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Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank St
enter through courtyard
New York, NY 10014

Painting on Home Page by Jack Yeats

With Terence Buck, Beth Griffith, and Joel Rooks
Music by Sean O Riada
Presented by Alison Armstrong

Terence Burk TV credits include “Americas Most Wanted” “Third Watch” (Walsh) and “Law And Order” episodes: “C.O.D”.as Murray K., “Performance” as Mr. Marx. Besides acting, also a playwright and novelist. His play “The Flower Palace,” written while a member of City Rep. Theatre Co., was first performed in a reading two nights at Westbeth Theatre with the great Kate Reid and Helen Gallagher. He also toured the city in “The Marriage Proposal” by Chekhov, for City Rep. and also toured twice with Brian Bedford with his one man Shakespeare show as Stage Manager at several universities in Canada and the U.S.
Burk is currently working on a new novel as well as a screenplay for his first novel, “Cast Iron Kate.” Westbeth Artist Page

Beth Griffith actor, musician, singer has performed and toured extensively. She recently appeared in the 2024 world premier of “Meltdown'” by Toby Armour at Theater for the New City.

Joel Rooks has worked steadily in theatre, both on and off Broadway as well as throughout the U.S. and overseas, in addition to appearing in film and on TV, he has played a character in Grand Theft Auto V. Among a variety of roles, Rooks has portrayed an Orthodox man visiting a brothel, an Israeli intelligence officer, and Sigmund Freud. And since the mid-2000s, he has starred as George Burns in the one-man show “Say Goodnight Gracie: The Life, Laughter and Love of George Burns and Gracie Allen” by Rupert Holmes. Rooks is a member of the faculty at the William Esper Studio and a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. His most recent appearance was on “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel”.Joel Rooks Interview

Alison Armstrong’s life time involvement in Irish literature includes authoring, The Joyce of Cooking (Station Hill Press, 1986) and a volume of textual scholarship, “The Herne’s Egg” by W.B. Yeats: The Manuscript Materials (Cornell Univ. Press, 1993). Her essays and reviews have appeared in A Wake Newslitter, Irish Literary Supplement, James Joyce Literary Supplement, American Arts Quarterly, etc.; short fiction and poetry have been published in BOMB magazine, Exquisite Corpse, James Joyce Broadsheet, Mid-American Review, PN Review, etc. A one act play, “Ismene,” – in a projected series of staged monologues — was published in Notre Dame Review (Summer 2009). Her paintings and small sculptures have been widely exhibited since 1980 and are held in many private collections.Spotlight Writers’ Room