The Emerald Turtle, a staged reading.

Carrie Gibson and Tony Curry present a lightly staged reading of the screenplay,

 The Emerald Turtle 

The Emerald Turtle is a ‘coming of age no matter the age’ story where the protagonist finds her authentic self despite a life of rules, training and inhibition.  When a loyal White House aide weeps her way home after Nixon’s resignation speech and finds her boy-next-door fiancé in bed with her brother, she runs away from her picture-perfect life and mistakenly hops on a cross country hippie tour bus that changes the very essence of who she thought she was. 

Featuring,

Alex Kunz, Twinkle Burke, Carrie Gibson, Elizabeth Darcy, Morgan Hallett, Jenny Maguire, Dimitri Archip,  SJ  Casey, Garrett Hendricks,& more.

Written by Carrie Gibson and Anthony Curry

About the event,

The Emerald Turtle will be performed by a wonderful group of Beacon and NYC professional actors with a wide and deep list of theater, film and TV credits. 

Carrie Gibson’s credits include Bones, Scream Queens, Superstore, All Rise, Hollywood, This is Us, Grey’s Anatomy, Lucifer, ACS: Impeachment, FBI: Most Wanted, She the People, Matlock, Scarpetta and recurring roles on The Politician and Barry. She can be seen in the newly released movie, Weapons, King Richard and a number of independent films on both coasts including a lead in a pickleball caper releasing in 2026. Carrie has founded two touring theater companies including Had to Be Productions with her writing partner, Tony Curry, and spent much of her adult life touring character driven original work on social issues to schools, and communities throughout the U.S. including performances at NASA, the FBI and the Pentagon. Tony and Carrie have written 6 screenplays inspired by true events.