On Friday my wife and I were headed out of town for a chance to unwind a little at the beach.
Before, however, we got to the Bay Bridge, the nature and tone of our trip would change.
That’s because my wife, Lisa, learned that a young woman she acts with in the Jewish Theatre Workshop, died suddenly. The woman, Jennifer Johnson, was a frequent player in the Workshop and was also connected to the Jewish community through her work at the Pikesville Trader Joe’s.
She was all of 22-years-old. And she died of a brain aneurism.
My wife was on the phone talking to other JTW colleagues. They were in a state of disbelief.
Jennifer was to appear in the upcoming JTW performance of “All In The Timing,” which is scheduled to be staged Thursday Nov. 20, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 23rd at 2 p.m. and Monday, Nov. 24, at 7 p.m. All the performances will be held at the JCC Park Heights Straus Auditorium.
The show will, as they say, go on.
JTW is something that Jennifer Johnson really loved. There will be an opportunity to learn more about his remarkable young woman at all of the performances.
JTW will do its best to make sure that her memory lives on.
This play “All in the Timing,” is directed by Arnon Shorr, who many of us know as the son-in-law of Ner Tamid’s spiritual leader Rabbi Chaim Landau.
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May Jennifer’s memory be blessed.
And may you share in that blessing by supporting this theater that she so loved.