Winter Miller, in partnership with New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater and NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) present a reading of Miller’s play Spare Rib at The New York Society for Ethical Culture's Adler Hall (2 West 64th Street, New York, New York).

The evening will be hosted by Samantha Bee, directed by Jo Bonney, the cast features Kathleen Chalfant* (Angels in America, House of Cards), and more to be announced, with music by Rona Siddiqui (A Strange Loop).

This one-night only event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s passing of Roe v. Wade. The fight for reproduction rights is far from over, so we gather together on January 23 in solidarity to raise money for Keep Our Clinics, the only national fundraising campaign dedicated exclusively to independent abortion clinics. All funds donated to Keep Our Clinics go directly to independent clinics to help them keep the doors open and the lights on so that they can continue to provide compassionate and dignified abortion care. Without clinics, people have nowhere to go.

Spare Rib, which The New Yorker calls a “quasi-comic drama about abortion,” is inspired by the work of playwrights Caryl Churchill and María Irene Fornés, and the artist Judy Chicago.

Doors open at 6:30 PM, and the performance begins at 7:00 PM. All audience members will be required to mask.

With support from: The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts.

Have questions about the event? Please email SpareRib2023@gmail.com.

Abortion Care Network
Abortion Care Network (ACN) is the fiercest champion for independent abortion clinics across the nation. Founded in 2008, we are the only national membership association for independent clinics and their allies. Independent clinics are crucial to ensuring patients can access the care they need and deserve today and into the future, which is why ACN plays a leading role in supporting the sustainability of these community-based clinics and the wellbeing of their staff. In fact, Independent clinics who are ACN members are 8 times more likely to keep their doors open than their non-member peers.

Keep Our Clinics
In 2020, ACN launched the Keep Our Clinics program to help correct the historic underinvestment in independent clinics. Despite independent providers essential role in providing and protecting abortion care throughout American history, most people don’t even know these clinics exist. Furthermore, these clinics lack the institutional support, visibility, name recognition, or fundraising capacity of national health centers, nonprofits, and hospitals, making it especially difficult for them to secure the resources needed to keep their doors open. To help raise awareness and critical resources for the most important health care providers most people don’t know about, we created the Keep Our Clinics campaign. ACN covers all administrative costs so that 100% of donations from this campaign go directly to independent clinics.

To donate directly to Keep Our Clinics, click here.

Winter Miller
Raised by activist feminist parents and schooled by Quakers, Winter Miller is surprisingly amusing. She makes and champions art to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Eartha Kitt once held her left hand for five minutes. Recent works include the 2022 premiere of When Monica Met Hillary “Intense, discomfiting, revelatory,” The Miami Herald; children’s picture book, Not A Cat, from Tilbury; and the libretto for the 3-D spatial audio radio opera No One Is Forgotten with composers Paola Prestini and Sxip Shirey, adapted from her play, which Winter produced and directed, called “a profoundly devastating play,” in The New Yorker. Her award-winning play In Darfur premiered in a sold-out run at The Public Theater, NYC. She is a founding member of the Obie-winning 13Playwrights. A former journalist, Winter wrote 70+ articles for The New York Times, and is profiled in The New Yorker, Bomb, New York Magazine, and NPR.

SPARE RIB by Winter Miller

A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Roe v Wade & fundraiser for reproductive rights

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