Columbia University School of the Arts Presents 3 Women 3/30-4/2

Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Arts Program Presents 3 Women Adapted and Directed by ANNA BRENNER

March 30-April 2, 2011

The Riverside Theatre
91 Claremont Avenue
Between 120th and 122nd Streets

$15 General Admission/$5 Seniors
FREE with Columbia University ID or any other valid student ID

Inspired by Robert Altman's critically acclaimed 1977 film, 3 Women is a dreamlike investigation of identity and obsession through the perspectives of three women working in a dusty oasis town in the California desert.

Anna Brenner and her ensemble of performers and designers reinvent Altman's paradoxical wasteland of absent love for the contemporary theater. This atmospheric, character-driven piece combines video, sound, and movement to create an uncanny world, invoking both humor and terror, to tell the story of lost souls in the process of reinvention.

Anna Brenner (Director) is a New York-based theater director. Recent work includes The Girl Who Shared His Room (Philadelphia Shakespeare), Are We Here Yet? (undergroundzero festival PS122), Bombs, Babes and Bingo (Artists Laboratory Theater), Uncanny (Littlefield), Look Away (KafkaFest), The Three Sisters (Columbia), The Misanthrope (undergroundzero 2009 Audience Award PS122), The Birds (HERE, Target Margin Lab). Anna co-curated the Stone Open House with Laurie Anderson in February and has been assisting Big Dance Theater on The Supernatural Wife, premiering in Paris this March and at BAM in Fall, 2011. Anna has interned with The Wooster Group, assisted Tina Landau at Steppenwolf, and trained with the Siti Company and, in Poland, W?odzimierz Staniewski and Gardzienice. Recipient of the Schubert Presidential Fellowship, University of Chicago Incubator Residency, Richter Grant, University of Chicago Arts Council Fellowship, and Metcalf Fellowship. In addition to directing, Anna teaches writing at Columbia University. BA University of Chicago, MFA Directing 2011 Columbia University (expected).

Tickets for events at The Riverside Theatre can be purchased online (www.ColumbiaStages.org); by phone (212.870.6784); or by visiting the box office of The Riverside Theatre. Box Office hours are Thursday-Saturday, 4-8pm; Sunday 12-4pm and 1 hour prior to all performances.

Performance Schedule: (all performances at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Sts.)

Wednesday, March 30th at 8pm
Thursday, March 31st at 8pm
Friday, April 1st at 8pm
Saturday, April 2nd at 2pm & 8pm

Columbia Stages is the producing arm of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies of Columbia University's School of the Arts. Columbia Stages presents a season of graduate actor and director productions as well as an annual festival of new plays by emerging playwrights. The theatre program offers MFA degrees in acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy, stage management, and theatre management and producing. The goal of the program 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 the theatre.

For more information, visit www.ColumbiaStages.org

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