A test subject is pushed to the edge during a new experiment.
playwright mentor: Mike Batistick
CL Byrd is from High Point, North Carolina. He’s been involved with various aspects of theater since high school. He received his Associate in Arts from Guilford Technical Community College. His plays have been performed in the United States, and internationally in South Africa, Australia, and Costa Rica.Reality begins to fracture when high school student Alice Carney begins an AP Psychology project on homicidal sleepwalking. A feminist study in dissociation, portraiture, and the latent power of the supine woman.
playwright mentor: Dominic Finocchiaro
Before chaos ensues, Jose Morel is just a 14-year-old boy, living with his family and his twin brother Menachem in 1940s Turkey. But in just one day, his life is uprooted, and he is thrown into a journey that most wouldn’t experience in several lifetimes. Over the course of almost 90 years, Jose lives five lives in one across the world, from Turkey to Israel, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Miami. This play follows his soul through death, marriage, separation, battle, heartbreak, and everything in between.
featuring
Ido Gal
Jason Liebman
Karen Macarah
Leemore Malka
Victoria Tamez
Andrew Frommer
Maya Shoham
Roni Gayer
Michelle Miller
Danelle Eliav
of Echo Theater’s NYPR Program. More at www.elianapipes.com.
The year is 1970. Sterling and Betsy, Harlem royalties, find themselves in Istanbul, Turkey for Betsy’s cabaret tour. When the two venture to the unknown parts of Istanbul,they encounter Tanju, a male belly dancer by night and fortune teller by day, and their lives are changed forever. Through the lens of the 1971 and 1980 Turkish military coups, “Where Angels Fear to Tread” grapples with the impossibility of a love story between two people who come from two different countries that are under their own civil pressures, and the troublesome consequences of exoticizing the Middle East.
playwright mentor: Boni Alvarez
Xavier (he/him/his) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist, born and raised in Turkey. As a playwright, his full-length plays include: merry merry merry merry, supper, retrofit(s) (2020 O’Neill Center NPC Semi-Finalist, 2019 Mitten Lab Finalist, The Lark 2019 Playwrights’ Week Finalist) and backstroke boys (New Harmony Project 2020 Spring Conference Finalist, 2019 Theatre Viscera Queer Playwriting Contest Finalist). He has worked at many theaters across the country in various capacities including: Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Civilians and more. He earned his B.F.A. from NYU Tisch and his M.F.A. from UC San Diego, where he was mentored in playwriting by Allan Havis and Deborah Stein. h the 2018 Furnace Festival at The Center at West Park, and has since earned her one of six spots as a 2019 National Young Playwright in Residence. She is currently a senior at Columbia University majoring in Creative Writing and Drama and Theatre Arts, with concentrations in fiction, poetry, and acting. (www.vivianapradonunez.com)Agnes follows Claudia, a Mexican-American woman who lives in San Diego. On her 30th birthday, she encounters her past when 15 years old Agnes shows up at her door, claiming to be Claudia’s daughter. The play goes back and forth from the past to the present, taking place in both Claudia’s quinceañera and her 30-year-old birthday. It is by interacting with Agnes that Claudia relives her past trauma and learns to deal with her mental health and heal.
playwright mentor- Chiara Atik
