{"id":593652,"date":"2023-01-28T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=593652"},"modified":"2023-02-07T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T18:03:20","slug":"fargo-writer-lee-edward-colston-ii-returns-to-the-stage-with-l-a-debut-of-his-play-the-first-deep-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/fargo-writer-lee-edward-colston-ii-returns-to-the-stage-with-l-a-debut-of-his-play-the-first-deep-breath","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fargo&#8217; Writer Lee Edward Colston II Returns to the Stage With L.A. Debut of His Play &#8216;The First Deep Breath&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Edward Colston II is difficult to neatly define, and that&#8217;s by design. A former prison guard and MMA fighter who graduated from Juilliard&#8217;s inaugural acting MFA program in 2016, Colston has since pivoted to being an actor, writer, director and teacher. Now his play The First Deep Breath , a family drama set in Philadelphia that explores grief and the winding path toward healing, is making its West Coast debut Feb. 1 at the Geffen Playhouse . The inspiration for the play &#8212; a drama about a Baptist pastor and his family &#8212; was a true story he read about: A family in Philadelphia, some 12 years ago, was plagued by tragedy during the holidays when a firearm the son had purchased for his father as a gift accidentally went off, killing the son. &#8220;At the time, I started asking questions like, &#8216;What creates the conditions for something like that to occur?&#8217; &#8221; Colston says. &#8220;My journey with this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Edward Colston II is difficult to neatly define, and that&#8217;s by design. A former prison guard and MMA fighter who graduated from Juilliard&#8217;s inaugural acting MFA program in 2016,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}