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Perisphere Theater presents the world premiere of "The Storehouse" by Joanna Castle Miller, directed by Amberrain Andrews. "The Storehouse" is based on the real-life interactions between the writers Harriet Beecher Stowe ("Uncle Tom’s Cabin") and Harriet Jacobs ("Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"). Attempting to become the first fugitive enslaved woman to publish her story by her own hand, Jacobs approaches the world-famous author Stowe for her help, and the result alters both of their lives and legacies forever. This play explores the structural forces that prevent people from telling their own stories and what is required of writers who create from a place of privilege. Joanna Castle Miller is an NY-based playwright, performer, and satirist. Her play EKPHRASIS, commissioned by We the Women Collective, received its first developmental reading in New York in September 2022. Another, SH@MED, was included on Kilroy’s List in 2020 and was a finalist in the Jewish Plays Project in 2021. As the founder and executive producer of Wait Don’t Leave Productions, Joanna focuses on projects related to historical memory. Amberrain Andrews is a graduating senior acting major with a minor in theatre arts administration at Howard University. Amberrain has been seen off-Broadway as Stacy in "Foreign Bodies" and as Lauren in "HIT! The Movie". She was the assistant director and producer of the Howard Players 2021 new work "21 Strings: A Rhyme" and the assistant director of Howard University’s recent production of "Seven Guitars". Perisphere's production features Ahdis Beruk as Jacobs and Allison McAlister as Stowe.