Columbia Stages Presents Euripides' MEDEA Running 1/28-1/31

Columbia Stages presents Euripides' MEDEA, translated by Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer and directed by Alicia Dhyana House, running January 28th - 31st, 2009, at The Riverside Theatre, located in the historic Riverside Church at 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets.

Victim of a man's world. Child butcher. Refugee. Lover. Monster. Behind the 2000 year-old myth of jealousy and revenge, there was once a real person. Discover MEDEA.

The company of 17 features: Jessica Bates, David Elyha, Arthur French, Jillian Lynn Johnson, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Jason Martin, Asher Muldoon, Joy Notoma, Anjili J. Pal, Janet Prince, Monica Santana, Alexis Savino, J. H. Smith III, Michael Tommer, Tai Verley, Emily Ward, and Lucy York.

Tickets for MEDEA can be purchased online at www.ColumbiaStages.com, by calling 212.870.6784, or by visiting the box office at The Riverside Theatre. Box office hours are Thursday - Saturday, 4:00PM - 8:00PM and Sunday noon - 4:00PM, as well as one hour prior to performances. All seating is general admission.

The show plays one week only with evening performances Wednesday - Saturday, January 28th - 31st at 8:00PM and one matinee performance Saturday, January 31st at 2:00PM.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Wednesday, January 28th at 8:00PM
Thursday, January 29th at 8:00PM
Friday, January 30th at 8:00PM
Saturday, January 31st at 2:00PM
Saturday, January 31st at 8:00PM

The creative team also includes: set designer Ji-Youn Chang; lighting designer Joe Novak; sound designer/composer Amy Altadonna; costume designer Lara de Bruijn; dramaturg Rachael Rayment; choreographer Banaue Miclat; and assistant director Sarah Michelson.

ALICIA DHYANA HOUSE (Director) received her B.A. from San Francisco State University and is currently an M.F.A. candidate in directing at Columbia University. Ms. House is the recipient of the Richard Rodgers Fellowship and the Rose Biller Scholarship; and in 2008, she received a Kennedy Center Directing Fellowship to participate in a director/designer intensive with Ming Cho Lee. Assistant directing work includes: Sir Peter Shaffer's Equus, directed by Thea Sharrock for Broadway and Charles Mee's Under Construction, directed by Anne Bogart, at the Humana Festival (ATL) this spring.

Her work has been seen at HERE, Martin Segal Theatre, The Looking Glass Theatre, International Theatre Festival in Italy, American Theater of Actors, Atlantic Stage 2, and South Oxford Space. At Columbia University Ms. House directed Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, and The Past is Today But Further Off (site-specific). Recently Ms. House's production of Nick Mwaluko's Mwena was part of Culture Project's Women Center Stage 2008 where she was selected as one of four emerging female directors.

From 2001-2006, Ms. House was the Humanities Manager in the Department of Education and Humanities at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). While there, she curated many programs, such as Spoken Word: Expression in the Right Direction at BAM Harvey Theater for thousands of NYC teens. Ms. House has taught theatre at Barnard College, Whittier College, and in Asia at People's Theatre Festival Society and The Arts with the Disabled Association (Hong Kong), the Stone Commune Theatre Company (Macau, China), and at Thammasat University (Thailand).

COLUMBIA STAGES (Producer) is the producing arm of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies of Columbia University's School of the Arts. Columbia Stages annually presents a season of graduate actor and director productions as well as a festival of new plays by emerging playwrights. The theatre division offers M.F.A. degrees in acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, stage management, and theatre management and producing. The goal of the division is to provide each student with the foundation for a career in professional theatre as well as the tools to embrace an ever-changing theatrical landscape and shape the future of theatre.

This production is made possible by special arrangement with Oxford University Press, Inc.

www.ColumbiaStages.com