DCT GREEN ROOM 2008
Diverse City Theater's 4th Annual Reading Series Presents Original Plays About Family, Love and War
on "Saturdays in June, Mondays in July"
Beginning Saturday, June 7th @ 7PM
Broadway Stage Veterans Will Read at The Green Room Including
Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes (Deuce, A Delicate Balance),
Laila Robins (Heartbreak House, Frozen, The Real Thing),
T. Scott Cunningham (Design for Living, Love Valour Compassion), Lois Markle (True West, Steppenwolf's Grapes of Wrath), Michael Cumpsty (Copenhagen, Sunday in the Park ), Jason Tam (A Chorus Line), Cindy Cheung (A Lady in the Water)
Drama Desk Nominee Amy Warren (The Adding Machine)
 Marian Seldes
 Laila Robins
 Jason Tam
Cindy Cheung
 Chandra Thomas
 Susan Misner
Michael Cumpsty
Ali Ewoldt
Eileen Rivera
Amy Warren
Christopher Kromer
SATURDAYS IN JUNE
June 7th @ 7PM
The Barrow Group Studios at 312 West 36th Street
(The Garrett Room), New York City
YOUTH IN ASIA by Jordan Beswick
directed by Victor Maog
Starring Laila Robins, T. Scott Cunningham, Lois Markle, Thomas Guiry (Mystic River, Tigerland, Black Hawk Dawn), John Speredakos (A View from the Bridge), Ron Cohen and Chris Kloko
ABOUT YOUTH IN ASIA: Eric is a 43-year-old man who is not insane. It's true. Ask his therapist. But when he hears his abusive father is terminally ill and is asked to join his estranged family around what is most likely his deathbed, Eric begins to sweat ...
June 14th @ 7PM
The Barrow Group Studios at 312 West 36th Street
(The Garrett Room), New York City
DISINFECTING EDWIN by Amy Hartman
directed by Mona Hennessy
Featuring Michele Tauber, Sean Patrick Doyle and
Paul Whelihan
DISINFECTING EDWIN begs the southern question: will Professor Hollingsworth’s wife, Auggie preserve the Professor’s pregnant mistress, Cecil, in her canning cellar while being held hostage? Using dark comedy as a main ingredient, set in Temple, Texas, Disinfecting Edwin mixes human desire, manipulation and betrayal in real time, creating a delicious and heartbreaking recipe of love and greedy satisfaction.
June 21st @ 7PM
The Barrow Group Studios at 312 West 36th Street
(The Garrett Room), New York City
FAMILY LIES by Alexis Camins
directed by Adam Fitzgerald
Starring Deborah S. Craig (Spelling Bee), Cindy Cheung (The Lady in the Water), Steven Strafford (Spamalot), Sean Logan, Shyaporn Theerakulstit and Darcy Fowler
FAMILY LIES is a subversive comedy inspired by the hit 80's sitcom that made Michael J. Fox famous. More than a simple parody of the classic TV show, its underbelly is a dark commentary on being Asian in America. From the lack of representation on prime time, to how we’ve inherited a twisted view of assimilation, Family Lies bounces from sitcom to farce and back again, warning us and making us laugh at the same time.
June 28th @ 7PM
The Barrow Group Studios at 312 West 36th Street
(The Garrett Room), New York City
PAPER SON by Christine Toy Johnson
directed by Victor Lirio
Starring Jason Tam (A Chorus Line), Eric Bondoc (Pacific Overtures), Susan Misner (Chicago--The Movie, Gossip Girl) and Pearl Sun (How the Grinch Stole Christmas)
It is the summer of 1952 in New York City. Tommy Lee is a 23 year-old Chinese born U.S. army soldier, about to be shipped off to the Korean War.
MONDAYS IN JULY:
July 14th @ 7PM -- SOLD OUT
Ensemble Studio Theatre at 549 West 52nd Street
New York City
KISSES by Andrew Bergh
directed by Steven Ditmyer
Starring Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes, Lois Markle
What happens when three terminally ill elderly women, waiting to die, cross a stranger who offers peace through a kiss?
EMILY’S WILL by Maxine Kern
directed by Ching Valdes-Aran
starring Michael Cumpsty (Copenhagen, Sunday in the Park with George), Anita Hollander, Eileen Rivera, Chris Johnson, Michael Rosette, Cassandra K. Escobar, Catherine Rogers
A story of a female artist and her struggles to become a woman in a Victorian society that cannot tolerate her unique sensibilities. With the help of poems by Walt Whitman, a feisty and amorous French trader, a North West Indian village, a parrot named Joseph and a dog named Sam, she achieves her place as artist and a reconciled woman. Soon after, her father dies leaving his diary to Emily who goes to great lengths to bury the diary and the dreaded story of her severed heart.
July 21st @ 7PM
Ensemble Studio Theatre at 549 West 52nd Street
New York City
DAUGHTER by Cassandra Medley
directed by Carlos Armesto
Starring Elain R. Graham, Michelle Hurst, Chandra Thomas
Summer 2005. An African American mother in Detroit, Michigan is forced to cope with her guilt, helplessness, and outrage when her daughter returns as a physically maimed and psychologically broken veteran of the Iraq War.
QUARTER CENTURY BABY by Kristine Reyes
directed by Victor Lirio
Starring Ali Ewoldt and Christopher Kromer
On the eve of Carissa's 25th birthday, news of her parents' surprise visit causes turmoil with her boyfriend Jeremy as truths are revealed and she is forced to examine her life.
THE LAST STANDING PROTESTER by Lydia Stryk
directed by Jessi D. Hill
Starring Amy Warren (Drama Desk Award Nominee, Adding Machine)
A woman stands alone outside the White House. She has something to ask of all who pass her by—before it’s too late.
August 24th @ 7PM
The Beckett Theatre @ Theatre Row
410 West 42nd Street
BULLDOG WHISKEY by James McManus
directed by Johanna McKeon
Featuring David Newer
The death of his mother causes Eamon to re-evaluate his life. He asks his long-time girlfriend, Kusha and his unwed, pregnant daughter, Candy to move into his house.
ADMISSION IS FREE. "First come, first serve" seating. For more information, please contact Natasha Marco, Producing Director, at natasha[at]diversecitytheater.org.
About Diverse City Theater Company
Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization-run by artist playwrights, directors and actors - that focuses on promoting diversity and multiculturalism in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce powerful and though-provoking original plays that explore and examine diversity issues in our national culture, create multiculturally fluent theater audiences and advocate the non-traditional casting of actors.
Formed in 2003, Diverse City Theater Co., Inc. is based in New York City. For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org.
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