{"id":986,"date":"2014-12-25T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T09:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/?p=986"},"modified":"2015-06-20T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T15:03:19","slug":"la-mama-umbria-celebrates-new-york-3-and-4-january-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"La MaMa Umbria Celebrates &#8211; New York 3 and 4 January 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"panel-21000-0-0-1\" class=\"panel widget widget_headline-widget\" style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<h1 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lamamaumbria-celebrates2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lamamaumbria-celebrates2015-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"lamamaumbria celebrates2015\" width=\"393\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lamamaumbria-celebrates2015-300x100.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lamamaumbria-celebrates2015-1024x341.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lamamaumbria.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lamamaumbria-celebrates2015.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: center;\">READINGS OF THE PLAYS CREATED AT LA MAMA UMBRIA PLAYWRIGHTS RETREAT 2014.<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: center;\"><strong>Saturday &amp; Sunday, January 3 &amp; 4, 2015<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"panel-21000-0-0-2\" class=\"panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce\" style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Readings of new plays by playwrights who honed their craft at the La MaMa Umbria International Playwright Retreats (2014). Meet extraordinary writers from: \u00a0The US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Korea and Italy. Each evening, you will hear portions of their plays that are in development, accompanied by aperitivo and a taste of Umbrian delicacies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\">FEATURED PLAYWRIGHTS: Patricia Davis, Rachel Greenhoe, Everett Irving, Tom Mikotowicz, Mariem Omari, Susan Jennifer Polese, Roderic Wachovskye &amp; Jade Wu.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511910\">Saturday, January 3, 2015<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511911\">12pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">A Screenplay by Everett Irving<\/strong>, with talkback<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511912\">2:30pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">After the Blood<\/em><\/strong>, A Play by Patricia Davis, with talkback.\u00a0Cast: Emily Morrison, Hend Ayoub, John Morogiello.\u00a0Director: Catherine Aselford<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511913\">4pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Suicide by Wife<\/em><\/strong>, A Play by Susan Jennifer Polese, with talkback.\u00a0Cast: Michelle Concha Herko, Femi Alao, Dan Kausch.\u00a0Director and Stage Directions: Michael Toscano<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511914\">5:30pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">2752<\/em><\/strong>, A full length solo performance by Jade Wu.\u00a0Director: Benjamin Kamine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511915\">Sunday, January 4, 2015<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511916\">12pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The Duke of Saddle River<\/em><\/strong>, a play by Tom Mikotowicz<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511917\">2pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Staring out of Windows<\/em><\/strong>, A One-Woman Play written and performed by Mariem Omari, with talkback.\u00a0Director: Maria Oller.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511918\">4pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Tangled<\/em><\/strong>, A Play in Two Acts by Roderic Wachovsky, with talkback.\u00a0Cast: David Diamond, Kate Warren, Angello Pizarro, Nathaniel Peart.\u00a0Director: Roderic Wachovsky.\u00a0Stage Directions: Susan Jennifer Polese<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;\" data-term=\"goog_293511919\">6:15pm<\/span>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">A Play by Rachel Greenhoe<\/strong>, with talkback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"panel-21000-0-0-3\" class=\"panel widget widget_headline-widget\" style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<h1 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: center;\">FESTA DELLA BEFANA<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: center;\"><strong>Saturday, January 3 at 7pm<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"panel-21000-0-0-4\" class=\"panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce\" style=\"color: #666666;\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Enjoy authentic Umbrian food and wine, live music and gifts from the Italian traditional Befana celebration. Meet La MaMa Umbria family, artists, colleagues and new friends. Discover the new program for the summer 2015 in Spoleto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;\"><em>Entrance with wine and Umbrian specialties: $20 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/web.ovationtix.com\/trs\/pr\/942226\" target=\"_blank\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.ovationtix.com\/trs\/pr\/942226\" target=\"_blank\">Buy party tickets &#8211;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\"><b>Art and culture in and from Spoleto.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">Celebrate with us and learn about La MaMa Umbria, our summer artists program in Spoleto, Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666; text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8221; Time, space, and support: with those, any playwright can be brilliant\u2014at least a good bit more brilliant than without. La MaMa Umbria, a retreat in the Italian countryside, strikes a perfect balance between these elements. Outside your window, a flower box packed with geraniums, a valley dotted with olive trees. Sheep. A broad swath of sky that stretches across the valley and becomes a swirl of lavender at dusk. All you have to do, for ten days, is look at beauty and create. If you need to talk your ideas through, you have a teacher available, ready to listen and help. If you want to hear your pages read aloud, supportive comrades will oblige, then drink wine with you at night to a chorus of crickets and cicadas, the only loud nightlife around. La MaMa Umbria houses directors, playwrights, and actors for symposia and retreats in an abandoned convent, bought and renovated by La MaMa founder Ellen Stewart after she won the MacArthur Genius Grant. I was at the playwrights retreat this past August, which focused on theater for social change and community engagement.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><em><a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #666666;\" href=\"http:\/\/howlround.com\/la-mama-umbria-an-italian-retreat\">&#8211; Patricia Davis, HowlRound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666;\">For more information about the La MaMa Umbria program, contact:\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #666666;\" href=\"mailto:lamamaumbria@hotmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">lamamaumbria@hotmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit; color: #666666;\" href=\"mailto:ddjdstar@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">ddjdstar@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0(program director David Diamond)<\/p>\n<div id=\"panel-21000-0-0-8\" class=\"panel widget widget_headline-widget\">\n<h3 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: center;\"><strong>Sponsors<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"panel-21000-0-0-9\" class=\"panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce\">\n<div class=\"textwidget\" style=\"font-style: inherit;\">\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21022 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lamama.org\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/umbria-celebrates-sponsor-logos.jpg\" alt=\"umbria celebrates sponsor logos\" width=\"800\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"panel-21000-0-0-10\" class=\"panel widget widget_headline-widget\">\n<h1 style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\">ABOUT THE ARTISTS<\/h1>\n<p class=\"decoration\" style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Patricia Davis<\/strong>\u00a0writes nonfiction, poetry, and plays. Her full-length drama,\u00a0<em>Alternative Methods<\/em>, was\u00a0produced in the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, winning a Pick of the Fringe recommendation from\u00a0<em>New York Theater Review<\/em>\u00a0and a Best Director award. It was selected for readings at Urban Stages,\u00a0Georgia\u00a0College\u00a0and\u00a0State\u00a0University,\u00a0Catholic\u00a0University, in collaboration with Theater J, and the Beltway Drama Series.\u00a0Her short play,\u00a0<em>Cleared<\/em>, was selected for presentation in the\u00a0Kennedy\u00a0Center\u2019s 2013 Page-to-Stage Festival. She co-authored a nonfiction book,\u00a0<em>The Blindfold\u2019s Eyes<\/em>, and has published articles in\u00a0<em>The Nation<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Counterpunch,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Common Dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"decoration\" style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Rachel Greenhoe<\/strong>\u00a0is a playwright and performer currently based in Brooklyn. She is the winner of the 2013 David Lindsay-Abaire Award for Playwriting. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College under Lucy Thurber, Start Spencer, and Cassandra Medley, and HB Studios under Donna DiMatteo. She also attended the La Mama writer\u2019s retreat in Umbria in 2012. Her plays have been produced at Downtown art, Churchill school, Sarah Lawrence, and The Manhattan Rep, with readings at La MaMa and Sarah Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"decoration\" style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Tom Mikotowicz<\/strong>\u00a0teaches directing, playwriting, history, and performance studies at the University of Maine. A professor of theatre, he received his doctorate from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. As a director, Dr. Mikotowicz has staged hundreds of productions in professional, educational, and community theatres throughout the country, and he has acted in several major productions.<em>\u00a0<\/em>He\u00a0has also written and directed industrial videos for NYU and NBC television, a children\u2019s play, and other works.\u00a0 Also,\u00a0Dr. Mikotowicz has published extensively, with his academic writings appearing both in the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"decoration\" style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Mariem Omari<\/strong>\u00a0studied Drama at the Australian National University. In 2007 she left to the Middle East to become an Australian Volunteer where she worked for five years as a humanitarian focusing on violations of human rights. Prior to leaving Australia, Mariem performed in a number of productions including\u00a0<em>Macbeth<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Servant of Two Masters<\/em>\u00a0and<em>The Garrison<\/em>. She worked for International Master Puppeteer, Peter Wilson, on productions\u00a0<em>Wake Baby<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Love Suicides<\/em>. Mariem is a Writer\u2019s Associate for The Street Theatre\u2019s<em>HIVE\u00a0<\/em>Programme in Australia, and is currently commissioned to write five short plays for production in the UK in 2015. Her one woman show,\u00a0<em>Staring out of Windows<\/em>, was developed at LaMaMa\u2019s 2014 International Playwrights Retreat.\u00a0Special thanks to Dramaturg, Peter Matheson for his guidance and grounding presence and Catherine Filloux for her generous advice and attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"decoration\" style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Susan Jennifer Polese<\/strong>\u00a0has been produced Off-Broadway and regionally and her play\u00a0<em>Under The One-Time Sky\u00a0<\/em>was selected as a finalist for Best Play in the 4<span style=\"font-style: inherit;\">th<\/span>\u00a0Annual Aery Theatre Company 20\/20 One-Act Competition. Susan has studied playwriting at The Wonderhorse Theatre, Herbert Berghof Studio, and Hunter College.\u00a0 She&#8217;s taught playwriting to children through Purchase College, and has been a member of and taught with Axial Theatre Company.\u00a0 \u201cSuicide Wife\u201d was developed at La MaMa Umbria International Playwright Retreat 2014. Susan is a member of the Dramatists Guild. I would like to recognize and thank all of the people who are ceaseless working toward understanding and ending interpersonal violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"decoration\" style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Roderic Wachovsky<\/strong>\u00a0Theater B.A. Playwriting Thesis, Loften Mitchell, advisor, The State University of New York at Binghamton. Graduate Seminar Playwriting, Tina Howe, Hunter College. Theater Lab West, actor, writer, Denver, CO.\u00a0 \u201cHanako Junction\u201d, Equity Showcase, Gene Frankel Theater, NYC, April, 2011. \u201cMud Men\u201d Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, Dan O\u2019Brien, playwright advisor, July, 2013.\u00a0 \u201cThe Prospective Valet\u201d Mid-Winter Short Play Lab, NYC Nov. 2013.\u00a0 \u201cDearest Jeremy\u201d short play, part of \u201cPeep Show\u201d Shelter Theater NYC, March 2014. \u201cSinners\u201d Independent Film, character, \u201cIvan Gornisovich\u201d, Martin Riofrio, screenwriter, director, June 2014.\u00a0 LaMaMa Umbria Playwrights Retreat,\u00a0 Catherine Filloux, playwright, advisor, August 2014 .\u00a0 Many thanks to Catherine, David Diamond, Mia Yoo, Andrea Paciotto, LaMaMa Umbria\/NYC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"decoration\" style=\"font-style: inherit; text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit;\">Jade Wu<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning int&#8217;l artist who has performed at Sundance to Adelaide to Edinburgh where she landed a Best Actress nod for Medea. On stage, in film and tv, she has worked alongside icons Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Tony Kushner, George C. Wolfe, JoAnne Akalaitis, Blanka Zizka, Wendy Goldberg, Gerald Gutierrez, Alan Schneider, Leslie Lee, James Spader, David Strathairn and Blythe Danner. She&#8217;s held fellowships in Disney\/ABC Writing, Jerome Media Artist, Film\/Video Arts Documentary, and was a PEN USA Rosenthal Emerging Writers Finalist. Her screenplay\u00a0<em>Ersatz\u00a0<\/em>was a BlueCat Int&#8217;l Screenplay Semi-finalist<em>.<\/em>\u00a0Her stage plays,\u00a0<em>mourning after, Jackson Heights, and Not Now Sisyphus<\/em>have been read nationwide.\u00a0<em>In Search of Golden Phoenix,\u00a0<\/em>her debut feature doc film, was an official selection at IFP and the Sundance Producers Lab. In May 2014, her solo short play<em>Memes in the Membrane<\/em>\u00a0previewed at The Marsh\/Berkeley with CSUEB&#8217;s Mental Health Project, then a full-length solo script,\u00a0<em>2752<\/em>, evolved at La MaMa Umbria Int&#8217;l. Member of SAG, AFTRA, AEA, WGA, Authors Guild and AARP. (<a style=\"font-style: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jadewu-artist.com\/\">www.jadewu-artist.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>READINGS OF THE PLAYS CREATED AT LA MAMA UMBRIA PLAYWRIGHTS RETREAT 2014. Saturday &amp; Sunday, January 3 &amp; 4, 2015 Readings of new plays by playwrights who honed their craft at the La MaMa Umbria International Playwright Retreats (2014). 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