Please join us for a very special afternoon with local Playwright/Author/Musican/Composer Rain Perry to talk about her new play, This Is Water, a new solo show by award-winning musician and playwright Rain Perry in which she looks to her own family to tell a true story of American history, premiered at the 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

As the pendulum has dramatically swung from cultural soul-searching to non-White history being scrubbed from government websites, Perry asserts “I look at my life and I see what I see.”

After the social reckoning of 2020-2021, Perry—a singer-songwriter known for the theme song for the CW series Life Unexpected and other deeply personal work—set out to examine race the best way she knew how: by looking inward. She began writing down every memory she had that touched on race, uncovering how the people and the pop culture she grew up in shaped her worldview.

“This Is Water is not a play — it is an awakening. Rain Perry has created one of the most courageous pieces of dramatic storytelling I have encountered in my work as a historian and as Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative… In a moment when so many are searching for honest conversation without performative posturing, This Is Water offers exactly what our campuses, nonprofits, and communities need right now: a path to clarity, courage, and connection.” — Dr. Yohuru Williams — Founding Director, Racial Justice Initiative at St. Thomas University

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