A reading of “Lyin’ Ass”

In cooperation with the 21st Annual Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration (BLPC), the Price Center is proud to announce a reading of “Lyin’ Ass,” a play by Texas State Distinguished Alumnus, Artist-in-Residence, and Artistic Director of BLPC, Eugene Lee. Not since the first BLPC event in 2002 has a play by this award-winning actor, director and playwright been presented during the Celebration. In “Lyin’ Ass,” lonely characters inhabit this new play about certain conditions of insanity that force us to live with illusions for the sake of mental balance. The lies we live in and denials we nurture ourselves with. 

The Price Center, an historic San Marcos landmark that now serves as a community center, art gallery and resale store, will host the reading on Friday, September 1, 2023. The doors will open at 11:30 p.m. and the reading will begin at midnight. Seating is limited and reservations are required. A suggested donation of $10 will be donated to the BLPC.

Eugene Lee began working as an actor in the early 1970s and continues to appear on stage, in movies and on television. His acting credits include works at stages such as The Negro Ensemble Company of New York, True Colors in Atlanta, the Huntington Theater in Boston, Seattle Rep, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre, Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey.

His writing credits include episodes of Homicide: “Life on the Streets” (Emmy nominated), “Walker, Texas Ranger”, “Michael Hayes”, “The Journey of Allen Strange”, “The Turks”, and the Morgan Freeman produced television movie, “Port Chicago”. His own characters come to life through his plays, including, East Texas Hot Links, which has been produced on stages from Los Angeles to New York and London’s Royal Court Theatre and is published by Samuel French play publishers. His other plays include Fear Itself, Somebody Called: A Tale of Two Preachers, Killingsworth, Lyin’ Ass and the musical, Twist.

Most recently seen on Broadway in “American Son” with Kerry Washington and Stephen Pasquale and Jeremy Jordan in the fall of 2018 and in the Emmy nominated film adaptation of that play for Netflix and as General Mears in Showtime’s “Homeland” eighth season. Lee is Artist in Residence and Artistic Director of the Black and Latino Playwright’s Celebration at Texas State University. 

To learn more about Eugene Lee, visit his personal website.