For more than 20 years Jean-Remy Monnay has been acting on Capital Region stages, serving many companies who wish to have more diversity in their productions.

“I was dropping my kids off so they could audition for ‘Ragtime’ at SLOC and somebody there said, ‘Hey, we could use you, too,'” remembered Wafer, who is starring in the title role in “Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist” Friday and Saturday at the Schenectady Civic Playhouse. “I said, ‘No way, I can’t do that. That’s for other people.’ But I ended up doing it, and it was so much fun.”

Unlike most parents, the Soul Rebel Performance Troupe welcomes talk back.

The nonprofit acting group will present a staged reading of "The Exonerated" on May 19-21, at the First Congregational Church on Quail Street. Each performance will be followed by a talk back with the cast.