{"id":3428,"date":"2017-02-16T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maplewoodbarn.com\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2017-02-16T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:03:03","slug":"welcome-raisin-in-the-sun-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/16\/welcome-raisin-in-the-sun-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome &#8220;Raisin in the Sun&#8221; Director&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Bruington (Director of &#8220;A Raisin in the Sun&#8221;)&#8230; is making her Directing debut here at Maplewood. She has been acting in shows with &#8220;the Barn&#8221; since 2011. The first was a production of &#8220;The\u00a0Odd Couple&#8221; (Female version). Erica has been in two University of Missouri theater plays, and a Columbia Entertainment production. In 2015, she had the opportunity to appear in a motion picture &#8220;Almost Christmas&#8221;, directed by nationally acclaimed Playwright, filmmaker, David E. Talbert, which showed in theaters November 2016. She has also attended some of Mr. Talbert&#8217;s acting workshops which helps her to bring variety of knowledge and experience to this show. Erica currently works for Columbia Public Schools as a middle school teacher. She also attends and serves in the area of finance with her local church, Urban Empowerment. Erica has a lifelong dream of gracing the big screen again as a leading actress. She would like for everyone to know that it is never too late to pursue your dreams!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3429 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maplewoodbarn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Erica-219x300.png\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Bruington (Director of &#8220;A Raisin in the Sun&#8221;)&#8230; is making her Directing debut here at Maplewood. She has been acting in shows with &#8220;the Barn&#8221; since 2011. The first was a production of &#8220;The\u00a0Odd Couple&#8221; (Female version). Erica has been in two University of Missouri theater plays, and a Columbia Entertainment production. In 2015, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maplewoodbarn.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}