Pousada Azul is a quaint, modest guest house overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, amidst the saturated colors of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. One rainy season in 2002, African American Expats Karen Wallace, self-appointed gatekeeper of Bahian culture and Tobias Walker, her fabulous gay husband, intertwine with their sole guest-Benjamin Douglas, a handsome but evasive New Yorker. They are visited by Karen's best friend Eliciana Santos, a vivacious Baiana who's carrying her first child, whose birth as foretold could possibly heal Karen.

The cast for the Reading includes:

Shá Cage as Karen

Ansa Akyea as Benjamin

Kevin West as Tobias

Hope Cervantes as Eliciana

Nathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn based playwright. His play, The Son of Dawn, had a members reading at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis in June of 2012. He has also participated in the Classical Theater of Harlem’s Playwright’s Playground and Theaterspeak’s Write Out Front event in the window of the Drama Book Store. Nathan is also a season 4 playwright for The Fire This Time festival.