Tuesday, November 25

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After just one reading rehearsal, Alessandra Mesa wowed a star-studded audience at The Lee Strasberg Creative Center, performing The Upside Down Man by John Patrick Shanley, alongside Alec Baldwin last night.

Mesa delivered a tour de force reading of the first of five one-act plays by Shanley in the world premiere of Outcasts, benefitting Baldwin’s alma mater. Mesa and fellow Outcasts performers Rebecca De Mornay and Jamie Hector are also alumni of The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Audience members marveled at the post-show reception about The Upside Down Man plot twist that followed a psychological inquiry into a sort-of-first date at a mediocre wine bar. 

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