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| For Immediate Release: November 15, 2006 |
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Diverse
City Theater Presents Lydia Stryk's NEW YORK -- Diverse City Theater Company ("DCT") announces a reading presentation of Lydia Stryk's play, "American Tet" directed by Lucie Tiberghien, as part of its Green Room Series ("GRS") 2006, on Monday, November 20th at 7PM at the New Georges located at 520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, in New York City. Launched in 2005, GRS is DCT's annual reading festival of new works that tackle cultural diversity by emerging playwrights. Recipient of the Disney Foundation's Cast Community Fund Award and the Irvin Stern Foundation Grant, DCT is a non-profit theater developing and producing organization based in New York City and the producer of the acclaimed festival of one-acts at Theatre Row, FOUR PLAYS: The Equality Playwrights Festival, in August 2006. AMERICAN TET enters directly into the lives of a military family living through these times to look at the battlefield on the home front. ELAINE KROMBACHER, a career military wife, teaches voluntary classes on life as a military spouse. And then her world collapses. Lydia Stryk's plays include MONTE CARLO, LADY LAY, her 'House Trilogy' :THE HOUSE OF LILY, THE GLAMOUR HOUSE, and SAFE HOUSE and most recently, ON CLARION, AMERICAN TET and GHOST MALL. Her work has been seen at festivals and in reading series around the country and in Europe, and produced at, among others, Denver Center Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Alaska, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Victory Gardens, HB Studios, New York, The Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and in Germany at Schauspiel Essen and Theaterhaus Stuttgart. She has been commissioned by Pittsburgh Public Theatre and Geva Theatre, Rochester and is the recipient of a Berrilla Kerr Playwright Award. She holds a doctorate in Theatre from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a member of PEN American Center. Director Lucie Tiberghien's production of A Small Melodramatic Story recently played at the Public Theater, produced by the Labyrinth. Recent directing credits include the world premiere of Richard Dresser's Augusta, (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV) Air Conditioning (Tommy Smith, Juilliard), Hoodoo Love, (Katori Hall, Cherry Lane), The Pavilion, (Craig Wright, Rattlestick and CATF), The Winning Streak (Lee Blessing, The George Street Playhouse), Quand j'avais cinq ans je m'ai tué (Howard Buten, Théâtre Jean Vilar, Paris), Flag Day (Lee Blessing , CATF), Only the end of the world, (Jean Luc Lagarce, Directors Company), The Last Schwartz (Deborah Laufer, CATF), The Death of Frank, Through Fred and Finally (Stephen Belber). Last summer she went to the Sundance Theater Lab to work on Geometry of Fire, also by Belber. AMERICAN TET will feature Kathryn Rossetter, David Newer, Kaci Gober, Matt Unger, Ako, Quincy Tyler Berstine. Suggested donation: $10. |
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Diverse City Theater Company
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 and multiculturalism 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. |
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