The Playwrights, Directors and Actors of Diverse City Theater's "Green Room Series" Short One-Acts
(missing from photo: Deepti Gupta, Nancy Rogers, Susan Tammany, Mark Plesent and Joe Byers)

NEW YORK—Diverse City Theater Company (DCT) announces “The Equality Playwrights,” a presentation of short one-act plays as part of the company’s Green Room Series. DCT will present the works on Monday, September 12, 2005, 7PM, at Ensemble Studio Theatre, 549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor (between 10th & 11th Avenues). The Green Room Series is DCT’s summer festival of staged readings featuring original plays that portray social diversity from various cultural perspectives.

This year's crop includes:

• Susan Tammany's monologue ARIA I, a confessional portrait of a wheelchair-bound woman who refuses to be defined by her disability, directed by Triangle Theater’s Nancy Rogers and featuring Deepti Gupta*

• Stuart Harris's COLLEEN IRELAND, a gentle comedy about being old and Irish, directed by Lee Errickson and featuring Shirley Bodtke* and Danielle Savin*

• Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza's HOW TO COOK ADOBO, a cultural comedy about being young and Filipino, directed by Victor Lirio and featuring Liz Casasola*, Lydia Gaston*, Bing Magtoto and Benjamin Schmoll

• Joe Byer's aptly called I AM JOE'S PROSTATE, an edgy comedy about two young men talking about their prostates, directed by The Working Theater’s Mark Plesent and featuring Nicholas Blue and Randy Falcon*

• Lee Errickson's FINDING THE MANGO, a quirky piece about a struggling gallery owner and her savior Mexican employee, directed by KEF Productions’ Adam Fitzgerald and featuring Allison Easter* and Andrew Eisenman*

• And finally, an abstract play about abortion in Linda Faigao-Hall’s THE A-WORD directed by Lee Errickson and featuring Victor Lirio* and Kathryn Rossetter*

* member of Actors Equity Association

DCT will commission the featured playwrights to write for its first Equality Theater Festival in summer 2006 which will present one-act plays on gay issues, particularly those pertaining to gay family issues. Most of the actors featured in DCT’s Green Room Series were actors in-residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Summer Conference 2005.

The Green Room Series opened with two award-winning full length pieces in August: Linda Faigao-Hall’s NEA-honored play, “Walking Iron,” directed by Jamie Richards; and Australian playwright Michael Gurr’s award-winning suspense drama, “Sex Diary of an Infidel,” directed by Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran. The third and final full-length piece will feature Warren Bodow’s “Harry the Hunk on His Way Out,” on Monday, September 26th at 7PM also at Ensemble Studio Theatre. The reading of Dr. Anton Juan’s “The Princess of the Lizard Moon” has been postponed and a new date will be later announced.

The Green Room Series was made possible due, in part, to the generous support of The Irvin Stern Foundation and our partners at The Ensemble Studio Theatre. For reservations, please contact Natasha Marco at natasha@diversecitytheater.org. Suggested donation: $10.

ABOUT DIVERSE CITY THEATER CO.:
Diverse City Theater Co. Inc., is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization that focuses on promoting diversity in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce original plays that portray social, cultural, lifestyle and demographic diversity, thereby creating multiculturally fluent theater audiences as well as 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.

Contact:
Natasha Marco
917-476-2568
natasha@diversecitytheater.org