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A starry cast performed in a sold-out benefit reading of Ruby Rae Spiegel's Dry Land April 21 at MCC Theater's Newman Mills (on the set of their current production, All Nighter). Adrienne Campbell-Holt directed. See photos from the event in the gallery below. 

The company included Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Eden Marryshow (The Normal Heart), Alice Kremelberg (Orange Is the New Black), Alyah Chanelle Scott (The Sex Lives of College Girls), and Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers).

All proceeds from the evening benefited the New York Abortion Access Fund, which supports New Yorkers and people traveling to New York State to access abortion care through financial assistance, case management, and connections to other resources. The event raised over $18,000 for the fund. Complimentary tickets were also provided to over 30 NYC-area high school and college students. 

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Photos: Maya Hawke, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Dominic Sessa, More in Dry Land Reading

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Dry Land was first produced by the Off-Off-Broadway company Colt Coeur in 2014, about two friends on a swim team who discover that one of them is pregnant. â€œWhen we first produced this play 10 years ago, ​Ruby was 20 years old, and medical abortions were pretty new. Despite the fact that one in three women experience abortion, and the majority of the U.S. population supports reproductive health care, there are overwhelming obstacles to accessâ€� Campbell-Holt said in a statement. â€�Dry Land was one of the first plays that centered young women’s experiences: of pregnancy, choice, and body autonomy. I never imagined that Roe would be overturned and the roll back of family care so prevalent, defying democratic choice and public opinion.â€�

The reading was produced by Colt Coeur and Level Forward. 

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