LIBERTY'S DAUGHTERS at Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Dates: 6/23/2020
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In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month:Immigrant/International Artists and Scholars in New York (IASNY)Honor Roll! (Women+ Playwrights 40+)Nuyorican Poets Caf invite you to an evening of IMMIGRANT WOMENS MONOLOGUESat the virtual Nuyorican Poets Caf LIVE-STREAM on ZOOM - June 23, at 8 pm FREEhttps://www.nuyorican.orgIMMIGRANT WOMENS MONOLOGUESwritten by 14 fabulous women playwrights/artists who will present their own work: (evening hosted by Saviana Stanescu and Yvette Heyliger) LIZ AMADIO (Producer/Playwright/Director/Actor/Photographer) Artistic Director, Cosmic Orchid. Moderator/Producer DAPLab (2008 -2018) MFA, Actors Studio Drama School. Member: DG, LPTW & NLAPW. ALICE EVE COHEN is a playwright and solo theatre artist. Winner of the 2019 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, her plays have been presented internationally, and her memoir received the Elle Literary Grand Prize & Oprah magazines 25 Best Books of Summer. Alice teaches at The New School and at Augsburg Universitys MFA Program. CECILIA COPELAND Member writer NYWIFT, Indie Theatre Hall of Fame, Best Drama Screenplay Female Eye Film Festival, Best TV Pilot NYWIFT New Works Lab. (Cecilias monologue will be read by Romy Nordlinger. Romy is an actor/playwright and audiobook narrator residing in NYC. TV credits include Guest and Co-starring roles on Bull, FBI and Law & Order SVU. www.romynordlinger.com) JENNA CHRISPHONTE is a Haitian-American writer whose work includes Talc: A Haitian Zombie Story, the Rule in Shelly's Case and Marielle: A Musical on the life on assassinated Brazilian human rights leader Marielle Franco. Chrisphonte also serves as director of community engagement at the Dramatists Guild of America. MINITA GANDHI is a critically acclaimed writer/actress/activist born in Mumbai, India. Her solo play Muthaland was nominated for 2 Joseph Jefferson Awards in 2018, and has played nationally. TV credits include: Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Brown Girls, How to Get Away with Murder. DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN Award-winning Playwright/Lyricist. Presentations: Manhattan Theatre Club, Cherry Lane, Womens Project, York, Theatre80, New Dramatists, BMI, Acorn, Lark, Neighborhood Playhouse, Ellis/Liberty Islands, the UN, etc. www.danalesliegoldstein.com YVETTE HEYLIGER Playwright, producing artist and citizen-artist, Yvette has worked on voter registration, gun violence, immigration, parity for women artists and #MeToo movement; Dramatists Guild NYC Ambassador; Honor Roll! Executive Committee; https://newplayexchange.org/users/30298/yvette-heyligerANTOINETTE LAVECCHIA (Award-winning Actress/Playwright/Director/Master Games teacher) Actress: Broadway, off-Broadway, regionally, film&tv (currently Lucia Francavella Mad About You.) Playwright: Two one-woman plays performed at Urban Stages, Cherry Lane Studio, Culture Project Womens Festival, Ars Nova, Parity Productions @TheaterLab. Fox Fellowship, Drama League Director Fellowship, Anna Sosenko Trust Grant. www.antoinettelavecchia.com JESSICA LITWAK is a theatre artist focused on theatre for social change: playwright, actor, director, educator, drama therapist, puppet builder, Fulbright scholar. Artistic Director of The H.E.A.T. Collective: www.theheatcollective.org MARIA MICHELES's work has appeared at the Workshop Theater, Theater for the New City, Manhattan Repertory Theater, Actors Studio, E.S.T., Shetler Studios. (Maria's monologue will be read by actress Chrysi Sylaidi. Chrysi is an actor from Greece based in NYC. A graduate from the Stella Adler Conservatory, she is the artistic director of TeamTheatre LLC.) VERNICE MILLER Educator/Director/Producer/Performer. For Civic Ensemble; worked with incarcerated youth and directed Saviana Stanescus Bee Trapped Inside the Window. Recipient of London New Play Festival's Best Actress Award. Co-founder A Laboratory for Actor Training Experimental Theatre Company. (www.ALATetc.org)LISA RAMIREZ EXIT CUCKOO (nanny in motherland), Off Broadway, Working Theater; ART OF MEMORY, 3 Legged Dog by Company SoGoNo; PAS DE DEUX (lost my shoe) Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project; TO THE BONE commissioned by Working theater presented by Cherry Lane Theatre; etc.(Lisas monologue will be read by Dawn L. Troupe. She has done Off-Broadway and Regional theater for the past 30 years. Her most recent work was on Moby Dick with Tony Award winning Rachel Chavkin and Dave Malloy.) Dr. SOPHIA ROMMA is an internationally award-winning author of fifteen stage-plays, produced Off-Off Broadway/Off-Broadway; three of which were produced at La MaMa, Cherry Lane and The Lion Theatre. gardenofavantgarde.comSAVIANA STANESCU is a playwright, poet, teacher, and ARTivist, author of Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (off-Broadway, Womens Project) and many other plays about the immigrant experience. Winner of New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Play (Waxing West). Founder of IASNY. www.saviana.com---------------------- Immigrant/International Artists and Scholars in New York (IASNY)Founded by writer Saviana Stnescu, IASNY is an alliance of outstanding people working in the arts and academia who are committed to support, nurture and advocate for immigrant and international voices as a vital and vibrant part of the New York (and upstate NY) community. Honor Roll! is an advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over 40 as well as our women+ over 40 allies. The term women+ refers to a spectrum of gender identification that includes women, non-binary identifiers and trans. The Nuyorican Poets Caf would like to thank the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Amazon Literary Partnership, the Academy of American Poets, and the New York Community Trusts COVID-19 Response Fund for helping us to provide free online programming. Please help support our efforts with a tax-deductible donation, by visiting www.nuyorican.org/contribute, or via CashApp to $NuyoricanPoetsCafe
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