TAMPA, Fla. – Vince Scarsella’s hard-edged, timely play about race relations in the context of a legal thriller will be performed at 12:30 PM, Saturday, September 3rd at the Mainstage Theatre of the Hillsborough Community College’s Performing Arts Center in Ybor City, as part of the annual Tampa Bay Theatre Festival.
The play is being directed by Hal Granholm and stars Kodi Ernewein, Dennis Williams, James L. Lincoln, Vette Berrian, Alyssa Yates, and Grant Lonye Cooley.
The play tells the story of a rising black attorney, Malcolm McLeod, who is assigned to represent a white supremacist, Hunter Kleiss, after Kleiss is falsely charged with murdering a black activist preacher. In additional to struggling with Kleiss’ racism, Malcolm is made to confront what it means to be a black in white America by a mysterious former leader of the Black Panther Party.
“Hate Crime” has been previously staged in Buffalo, New York in 2015 and by the Cause Theatre of the College of Southern Maryland in March 2019. Several other of Scarsella’s plays have been performed in community theatres in Lakeland and Venice, Florida.
In addition to playwriting, Scarsella has published eleven novels and three short story collections that are available from Amazon.com.
Tickets for the one-and-only performance of “Hate Crime” are available online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hate-crime-tampa-bay-theatre-festival-2022-tickets-368925785957
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