The Creative Team Behind Immigrant Drama "About Face" on the KGB, Grandmothers, and How to Nail a Russian Accent
On Wednesday night I had the pleasure of sitting down with a few of the women behind About Face, a new immigrant drama on stage at Williamsburg’s The Brick. I spoke with playwright Essie Martsinkovsky, director Anna Strasser, and actress Charity Schubert, who plays the role of Zina, a woman who emigrates from the Soviet Union in her seventies, and finds herself grappling with the horrors of war lurking in her p…