LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS
Latest News on LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS:
Review Roundup: Pulitzer Prize-Winner BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Opens On Broadway (Dec 19, 2022)
Photo Flash: First Look at Bill Heck, Sue Jean Kim, and More in WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Jan 2, 2013)
Complete Cast Announced for WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at Second Stage: Frankie Faison, Liza Colon-Zayas and More (Oct 18, 2012)
Review Roundup: Pulitzer Prize-Winner BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Opens On Broadway (Dec 19, 2022)
Photo Flash: First Look at Bill Heck, Sue Jean Kim, and More in WATER BY THE SPOONFUL (Jan 2, 2013)
Complete Cast Announced for WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at Second Stage: Frankie Faison, Liza Colon-Zayas and More (Oct 18, 2012)
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LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS returns to Second Stage Theatre where she appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful (HOLA award for Best Featured Actress) and Living Out (Lucille Lortel Award nomination).She has been a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City since 1992 and the Sundance Theater Ensemble 2012. She appeared in Stephen Adly Guirgis plays including In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings; Our Lady of 121st Street; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; and The Little Flower of East Orange, all directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Liza toured Europe with director Peter Sellars in Story of a Soldier and later in Othello as Emilia, opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. She starred in Athol Fugard’s latest play Have You Seen Us? opposite Sam Waterston and received a Connecticut Critics Circle Nomination. Her solo show, Sistah Supreme, had a summerlong run at the First Hip-Hop Theater Festival, produced by world renowned performance artist Danny Hoch and directed/developed by playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. Some screen credits include “Louie†(FX), “Hung†(HBO), “Dexter†(Showtime), “How to Make It in America†(HBO), “Nurse Jackie†(Showtime), “Taking Chance†(HBO), “House†(FOX), “Law and Order,†“Law and Order: SVU†(NBC).
LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS News
Review Roundup: Pulitzer Prize-Winner BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Opens On Broadway
The Broadway debut production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Between Riverside and Crazy opens tonight, directed by Austin Pendleton and starring Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winner Common. Read the reviews!
Photo Flash: First Look at Bill Heck, Sue Jean Kim, and More in WATER BY THE SPOONFUL
Second Stage Theatre presents the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, written by Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Davis McCallum. The company features LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS (Second Stage's Living Out, Our Lady of 121st Street), Frankie R. Faison (The Wire, Tony nominee for Fences), Zabryna Guevara (Chimichangas and Zoloft, Taper's Burn This), Bill Heck (Angels in America), Sue Jean Kim (Assistance, The Hallway Trilogy), and Armando Riesco (Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue). Check out a first look of the cast in action below!
Complete Cast Announced for WATER BY THE SPOONFUL at Second Stage: Frankie Faison, Liza Colon-Zayas and More
Second Stage Theatre has announced the casting for its upcoming production of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, written by Quiara Alegria Hudes, directed by Davis McCallum. The company will feature LIZA COLÓN-ZAYAS (Second Stage's Living Out, Our Lady of 121st Street), FRANKIE R. FAISON (The Wire, Tony nominee for Fences), ZABRYNA GUEVARA (Chimichangas and Zoloft, Taper's Burn This), BILL HECK (Angels in America), SUE JEAN KIM (Assistance, The Hallway Trilogy), and ARMANDO RIESCO (Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue).
Photo Flash: 'Little Flower of East Orange' Opens 4/6
LAByrinth Theater Company (Artistic Director John Ortiz; Co-Artistic Director Philip Seymour Hoffman; Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director John Gould Rubin) and The Public Theater (Artistic Director Oskar Eustis; Executive Director Mara Manus) have joined forces again to reunite the powerhouse writer/director team behind such groundbreaking urban dramas as The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train. Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis and Director Philip Seymour Hoffman have partnered on the world premiere of The Little Flower of East Orange, an inter-generational ghost story set in an upper Manhattan charity hospital, beginning previews on Tuesday, March 18.
The cast for The Little Flower of East Orange will include Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream), Elizabeth Canavan (LAByrinth's Jesus Hopped The A Train), Liza Colón-Zayas (LAByrinth's A View From 151st Street), Arthur French (Dividing the Estate at Primary Stages), Gillian Jacobs (A Feminine Ending at Playwrights Horizons), Ajay Naidu (Office Space), Howie Seago (Peter Sellars' Ajax), Michael Shannon (Tracy Letts' Bug), Sidney Williams ('The Sopranos'), and David Zayas ('Dexter').
The Little Flower of East Orange will run through Sunday, April 20 with an official press opening on Sunday, April 6 at 7 PM. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting www.publictheater.org.
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