Diverse City Theater Co. | Press Release | First National Asian American Theater Festival

For Immediate Release: May 9, 2007

Faigao-Hall's THE FEMALE HEART Returns
to Theatre Row with The First National Asian American Theater Festival

Jamie Richards Directs; Original Cast Members Tim Davis, Rona Figueroa and Victor Lirio Return to "Smokey Mountain"

Tim Davis and Rona Figueroa in Linda
Faigao-Hall's THE FEMALE HEART

NEW YORK--Diverse City Theater Company ("DCT") announces its participation in the First National Asian American Theater Festival ("NAATF") which will be presented at various locations in New York on June 11 to 24, 2007. NAATF is organized by Ma-yi Theatre, Pan Asian Repertory and National Asian American Theater Co.

DCT's acclaimed 2005 production of Linda Faigao-Hall's THE FEMALE HEART, produced in association with Ensemble Studio Theatre and directed by noted Off Broadway director Jamie Richards, will reprise the show for the festival from June 16 to June 18th, 2007 at Theatre Row's The Beckett Theatre located at 410 West 42nd Street. Tickets on-sale now at www.naatf.org.

Faigao-Hall's THE FEMALE HEART, originally commissioned by Starfish Theater Works and produced by Diverse City Theater Co., had its premiere at The Beckett Theatre in March 2005.

Paulanne Simmons of ny-theatrewire.com wrote:
"Faigao-Hall has a powerful story to tell ...
THE FEMALE HEART most successfully touches all our hearts."

The play takes place in the early 1990's and tells the story of two siblings, Anghel and Adelfa, living in the so-called "Smokey Mountain," the infamous mountain of garbage outside Manila in the Philippines. Confronted by extreme poverty and her brother's ailing health, Adelfa agrees to become a mail-order bride to Roger Golden, a man from Brooklyn who is willing to pay for Anghel's medical treatments & for a price.

The play--which features Tim Davis*, Rona Figueroa* (Broadway's MISS SAIGON, LES MISERABLES, NINE and LENNON), Victor Lirio* and Bing Magtoto--will perform on:

Saturday, June 16th at 8PM
Sunday, June 17th at 2PM and 7PM
Monday, June 18th at 8PM

To purchase tickets for THE FEMALE HEART, click here.

The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row located at 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Avenues).

* Member of Actors Equity Association

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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