while the killer has become infamous.
These confessions are intertwined with a satirical, behind-the-scenes peek at a slasher movie franchise based on the murders as well as a dialogue between two true crime loving housewives. Soon the audience can’t tell fact from fiction. And that is exactly what Final Resting Place hopes to highlight. Our country’s obsession with true crime, murder podcasts, and horror porn flicks that have made the killing of women America’s favorite pastime.
The live stream was part of the TRU Voices series and was followed by a TRU’s “Dollars and Sense” industry talk back with Broadway veterans R.K. Greene, Lorca Peress, and special guest Kimberly Harris of Women’s HQ. A domestic violence survivor and advocate, Ms. Harris lead 1-1 crisis management for victims of domestic and physical violence, and was a democratic special advisor to the past Obama administrations.
More about the play can be found at NPX.
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