“When My Sleeping Dragon Woke”

A little girl grows up in a custodial apartment hidden inside a New York City Public Library, where her father stokes its coal furnace 24/7. Four decades later, the little girl-turned-actor Sharon Washington chooses the theater to write her modern-day fairytale childhood filled with real and imagined dragons, family secrets, forgiveness, and a life filled with books.  But revisiting her past comes with an unforeseen cost.

It is in her solitary late-night revisions to pen an ending to her solo show days before opening night that the cost appears. She must descend and dwell in her scared little girl place from long ago to finally tell the flipside of her childhood story. It’s a time filled with uncertainty as her father battles with addiction and her mother copes with a life deferred. It is in that dark place that she discovers “I am the story.”

Following the screening of the film will be a discussion in the theatre with Sharon Washington herself and director/producer Chuck Schultz.