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Equality Playwrights Festival

Recipient of the Disney Foundation's Cast Community Fund Award, DCT presents "FOURPLAYS" -- the debut of THE EQUALITY PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL: A Festival of One Act Plays on Gender Identity Issues of the 21st Century. It will feature commissioned original works by playwrights Robert Askins, Joe Byers, Stuart Harris, and Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza, produced by DCT Associate Artistic, Linda Faigao-Hall, and curated by EPF Resident Dramaturg, Maxine Kern. The festival opens on August 11th, 2006 at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre and will run through August 26th. For tickets, contact Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or www.ticketcentral.com.

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All four plays were commissioned by DCT as part of its annual mission to develop plays that revolve around one diversity issue of cultural significance. Linda Faigao-Hall's WALKING IRON, a play about a construction worker who outs himself in the worksite, will conclude the festival in 2007.



Clean Living Veils Cold Flesh Onna Field

Set in an Army barracks, two men Norm and Al try to uncover George's sexuality but Clever George will not tell, and Norm and Al can't ask.

A play bout an American soldier in a war-torn Middle-Eastern country and his first sexual encounter with a local woman.

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Taleon-Sonza's play follows a newly-emigrated Filipino woman investigating significant people in her late husband's life in America to reconstruct the man she knew versus the man he has supposedly become.

A play about a top student and artist at Sidehill Boys School in West Omaha whose F in gym threatens to prevent him from being admitted to a topnotch design school in Chicago.

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THE EQUALITY PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL COMPANY

Steve Buck Liz Casasola Michael Early Randy Falcon
Stephen Buck Liz Casasola* Michael Early* Randy Falcon

Christopher Kromer Victor Lirio Natasha Marco David Newer Adam Schneider
Christopher Kromer Victor Lirio* Natasha Marco+ David Newer* Adam Schneider

* Appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association
+Member of Canadian Actors Equity Association

Associate Producer: Derek Chatrakul, Debra Derr
Technical Director: Aron Deyo
Set Design: Brian Ireland
Lighting Design: Ryan Mueller
Sound Design: Betsy Rhodes
Costume Design: Rahnel Romasanta
Fight Director: Craig Rising
Production Stage Manager: Chandra LaViolette
Assistant Stage Manager: Justin C. Hall
Production Assistant: Stefanie Zanetti
Creative Director: David Derr, www.d2studios.com