Staged reading of Ruby’s Harmonicas and Piano, Inc. will be performed on Saturday, March 14 at Club Car Baltimore.

Ruby’s Harmonicas and Piano, Inc. is an intense play about union organizing in the mid-South by Gregory Powell.  It is directed by James Brown and will be presented as a staged reading on Saturday, March 14, at 11:00 a.m. at Club Car Baltimore, 12 W. North Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21218.

Ruby’s Harmonicas and Piano, Inc. is set in a piano factory in Memphis, Tennessee, a year after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King. The play opens on the day before Ruby’s African American employees vote whether to be represented by a union. Four men and women risk their livelihoods and lives by demanding justice for the employees of Ruby’s.

The cast includes:

  • Nathan Couser – Remmy
  • Denae R. Nick – Catherine
  • D. Carter Andrew – Will
  • Michael Dorsey – Brian Dubose “Radio”
  • Micah Howlett – Floyd Holiday
  • Owen Roughton – Reuben Holstein
  • Denae R. Nick – Ruby Holiday
  • Paul Norfolk – Memphis Banker

BPF readings are supported by Mayor Brandon Scott and the City of Baltimore, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, Creative Baltimore Fund.