Please join us for JUPITER INVINCIBLE — a live zoom performance of a new radio play and comic book by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa. Produced by Stella Adler Center for the Arts. July 8, 2021 at 7pm EST. Free tickets at https://jupiterinvincible.eventbrite.com

“A volt of magical realism highlights Jupiter’s life of slavery before the Civil War, and a heart that refuses to be enslaved.” — Yusef Komunyakaa

Audience members will see JUPITER INVINCIBLE, a comic book come to life through a dynamic radio play performed by the cast.

Story by Yusef Komunyakaa / Melissa Maxwell, Director
Cast (in order of appearance): Lorenzo Jackson / Maurice Jones / Pete McElligott / Mary Cavett / Olivia Washington / Pauletta Washington

Joanne Edelmann, Curator, Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series / Ram Devineni, Producer / Art by Ashley A. Woods.

The program organized by Rattapallax & Bowery Poetry and is funded by the Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund for U.S. Alumni sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Partners of the Americas. Additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Event is made possible in part with public funds from the Creative Engagement grant supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.