DIRTY PAKI LINGERIE Presented at The Flea Theater, Now through 8/18

After sold out shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Toronto, NYC, and recently in Pakistan Dirty Paki Lingerie by Aizzah Fatima directed by Erica Gould returns to NYC at The Flea Theater for a three week run from July 31 through August 18.

Set in post 9/11 America, Dirty Paki Lingerie depicts the stories of six Pakistani-American

Muslim women in New York City ranging in age from a six year old girl to a sixty-five year old woman as they balance old world tradition with new age technology. Cross-cultural sparks fly and preconceptions about Muslim women, sex, and politics are hilariously shattered in the show The Wall Street Journal says "breaks down stereotypes of Muslim women in America" and that reviewers call a "must-see" production. Dirty Paki Lingerie transcends boundaries of culture, religion, and gender, moving and entertaining audiences with its unique and universal appeal. A rich, sexy, and infectiously entertaining mosaic of the sublime, the comic, the poetic, and the political.

Show times for this run are:

Wednesday, July 31 @ 9pm

Thursday, August 1 @ 9pm

Friday, August 2 @ 9pm

Saturday, August 3 @ 5pm & 9pm

Sunday, August 4 @ 5pm

Wednesday, August 7 @ 9pm

Thursday, August 8 @ 9pm

Friday, August 9 @ 9pm

Saturday, August 10 @ 5pm & 9pm

Sunday, August 11 @ 5pm

Wednesday, August 14 @ 9pm

Thursday, August 15 @ 9pm

Friday, August 16 @ 9pm

Saturday, August 17 @ 5pm & 9pm

Sunday, August 18 @ 5pm

The creative team features Set Design by Stephen Dobay(Our Town directed by David Cromer, The Realists directed by Ian Morgan at HERE), Lighting Design by Jonathan Cottle (Flea Resident Designer), Sound Design by Rees Shad (recording artist, audio engineer, sound designer), and Movement Direction by Natasha Chandel (Dancer/Instructor Shiamak Davar Dance Institute).

Of her inspiration playwright and performer Aizzah Fatima says, "I started writing this play after waking up one day shocked to realize that parts of the country I call home had developed virulent Islamophobic sentiment. A country that was founded on freedom of religion now had organized opposition and violent acts beings committed to prevent the building of mosques. By showing a different side of the Pakistani-American community, I wanted to show people that Muslim-Americans are not a monolith in thought or practice. ". Aizzah Fatima is teaming up with Turning Point, a domestic violence shelter for Muslim women and families for this run, and a portion of the proceeds will go to the center.

Aizzah Fatima (Actor/Playwright) is a member of The Bats, the resident Acting Company at The Flea Theater. She has performed in #serials@theflea. Other theatre credits include Circumcaedere (LABrynth Ensemble), Play by Play: Rendez-Vous (Stageworks Hudson), Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues (Abingdon Theatre, NYC), Seven by Anna Deavere Smith, Ruth Margraff, Catherine Filloux, Carol K. Mack, Paula Cizmar, Gail Kriegel, and Susan Yankowitz, (Hostos Cultural Arts Center, NYC), the interactive musical Bollywood Wedding, and Ripe for the Picking, TV credits include: The Good Wife (CBS), Patrice O'Neal's Guide to White People (Comedy Central), Food Detectives with Ted Allen (Food Network), Mata-e-jaan (HUM TV), and Cinematherapy with comedian Chuck Nice (WEtv). She also co-stars in the webseries Mumbai Chopra:Misadventures of an IT girl (www.mumbaichopra.com). Aizzah has performed at Upright Citizen's Brigade, and appeared in sketches for collegehumor.com. She recently wrote and starred in her first short film Stuff with Annette O'Toole. She is working on a screenplay based on characters from Dirty Paki Lingerie in addition to her second solo play about education in Pakistan based on her experiences touring with the US State Department in Pakistan and teaching storytelling workshops at schools and colleges. More information at www.AizzahFatima.com

Erica Gould (Director) Credits include the world premieres of Neil LaBute's plays Autobahn and Stand Up (w/ Mos Def), SpeakEasy (Joe's Pub/Public Theater), Max and the Truffle Pig (NYMF), Troilus and Cressida (NY Stage & Film),The Rover (The New School), The Comedy of Errors (Hudson Guild), The Tempest (Fordham), As You Like It(Shakespeare Theatre ACA), More Between Heaven and Earth (w/ Matthew Modine, Melissa Errico, Kathleen Chalfant), On Point: From Sword Fight to Pas de Deux w/ NYCB's Jared Angle & Megan LeCrone (SalonSanctuary/The Fire Dept), and previous incarnations of Dirty Paki Lingerie. Upcoming: her site-specific production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Erica recently had the honor of being a featured speaker, along with Rick Sordelet, for the SDCF Masters of the Stage panel on Physical Staging and Fight Direction, which will be available as a podcast through the American Theatre Wing. Teaching: Yale, NYU, Fordham, Pace, Bard, and the O'Neill National Theatre Institute.

The Flea Theater, under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include the premieres by Steven Banks, Thomas Bradshaw, Bathsheba Doran, Will Eno, Karen Finley, Amy Freed, Sean Graney, A.R. Gurney, Hamish Linklater, Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio, Itamar Moses, Anne Nelson, Qui Nguyen, Adam Rapp, Jonathan Reynolds, Roger Rosenblatt, Elizabeth Swados, and Mac Wellman. Recent successes include Drama Desk nominated She Kills Monsters, These Seven Sicknesses and Restoration Comedy.

Dirty Paki Lingerie runs from July 31 through August 18 Wed-Sat at 9pm, and Sat & Sun at 5pm. The Flea is located at 41 White Street between Church and Broadway, three blocks south of Canal, close to the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z and 1 subway lines. Regular tickets are $25, student/senior $15, and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or online at www.theflea.org.