NEW YORK--Diverse City Theater Company (DCT) announces the presentation of its "First Draft" Fellowship ("FDF") playwright fellow, Kristine Reyes, and her new play, QUEEN FOR A DAY. The presentation--in a staged reading format--will be held on Monday, February 27th at 6:30PM at Kalayaan Hall, 556 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor. Andrew Eisenman directs.

The "First Draft" Fellowship program is DCT's commitment to developing emerging playwrights and new works. Launched in 2005, the 10-week fellowship program offers beginner playwrights the opportunity to learn the basic elements of a play's dramatic structure--plot, characters, conflict and dramatic language--and its organic relationship to theme. In her play, QUEEN FOR A DAY, playwright fellow Kristine Reyes tackles a young girl's rite of passage into adulthood brought about by the death and dying of a beloved aunt, exploring the profound changes that affect her relationship with her own mother and her extended family.

Kristine Reyes is DCT's first FDF playwright fellow. She has been involved in the theater for many years performing diverse production responsibilities and has worked with theater companies such as Imua! Theatre, Ma-yi Theatre and Mr. Miyagi Theatre Company. She assisted director Jamie Richards in DCT's production of The Female Heart in 2005. In the past year, Reyes has completed playwriting workshops at Ensemble Studio Theatre with Curt Dempster and Romulus Linney. QUEEN FOR A DAY is her first full-length play. Its first draft was developed under DCT's FDF program.

QUEEN FOR A DAY's reading will feature Liz Casasola*, Mia Katigbak*, Luz Lor*, Banaue Miclat and Nicholas Stannard*

* Member of Actors Equity Association

The cast of Kristine Reyes's QUEEN FOR A DAY directed by Andrew Eisenman
Banaue Miclat, Liz Casasola, Mia Katigbak, Nicholas Stannard and Luz Lor

ABOUT DIVERSE CITY THEATER CO.:
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 in the theater arts. Its mission is to commission, develop and produce original plays that explore and examine diversity issues in our national culture 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:
Linda Faigao-Hall
kalayaan48@aol.com
917-302-2346