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April  - May
27  14

April 27 - May 14, 2017

Thursdays - Saturdays at 7:30PM; Sundays at 2PM

 

Tickets: $20 Adults 

$15 Students/Seniors

WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCES

ten tickets are available for every performance for $10 each, advance sales only,

as part of La MaMa's 10 @ $10 ticketing initiative

 

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MARCO ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ (Man)  Actor/writer who holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University.  He has acted, written, produced and directed hits such as Pico de Gallo, Heaven Forbid(s)! (named Outstanding New Play by The Dallas/Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum) and the Southwest Premiere of Rick Najera’s Latinologues, which later moved to Broadway.  His play, La Luz De Un Cigarrillo (Ashes Of Light), received an extended by popular demand run at New York's Off-Broadway LATEA theater, Dominican Republic and Argentina. It is the recipient of 5 HOLA, 4 ACE and 3 prestigious Soberano awards, including Outstanding Achievement In Playwriting. La Luz De Un Cigarrillo (Ashes Of Light) has been published in both Spanish and English editions by NoPassport Press.  Rodriguez’s latest play, the stage adaptation of Julia Alvarez' best-selling novel, In The Name Of Salomé, is currently running at the Spanish Repertory Theater in NYC.

JUSTIN TOWNSEND (Set Design) 

 

MICHAEL MCGEE (Lighting Design) 

 

NATHAN LEIGH (Sound Design) 

 

CHRISTOPHER VERGARA (Costume Design) Recent credits: The Golem of Havana (La Mama, Miami New Drama), What Do Critics Know? (NYMTF), Uncle Tom's Cabin, Texas in Paris, Last Dance (York Theatre Company), Danza-de-Fernando (somedance company); like the eagle (DASH); Madame Butterfly, Kiss Me Kate, La Traviata, Pirates of Penzance (Brevard Music Festival); Harlequinade, Walpurgisnacht, Majisimas (Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo). Broadway assisting credits include Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center Theater), The Visit, People in the Picture (Roundabout Theatre Company), Eclipsed & the current revival of The Color Purple. As the Costume Coordinator for Les Ballets Trockadero he toured throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. He is an alumnus of The Professional Internship Program of The Juilliard School.

 

KAREN OUGHTRED (Production Manager/Stage Manager) is a teacher, theatre artist and performer. She is PSM for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, NY. Most recently she was PSM for The New School’s Fall Production, Blood Wedding, puppetry and direction by Theodora Skipitares. Currently she has co-developed an interactive memory project for seniors with Spica Wobbe to be undertaken in 2017. Other stage management includes, Hotel Savant (BAM Next Wave Festival, 2015), Carnegie Hall, Soho Rep, The Public, HERE, Town Hall, Ohio Theater, and La MaMa Moves! annual dance festival. Produced national tour of Words of Choice  (Cindy Cooper, writer). Puppetry credits, design and performance, include; IsleWilde (WA), Bumbershoot (WA), NMAI, Mary Seidman & Dancers, Dream Community (Taipei), Bread & Puppet (national and international), Chinese Theatre Works (national), puppetry artist: Spica Wobbe, Co-Curator, Voice4Vision Puppetry Festival (2011). 

 

JOHN-PAUL PELLETIER (Assistant Stage Manager)

 

STEPHEN CARMODY (Associate Set Designer)

 

DEBORAH HECHT (Vocal Coach)

MICHAEL LEON THOMAS (Movement Coach) danced principal roles with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Donald Byrd/The Group, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and Complexions Contemporary Ballet.  Movement coach work with Anna Deavere Smith for Let Me Down Easy, On Grace, Notes From the Field.  Thomas and actress Kimber Riddle have previously collaborated in their work with Anna Deavere Smith.  

 

RUBY LAVIN (Graphic Designer) is a Brooklyn/Vermont-based poster, print, and brand designer. She specializes in design for artistic institutions such as poetry or arts journals and theatrical productions.

KIMBER RIDDLE (Woman) MFA from New York University Graduate Acting Program.   NY Off Broadway: Luz (La MaMa), Mad Forest (Manhattan Theatre Club), Zero Church (St. Ann’s Warehouse), Enrico IV (NYU Director’s Lab) Regional Credits: Tranced (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), House Arrest (Mark Taper Forum), Common Infractions, Gross Injustices (American Repertory Theater), Piano (Harvard University), IACD Acting Company 1998-2000 (Harvard University, Director Anna Deavere Smith) Film: Guy, Thirty, Under The Bridge TV Credits: ABC mini-series, Stephen King’s The Langoliers, CBS mini-series Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage. Certificate: Moscow Art Theatre.  Riddle has worked with the theater artist Anna Deavere Smith, as an actress, and as an artistic associate traveling with her to collect her interviews and working on her productions. This solidified her interest in human rights theater; working with real people’s plights specifically on the subject of injustice

ELENA ARAOZ (Director) is a stage director for theater and opera. NYC productions this past season include Octavio Solís’s Prospect (Boundless Theatre Company), Dipika Guha’s Mechanics of Love (To-by-For Productions), Virginia Grise’s She-She-She (Ice Factory Festival, New Ohio Theatre), Hilary Bettis’ Alligator (New Georges and The Sol Project), and Warren Leight’s new play for The 25 Hour Plays on Broadway (American Airlines Theatre). Also this past season, Two Arms and a Noise, which she originally wrote and directed as a New York Theatre Workshop fellow and was recognized by the Latino Theatre Commons as one of "thirty-six plays and writers that everyone should know,” performed in the Bucharest International Theatre Platform in Romania. She was named The Drama League’s inaugural Beatrice Terry Resident, where she wrote Plastic Drastic, an eco-aware musical adaptation of The Odyssey, and directed for the Rose Theatre. www.elenaaraoz.com


CATHERINE FILLOUX (Playwright) is an award-winning theater artist who has been writing about human rights and social justice for twenty-five years.  Catherine is the recipient of the 2017 Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre, and received the 2015 Planet Activist Award due to her long career as an activist artist in the theater community.  Her play whatdoesfreemean? about women and mass incarceration in the U.S. will premiere in 2018, produced by Nora’s Playhouse.  Recent productions include:  Selma ‘65 which was first produced at La MaMa, and has been performed around the U.S., including at Pygmalion Productions, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City, Utah; and Luz at La MaMa, and Looking for Lilith Theatre Company in Louisville, Kentucky.  Filloux is also the librettist for three produced operas, and has been commissioned by the Vienna State Opera to write the libretto for composer Olga Neuwirth’s new opera, Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf to premiere in 2019.  www.catherinefilloux.com

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