GENIUS, MADNESS AND MURDER: TALES OF THE SCANDALOUS FAMILY OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH

“To understand why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, you need first to know that very peculiar Booth family”. Asia Booth Clark, his sister, confidant and closest friend. She was a member of one of America’s most colorful, theatrical dynasties: her father, “The Mad Tragedian” her brother “the prince of players, and her other brother, the most hated man in America. With humor and the trademark Booth theatricality, she shares an evening of stories of the many triumphs, scandals and tragedies of the Booths as well as some little-known facts about that great national tragedy that forever changed her life and the country we live in. A sister’s story.

Dawn Truax has performed throughout the Tampa Bay area including Stageworks’ Angles in America, Medea, The Laramie Project, Talking with, The Trip to Bountiful, Kindertransport, Superior Donuts, Circle Mirror Transformation and 10 % of Marta Solano. She has also performed in freeFall’s Midsummer’s Night Dream, Studio@620’s Grace, Hattrick’s Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all to you, and Center Theatre Company’s The Crucible. Her play Dancing Egrets was selected and performed for the 2025 Voices of Women Festival and she wrote and performed in Strange Girls for Tampa International Fringe Festival.

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