UGA theater to host live reading of 'Mercy' TV pilot

The University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film Studies will host a live reading of the pilot episode of Angela Hall's "Mercy" on Wednesday.

The event is scheduled to take place at 6:30 p.m. in the fourth floor Balcony Theater of the Fine Arts Building.

The reading is free and open to the public, and a talk back session with professional actors will follow.

Described as a one-hour drama series with timely and controversial themes of race and vengeance, "Mercy" is a thesis project that concluded Hall's tenure in the Grady College's graduate screenwriting program. Hall received an masters degree in play writing from Georgia College and State University in 2008, and her satirical antebellum melodrama "Magnolia Blossoms" was produced at UGA in March-April 2016.

Performer and educator Vallea Woodbury, whose credits include the Alliance Theatre and The Second City, is the production manager of the "Mercy" event and will be part of the cast of the live reading.