DCT GREEN ROOM 2008
Victor Lirio Directs Christine Toy Johnson's
PAPER SON starring Jason Tam (A Chorus Line),
Eric Bondoc (Pacific Overtures),
Susan Misner (Chicago, Gossip Girl) and
Pearl Sun (How the Grinch ...)
on Saturday, June 28th @ 7PM

The Barrow Group Studios, 312 West 36th Street, 6th Floor
ADMISSION IS FREE

Jason Tam


Susan Misner

SATURDAYS IN JUNE

June 28^th @ 7PM
PAPER SON by Christine Toy Johnson
directed by Victor Lirio
Starring Jason Tam (A Chorus Line), Susan Misner (Gossip Girl, Chicago), Pearl Sun (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) and Eric Bondoc (Pacific Overtures)

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. On a date with his All-American girlfriend Julia, he meets his match in best friend Gim’s new paramour, Dorothy Chu. When Dorothy finds out that Tommy was a “paper son,” the term used to describe Chinese males who immigrated into the U.S. with illegally bought identity papers, she pushes Tommy to face questions about his true family name that was lost in the transaction. Years later, Tommy comes to realize that it is the journey his family made to America that is bigger than all of them. Passing on a new family legacy with Dorothy by his side, Tommy Lee has his American Dream firmly in place. 

MONDAYS IN JULY:

July 14^th @ 7PM
KISSES by Andrew Bergh
directed by Steven Ditmyer

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

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 21^st @ 7PM
DAUGHTER by Cassandra Medley
directed by Carlos Armesto

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.

THE LAST STANDING PROTESTER by Lydia Stryk
directed by Jessi D. Hill

A woman stands alone outside the White House. She has something to ask of all who pass her by—before it’s too late.

July 28^th @ 7PM
BULLDOG WHISKEY by James McManus
directed by Johanna McKeon

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.

DCT’s GREEN ROOM will be presented at The Barrow Group Studios located at 312 West 36^th Street (corner 8th Avenue) in New York City.  ADMISSION IS FREE. For more information, please contact Natasha Marco, Producing Director, at natasha@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.