Pryor changes
dallasvoice.comTrans playwright brings needed nuance to trans play RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer rich@dallasvoice.com If Zander Pryor were to pick a favorite aspect of theater, he would say writing.
Over his acting and stage managing and most other theatrical duties, the power of the written word beckons him. And that is a good thing for the 19 year-old because his play — Parent, Legal Guardian, Angel, Other — will have its first staged reading at Undermain Theatre this weekend.
The Booker T. Washington graduate will head home to Dallas during spring break from his first year at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, N.Y.
But this journey to Undermain’s continuing Whither Goest Thou America: Festival of New American Play Readings started in ninth grade — which was just about five years ago. “I wrote my first draft then.
