"Home for Mom" by Eloise Coopersmith

Join us as we welcome "HOME FOR MOM" — an afternoon celebrating bravery and the courage to tell your story, at any age, and through different media. At this special event, excerpts from the film version of Act I of the play will be projected, followed by a LIVE performance of Act II.

Home for Mom, created by Eloise Coopersmith (books, lyrics, and executive producer), is the story of three families facing the challenge of making end of life choices with laughter, tears and love. The work originally written for stage and generated out of Breath of Fire’s incubating space, has been transformed into a digital musical series, directed by Emiliana Ammirata, and has gone on to receive screen awards, accolades and acknowledgements. “This musical was inspired by my own family experiences dealing with my parents’ dementia. At that time I looked around on film and television and there was nothing that…