DCT GREEN ROOM 2009--WINTER SERIES
DCT Green Room Presents PARIS & ALEXANDER
by Ioannis Limtsioulis on Tuesday, March 10th @ 7PM,
directed by Anton Juan

with Lucas Near-Verbrugghe* and Victor Lirio*
Theatre Row Studio Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, New York City
ADMISSION IS FREE

PARIS AND ALEXANDER, a Greek play by Ioannis Limtsioulis and translated by internationally acclaimed playwright and director Anton Juan, will be presented on Tuesday, March 10th at 7PM at Theatre Row’s Studio Theatre located at 410 West 42nd Street in New York City. Juan also directs the two-hander play that explores the bond between two soldiers—a poet and a vegetable seller—who serve in the same war for different reasons and who are trapped in the conflict between hero and traitor.

ANTON JUAN has been knighted twice by the French government receiving the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1992, and the Chevalier de l'Ordre National de Merit in 2002. In 1997, Juan received an Alexander Onassis International Award for Theatre, an honor conferred by the president of Greece. Today, he is artistic director of the Step of Angels Theatre, which he co-founded and is housed in the East-West Arts Center in Athens. In 2005, his play, "Taong Grasa," was presented by the Theatre Company Rinkogun in Tokyo. Juan is a native of the Philippines and taught at the University of the Philippines in the Department of Speech Communication and Theater Arts. His book on Philippine Drama won the 100 Best Books of the University of the Philippines Press Centennial Awards in 2008. Juan serves on the board of the International Forum of Playwrights of the International Theatre Institute. He is currently a tenured professor at the University of Notre Dame and director of its Department of Film, Television and Theatre.

DCT GREEN ROOM presents original works in development in a staged reading format by emerging and established playwrights. Its purpose is to provide a creative venue for playwrights to hear their work and foster a creative collaboration among artist directors and actors. Since 2005, The Green Room has presented over 100 artist playwrights, directors and actors including Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes; Laila Robins; Michael Cumpsty; Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran; Drama Desk Winner Amy Warren; Theater, Film & Television Actress Susan Misner; NEA-honoree Cassandra Medley; Maxine Kern; Jamie Richards; Jordan Beswick; Carlos Armesto; Andrew Bergh; Steven Ditmyer; Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza; Stuart Harris; Jason Tam; Cindy Cheung; Raul Aranas; Joe Byers; Robert Askins; Rona Figueroa; Linda Faigao-Hall; James McManus; Amy Hartman; Christine Toy Johnson; Kristine Reyes; Pearl Sun; Lydia Stryk; Sal Inzerillo; Rodney To; Victor Maog; May Adrales; Jessi Hill, among others.

ADMISSION IS FREE. LIMITED SEATING. "First come, first serve" seating. For more information, please contact Martha Zamirski at 646-895-9161 or rsvp[at]diversecitytheater.org.

* Member, Actors Equity Association

About Diverse City Theater Company

Diverse City Theater Company (“DCT”) develops and produces powerful and thought-provoking works that explore and examine our society’s diversity issues from social, cultural, gender and demographic perspectives; creates multiculturally fluent theater audiences; and advocates the non-traditional casting of actors to reflect the rich spectrum of our national culture and universality of the human spirit. DCT is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) theater organization based in New York.

For more information, visit the organization's website at www.diversecitytheater.org.