Heron does the Messenger in 'Medea'

HERON RETURNS TO NEW YORK STAGE IN “MEDEA”

New York- February 14, 2008

Award winning Jamaican Playwright and actor David Heron will mark his return to the Off Broadway stage in a new production of Euripedes’ Greek tragedy Medea, opening on Friday February 15 for a limited exclusive run at the world famous National Black Theater in Harlem.

In a new adaptation by acclaimed scholar Nicolas Rudall, the play tells the story of the Sorceress/Princess Medea, who is left for another woman by her husband, Jason of The Argonauts, and decides to seek revenge at any cost.

Tony Award winning actress Trezana Beverley, who won Broadway’s highest honour for her role in the original production of For Coloured Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf, heads the cast as Medea, while reknowned theater actor and singer Dathan B. Williams takes on the role of Jason.

Heron will play the role of The Messenger, whose dramatic entrance and vivid recollection of events, illuminates the audience’s understanding of the vengeance Medea wreaks on all those who have wronged her.

The production is directed by Award winning actress and director Petronia Paley, whose credits include Another World, Guiding Light, Electra and the Broadway revival of On Golden Pond opposite James Earl Jones.

Medea marks Heron’s third Off-Broadway appearance in less than one year.

He made his Shakespearean debut to excellent reviews as Laertes opposite One Life To Live star Timothy D. Stickney in Hamlet at The Workshop Theater last April, and appeared immediately afterwards in The New Federal Theater’s popular revival of Errol John’s classic Caribbean play Moon On A Rainbow Shawl, produced by Woodie King Jr .