DCT GREEN ROOM 2008
Andrew Bergh's KISSES Starring Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes, directed by Steven Ditmyer and
Maxine Kern's EMILY'S WILL Starring
Michael Cumpsty (Copenhagen, Sunday in the Park), directed by Obie Award Winner Ching Valdes Aran
Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor
ADMISSION IS FREE
 Marian Seldes
 Michael Cumpsty
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
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
Featuring 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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