Garcelle Beauvais And Jack McGee Join Cast For VDAY Santa Monica Performances

Online, March 17, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Garcelle Beauvais and Jack McGee are two of several new celebrity additions to the cast supporting VDay Santa Monica 2011, a charitable event to raise awareness about domestic violence and funds to support its victims. VDAY Santa Monica events include two performances: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer featuring Dylan McDermott, on March 25 at 8 p.m, and The Vagina Monologues on March 26 at 8 p.m. Both shows will take place at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica. The celebration concludes with a Red Carpet After Party sponsored by Lexus Santa Monica at 10 p.m. on the 26th.

VDay is a global movement to end violence against women and girls started in 1998 by Eve Ensler and inspired by her award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues. One-hundred percent of proceeds raised by VDay Santa Monica will support the cause - 90% locally to Peace Over Violence and 10% to this year's international VDay spotlight area, Haiti.

Talent Update:
Barbara Bain -Mission: Impossible television series
Garcelle Beauvais - The Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue
"Luscious Liz" Hernandez - Power 106 radio personality
Cleo King - The Hangover (cop)
Dylan McDermott - The Practice
Jack McGee -The Fighter (father)
Sekou - award-winning slam poet
Larry Wilmore - The Bernie Mac Show, The Daily Show

Additional Event Details:
Friday Evening Program (March 25th) - The "V Men Monologues":
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer is a collection of monologues by world-renowned authors and playwrights and edited by Eve Ensler and Mollie Doyle. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, expose and examine the insidiousness of violence at all levels: brutality, neglect, a punch, even a put-down. The evening includes special musical performances by soul recording artist Chris Pierce.

Saturday Evening Program (March 26th):
The Vagina Monologues chronicles major events experienced in women's lives through their association with the vagina. A recurring theme throughout this emotionally diverse conversation is the vagina as a tool of female empowerment and the ultimate embodiment of individuality. The show concludes with a guest performance by the Compton-based 2010 National Gospel Choir winners, Voices of Destiny.

All performances directed by Iona Morris.

The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage is located at 1310 11th St. in Santa Monica.

About VDay:
Our mission is simply: an organized response against violence toward women. "A vision; we see a world where women live safely and freely. A demand; rape, incest, battery, genital mutilation and sexual slavery must end now. A spirit; we believe women should spend their lives creating and thriving rather than surviving and recovering from terrible atrocities. A process; we will work as long as it takes. We will not stop until the violence stops. A day to celebrate women and end violence. A fierce, wild, unstoppable movement and community."

For more information visit about VDay Santa Monica 2011, visit www.vdaysantamonica.com.

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