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FSWW, in partnership with Zoomcatchers and The Billie Holiday Theatre is pleased to present Yazoo, Miss'ssippi by Jean Chiampi and directed by Byron C. Saunders. Jean Ciampi is a playwright, humorist and corporate communicator based outside of Houston, Texas. Mentored by highly decorated Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock, she wrote her first full-length play, "Potato Gumbo," while living in Saudi Arabia. It is currently available through Next Stage Press. Jean is the winner of the 2024 Robert J. Pickering/JR Colbeck Award for Playwriting Excellence for her latest farce, “Yazoo, Miss’ssippi,” and she is a recipient of Veterans Repertory Theatre Writers Grants in 2024 and 2025. SYNOPSIS: Yazoo, Mississippi, is an actual town located on the Yazoo River. Its name comes from a Choctaw Indian word meaning "River of Death." This is a fact. No one can make that up. It's begging to be a comedy. Alex Halldorson arrives in the middle of Newt-a-Yazoo-la, the annual festival celebrating the local winged newts. He's there to build relationships between his company and the local community, but the relationships he discovers are not the ones he expects. Family lies, broken ties, and why won't those Yazoo -- who zoo -- Yazoo winged newts fly? There will be a moderated critique session immediately following this reading. Join the conversation! www.thefsww.org www.zoomcatchers.us