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“Deft, powerful, lovingly crafted characterization…An effervescent, big-hearted, and very talented performer"
–Rob Avila, SF Bay Guardian
“She's going to be a star. This is a fabulous show you should not miss”
—Doug Konecky, SF Theater Blog
“Loose-limbed, graceful and rubbery-faced, finds the heart in each of the lost souls she inhabits”
—Jean Schiffman, SF Examiner
“This gracefully protean performer has more than enough talent and charm to make a name for herself…tantalizing, affecting and comically empathetic”
—Rob Hurwitt, SF Chronicle
So You Can Hear Me is a love letter to New York and voices from its public schools. The show is based on Safiya Martinez’s experience as a young twenty-three year old who, flashing hubris like a 9mm pistol, was thrown into the South Bronx public schools to teach special education classes to middle and high school students after only three weeks of formal training. She considered herself a super-smart tough girl, a born and bred New Yorker, who could take the best the City had to throw at her…
Bio:
A playwright, performer, poet and educator, Martinez’s poetry has been published in Generations Literary Magazine. She has completed the New York City Teaching Fellows Program and received an M.S. in Urban Education from Mercy College in New York. She also has an MFA in Creative writing from SF State University and currently works for Community Works, Inc, an organization engaging in arts, education and restorative justice programs that interrupt the far-reaching impact of incarceration and violence. She has conducted acting workshops at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center.
