Paradise-Theatrical Thriller at Gables' New Theatre

Glyn O'Malley's play PARADISE at New Theatre 

PARADISE a play by Glyn O'Malley at New Theatre 
January 13 - February 12, 2006
New Theatre at 4120 Laguna Street, Coral Gables, Florida 33146

For Tickets Call: 305 443 5909

Thursday 12 - Preview. 8 p.m. Tickets $20

Friday 13 - Subscribers and Donors' pre-opening at 8 p.m.

Tickets (for non-subscribers) are $55 and include a pre-show buffet,
open wine bar, and an informal post-play reception with the cast and
playwright.

Saturday 14  - Press opening at 8 p.m.

Sunday 15 – Performance at 1 pm followed by a post show talk-back
with the playwright, director and staff.

Remaining performances: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
and Sundays at 1 p.m and 5:30 pm. (No 5:30 pm performance on Jan. 15
or Feb. 12)

Ticket prices for all performances:
Thursdays - $30; Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays - $40; Students Rush
Basis- $10

For more details please visit us at http://www.new-theatre.org

Directed by Ricky J. Martinez
With Bridget Connors (Shoshana) , Euriamis Losada (Omar), Beatriz
Montañez (Fatima), Rudy Mungaray (Bassam) and Samara Siskin (Sara)

Set design: Jesse Dreikosen, Lighting design: Mike Foster
Sound design: M. Anthony Reimer, Costume design: Estela Vrancovich
Production stage manager: Kathryn Tomlinson

About the play and its playwright
"O'Malley has written a taut, tough thriller that gradually
accelerates toward its explosive climax... courageously,
unabashedly... a play of ideas. O'Malley ends his play with a ray of
hope, which is beautiful. The strength of O'Malley's writing is that
among the myriad of choices that his characters have to make in the
course of the play, not one is presented as simple or
straightforward." - nytheatre.com

PARADISE was commissioned and awarded The Lazarus New Play Prize by
Cincinnati's Playhouse-in-the-Park in 2003. When the theatre
attempted to mount the play, a firestorm of controversy erupted,
making the play's author Glyn O'Malley, in the words of Cincinnati
Magazine, "the most talked-about and talked-to dramatist in
America." After the forced cancellation of its first stage
production, the play had public readings in several american cities.
O'Malley was subsequently nominated for PEN America's Newman's Own
First Amendment Award in 2004 for his defense of freedom of
_expression for all writers. Powerful in its message and in its
balanced presentation of opposing views, the play speaks with
passion and courage about the issues of tolerance and peace in the
context of today's Israel-Palestine crisis. Glyn O'Malley has had a
career both here in the United States and also in Europe. He's seen
his plays performed in Athens, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Frankfurt.
Closer to home, his plays have been seen at Playwright's Horizons,
Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Glines, The Phoenix Ensemble, The WPA
Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse-in-the-Park, City Lights Youth
Theatre, and Lincoln Center Institute and received numerous awards,
including the New York Foundation for The Arts Award and a Carbonell
Award nomination. In addition to the above, Mr. O'Malley has had an
extensive directing career in New York City and in regional theatres
across the USA, as well as in England, Germany, Austria, The Czech
Republic, Guatemala, Greece, and Finland.

About the director
Ricky J. Martinez is New Theatre's Associate Artistic Director. He
is a Miami-born Cuban-American proudly residing and working in South
Florida and schooled at the New World School for the Arts His acting
credits are numerous, having worked at Creative Arts, Broward Stage
Door, Miami Light Project, Dreamers Theatre, Actors' Playhouse,
Cuban-American Rep, Juggerknot, Off Broadway at HERE, Horizon's Rep,
Akropolis Acting Company and Acme. In addition to those he has
worked at New Theatre in a dozen productions. An accomplished dancer
and choreographer, he has toured nationally with the Boston Flamenco
Ballet and has worked as director in many productions, including
world premieres of Bump by Justin Swain, Retch by Ivonne Azurdia,
One More Cloudy Day by Kristoff Skalet, Barrio Hollywood by Elaine
Romero, Beauty of the Father by Nilo Cruz and The Bitter Tears of
Petra von Kant. Keenly interested in children's theatre, he has
worked as actor, director, or choreographer for five years in shows
for young audiences at Actors Playhouse, and was Artistic Director
for Hollywood Playhouse's Imagination Theater for Young Audiences. A
prolific playwright, he has also staged some of his own work,
including CALBO, a one-man show commissioned by the Miami Light
Project, which traveled to Germany and was also part of the Florida-
Brazil Festival. He most recently directed Madagascar here at New
Theatre.

About the actors and production team
Bridget Connors (Shoshana), Euriamis Losada (Omar), and Beatriz
Montañez (Fatima) are familiar faces at New Theatre, having appeared
on several productions earlier this year and last season. Rudy
Mungaray (Bassam) and Samara Siskin (Sara) both appear at New
Theatre for the first time in this production. Estela Vrancovich
(costumes) Jesse Dreikosen (set), Mike Foster (lighting) and M.
Anthony Reimber (sound) are all four New Theatre mainstays, with
both Dreikosen and Foster starting this season as resident designers
with the company.

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