A Brooklyn Love Story: Emergency Used Candles is based on the decade I spent living in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn with my maternal grandfather. It is a tale of the profound impact a grandfather and granddaughter have on each other as one’s life is ending and the other’s is just beginning. Though the story is an Italian-American one, it has universal appeal. Anyone who has loved and lost will love the story of Pop and his beloved Sweetheart.
Originally called “Emergency Used Candles,” it was initially presented as a part of Barefoot Theatre’s “70/70 Horovitz Festival” at the Kraine Theatre in the East Village. It was subsequently a sell-out at Emerging Artists One-Woman Standing Festival, before being produced at the historic and famed Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City and in Los Angeles for an extended run at Theatre 68 directed by Ronnie Marmo.
A Brooklyn Love Story, has been a critical and commercial success on both coasts, featured extensively in the press and is in development as a feature film. The feature film adaptation is an Official Second Rounder at the prestigious Austin Film Festival, an Offcial Selection at the 2019 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival and a Semi-Finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival.
