Blind Date - presented by Tallahassee Hispanic Theater

The play will be staged in the Carriage House at Goodwood Museum & Gardens on March 15^th and 16^th. Both performances are at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15, or $12 for seniors, students, or Goodwood members.

The author of Blind Date, Mario Diament, M.A. is an associate professor at Florida International University. He was born in Argentina, and is a veteran foreign correspondent and a former executive editor of one of the leading newspapers in Buenos Aires. Diament has had his plays produced in the U.S. and abroad. For his playwriting he has won the following awards: the New York Critics’ ACE Award for Best Play Blind Date, New York; the ACE Award (Critics’ Association) for Best Play Tierra del Fuego, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the María Guerrero Award, Best Play for A Report on the Banality of Love, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Florencio Sánchez Award Best Play for A Report on the Banality of Love, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the ACE Award, Best Play for Blind Date, Mexico City, Mexico.

“Blind Date” is directed by Judi Persons, and the cast consists of an ensemble of great actors from our community: Lanny Thomas, Marcy Palmer, Robin Jackson, Victor Duncan, and Louise Ritchie. It will be in English.