Purpose:
Our world is plagued with an epidemic that requires immediate and effective attention. "BLINDSIDED by the Walking Dead" is a solution that is sure to help create positive change in our society by helping individuals cope with adversity and by promoting social and self-awareness, leadership and responsibility, adaptation to cultural differences, AIDS awareness alternatives to violence, drugs, sexual promiscuity and other ills that are glamorized by our many media of entertainment and providing women insight into the thought process and tendencies of a man thereby promoting healthier relationships. It is a powerfully explosive production that must be seen.
About the Show:
“BLINDSIDED by the Walking Dead" (formerly- IronE… The Resurrected”) is a one man play based on a true story that chronicles the life of “The Blind Side” and “The Walking Dead” star, IronE Singleton. “BLINDSIDED by the Walking Dead" shows IronE’s transformation by sharply contrasting the trials and tribulations of his life growing up destitute living in one of the worst housing projects in Atlanta during the onset of the hip-hop explosion and crack epidemic to his rise to fame in the Oscar nominated and biggest box-office grossing sports movie ever, “The Blind Side” and subsequent landing on The Walking Dead, the biggest show in cable television history.
Through drama, comedy, dance, spoken word and rap, “BLINDSIDED by the Walking Dead" takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotions and peaks with a surprisingly explosive conclusion. The main and only actor in this production, IronE, plays a multitude of characters. In addition to playing his alter ego, appropriately named, “Alter E”, he plays, Kid E, Teen E and Scholar E to depict his life as a child, a teenager and student athlete at The University of Georgia. Also, IronE transforms himself into a thug, crack addict, a hoochie mama, a drag queen, an Englishman, an Asian, a Hispanic, Richard III from Shakespeare, GOD and his own deceased mother before our very eyes. There is also a tribute to Dr. King and Gandhi. This show offers a perspective on the psyche of a young man growing up in America. Overall, this show explores the human condition and offers a solution to the issues we all encounter as human beings.