Local Children's Author Doing Reading and Improv at NE Library

Tomorrow from 4-5pm, at the Northeast Branch of the Seattle Public Library, local children's book author, Meredith Berlin, will do a dramatic reading from her book, The Ghost Light Kids Get Hooked.

And the audience will have the opportunity to get involved in doing improvisations!

Berlin is a professional actor, director, playwright and drama teacher. She lives with her family in Lake City.

Berlin's blog says about the event "Anthony Bencivengo and Keara Berlin will be performing a scene from the book, and I will read a chapter or two (different ones from at the Lake City Library, so for those who want to join us again, it will be a new experience).

Then instead of improvising scenes related to the characters in "The Ghost Light Kids Get Hooked" and "Peter Pan", we will become Jacob and Maggie meeting characters from the play "Oliver."

These improvs should get everyone excited about the next book in the series, currently titled "Pickpocket: A Ghost LIght Kids Adventure." Who knows -- your ideas may change the course of (my writing) history!!"

The plot of the book is about a brother and sister who cause a blackout while playing hide and seek in their mother’s theater, and the ghost of Captain Hook appears. Berlin will stage dramatic enactments of scenes from the book and invite audience members to participate in improvisations based on her upcoming works.

Books will be available for purchase and signing from Ravenna Third Place Books. University Bookstore also sells the book.