Lark Play Development Center Brings Andreea Valean To NYC 4/19

The Lark Play Development Center, in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute New York (RCI), with support from CEC Artslink, is pleased to host Romanian playwright Andreea Valean in New York, as part of its Eastern European Exchange Program. Free public readings of Valean's play DON'T CRY, WE'LL ALL MEET ON THE OTHER SIDE will be presented on April 15 & 16 at the Lark Studio; and on April 19 her play WHEN I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE will be presented at RCI.

Valean is also a producer, theatre director, and an award-winning screenwriter. She was awarded the prestigious Palm d'Or Award in 2004 at the Cannes Film Festival for the film TRAFIC and the film based on her play WHEN I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE was recently awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. This marks Valean's third visit to New York, as part of her ongoing residency.

The Lark's Eastern European Exchange Program is led by playwright Saviana Stanescu who says that, "the program is aimed at going beyond ‘cultural tourism' and allowing a true artistic dialogue to exist between the U.S. and Eastern Europe."

For more information on the public readings and the program, please visit www.larktheatre.org or www.icrny.org.

A laboratory for new voices and new ideas, the LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER provides playwrights with indispensable resources to develop their work. The Lark brings together actors, directors, playwrights and the community to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director, Michael Robertson.

The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York aims to promote Romanian culture to the public in both the US and internationally and to build sustainable connections and collaborations between American and Romanian cultural organizations. The Institute serves as a catalyst for all artistic and creative fields, and strives toward the strengthening of academic associations and the enhancement of perspectives regarding Romania and its present cultural dynamics.