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| For Immediate Release: August 15, 2006 |
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Diverse City Theater's "FOUR PLAYS" Festival to 
NEW YORK- Diverse City Theater Company ("DCT") announces its partnership with Financial Services Industry Exchange ("FSIX"), the leading global networking and professional services organization specifically for gay and lesbian financial services professionals, with a special command performance of DCT's "FOUR PLAYS: The Equality Playwrights Festival" ("EPF") on Wednesday, August 23rd at 7PM. FSIX Board Member Edward Jacobs commented: "Community partnership is one of our organization's core values. We are proud to support Diverse City Theater and its mission to promote art and awareness, diversity and multiculturalism in the theater by developing and producing content that tackle tough social issues today. Their efforts are ground-breaking." Founded in 1983 as the New York Bankers Group, FSIX is dedicated to creating a fun, friendly networking environment to foster LGBT equality in the financial services industry by partnering with major organizations and LGBT community groups. "We are very proud of this association with FSIX. Their support for DCT is testament to their leadership in the community," said actor Victor Lirio, DCT's Chief Artistic & Producing Officer. EPF is currently playing for a limited run at Theatre Row's Harold Clurman Theatre located at 410 West 42nd Street until August 26, 2006. Tickets for The Equality Playwrights Festival can be purchased by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or www.ticketcentral.com. Diverse City Theater's Equality Playwrights Festival is made possible due, in part, to the generous support from Disney Foundation's Cast Community Fund, Financial Services Industry Exchange, The Guild Family Foundation and strong commitment from CD101.9FM, D2 Studios Inc., Interep and Scharff Weisberg. Related links: |
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Diverse City Theater Company
Formed in April 2003, Diverse City Theater Company -- run by artist playwrights, directors and actors -- is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) theater developing and producing organization based in the world's most diverse city, New York. Its mission is to promote multiculturalism and diversity in the theater arts by developing and producing works that explore and examine our society’s diversity issues -- social, cultural, gender and demographic -- from a global perspective; create multiculturally fluent theater audiences; and advocate the non-traditional casting of actors to reflect the rich spectrum and diversity of our national culture. 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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