Foundation Joins With Fleet Bank in Sponsoring The Award Winning One Person Show Surface Transit

The Foundation For Ethnic Understanding was proud to partner with Fleet Bank in sponsoring performances of Sarah Jones’ one-woman show Surface Transit in front of high school students across New York City. In Surface Transit, Jones plays eight unique characters ranging from a homophobic Italian police officer, to a Jewish Grandmother, to an African American rapper in a 12-step program for rhyme addiction. The characters are meant to represent the broad spectrum of ethnicities in America and to demonstrate the author’s vision that certain commonalities link us all as people.Surface Transit strives to promote tolerance and to push people to see their own biases.

Surface Transit won the award for Best One Person Show at the HBO Aspen Comedy Arts Festival. Sarah Jones has been was written about in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Elle Magazine, Variety, The Village Voice and Jane Magazine. Fleet Bank and The Foundation have made it possible for Sarah Jones to bring her show to the following venues: Westside Theater, Lehman Center, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Queens College Theater, Colden Center For The Performing Arts, and Tribeca Performing Arts Center so that young people from all walks of life could learn about the commonalties and the differences between different ethnicities.

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The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding was founded in 1989 by Rabbi Marc Schneier and the late Joseph Papp. We are committed to the belief that direct, face-to-face, dialogue between leaders of ethnic communities is the most effective path toward the reduction of bigotry and the promotion of reconciliation and understanding.

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