Photo Flash: DREAM ACTS at American AF Festival at The New Ohio Theatre
By: A.A. Cristi Sep. 25, 2017
Sunday, Sept 24, at the New Ohio Theatre in Manhattan took place a reading of DREAM ACTS (written by Chiori Miyagawa, Saviana Stanescu, Andrea Thome, Jessica Litwak, and Mia Chung), directed by Saviana Stanescu, as part of the American AF pop-up festival, centralizing black, brown, queer and radical artistic/political voices.
https://americanaf.org/
The staged reading was followed by a groundbreaking panel discussion with the artists, the public, and a DREAMer.
Sergio Rodriquez, a DREAMer and activist, was the special guest on the panel.
(Sergio Rodriguez Camarena is an undocumented immigrant from Sayula, Jalisco, Mexico whose family made a new home in Santa Ana, California and he is now working at the Immigrant Justice Corps as a Community Fellow to increase access to quality legal representation in New York City)
CAST: Oghenero Gbaje, Christine Lian, Ashton Muniz, Kate Owens, and Courtney Williams. SM: Angela Griggs. Producer: Ann Marie Dorr
The panel was moderated by Saviana Stanescu, founder of Immigrant Artists and Scholars in New York.
DREAM ACTS is a play based on interviews with DREAM ACT - eligible youth, addressing their daily life struggles. Initially it was produced at HERE in 2011 and had multiple readings followed by panel discussions:
http://dreamactunion.org
With the end of DACA, the DREAMers are in a limbo situation, risking to be deported to countries they don't even remember, and the play is becoming painfully actual again.
The Cast of Dream Acts
The Cast of Dream Acts
The Cast of Dream Acts
The Cast of Dream Acts
The Cast of Dream Acts
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