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| For Immediate Release: November 28, 2006 |
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THE CHICKEN SNAKE Slithers to Diverse City Theater on Monday, December 5 at 8PM NEW YORK -- Diverse City Theater Company's ("DCT") Green Room Series 2006 ("GRS") continues its exploration of large issues in character-driven plays, this time, the largely undiscovered country of aging. Amy Hartman, one of the country's most prolific female playwrights, brings her play, THE CHICKEN SNAKE ("The Play"), to GRS on Monday, December 4th at 8PM at the New Georges located at 520 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor. Lincoln Center Director Lab's Michael Goldberg directs. 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. THE CHICKEN SNAKE tells the story of a husband's struggle to coming to terms with his wife's life-threatening disease, her eventual death and his unique ways of coping while attempting to put his children back together. In the end, he is confronted with an enormously difficult decision to make. The Play was awarded The Pittsburgh Foundation's 2005 Grant for Outstanding Achievement by an Artist. It was also selected by The Lincoln Center's Director's Lab in 2005 and received a reading at The Manhattan Theatre Club in March 2006. The Play is scheduled to premier at The Point Park Repertory Company in November 2007. Her commissioned play by The Holocaust Center, MAZEL, was just seen in a sold-out production at The Pittsburgh Jewish Theatre in November 2006. Among her most recent playwrighting awards are HALF OF ZERO, winner of the Playwright's Festival in Black and White and a finalist at the Samuel French Festival, produced by the New Group Theater and North Carolina School for the Arts; CHAUCER'S TRASH, a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award; and AMERICA'S MOST WANTED, written in workshop with Paula Vogel at the Providence Art Center, read at Edward Albee's 2004 Last Frontier Playwriting Conference in Alaska and at the Manhattan Theatre Club in January 2005. Michael F. Goldberg was Assistant Director for Rosmersholm (Oslo Elsewhere: Timothy Douglas, Director), Living Room in Africa (Edge Theater Company: Carolyn Cantor, Director), 2Lives (George Street Playhouse: David Saint, Director), Portia Coughlan (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre: Timothy Douglas, Director). Readings: Bled White by Laura Jaqcmin (Edge Theater Company), Kites by John Allen Biles. New York : Running with Scissors (ATA). Regional: Artsville, USA (Pittsburgh Premiere, GalleriE CHIZ), Baby Tooth by Laura Lind (Pittsburgh New Works Festival). Michael is a graduate of Point Park University and is a Lincoln Center Director's Lab member. 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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