Former Marine Adam Driver reveals why he believes plays can help veterans, service members and their families
For the eleventh time since its founding, Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit organization founded by Academy Award-nominated actor and former U.S. Marine Adam Driver, and his wife, the actress Joanne Tucker, brought high-quality theater to active duty service members, veterans and their families on Broadway.
U.S. Army officers and cadets from the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York pose for a photograph before taking in a performance of 'A Raisin in the Sun' by the playwright Lorraine Hansberry and performed by Arts in the Armed Forces, a non-profit organization founded by Academy Award-nominated actor and former U.S. Marine infantryman Adam Driver, and his wife, the actress Joanne Tucker.
"In a few weeks, thanks to a generous sponsorship from Netflix, our team will be boarding a plane to Djibouti, Africa to perform," at Camp Lemonnier, the primary base of operations for U.S. Africa Command in the Horn of Africa, said Lindsay Miserandino, the executive director of Arts in the Armed Forces.
Actor Adam Driver listens to a question from the audience at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City on Veterans Day 2019.is set in the post-World War II era on Chicago's South Side and centers on the dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger household, an African-American family navigating the racial tensions of the day and their own poverty-stricken social-economic status.
One of those singular but connecting moments for veterans in the audience came through one of the play's central characters, Walter Lee Younger, played by Colman Domingo, a Tony-nominated actor and playwright best known for performances in 2012's Lincoln and 2014's Selma.
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