AMERICAN JORNALERO Closes 3/14 at Working Theatre

A street corner in Queens. A recently mended fence. And six guys just trying to make it through.

Working Theater presents a First Stage Production of
AMERICAN JORNALERO by ED CARDONA, JR., directed by Victor Maog. The show closes March 14.

with Jeff Biehl, Neal Hemphill, Mat Hostetler, Andrès Munar, José Joaquin Perez, and Gerardo Rodriguez

Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex,
Dorothy Strelsin Theatre
312 W 36th Street (btwn 8th & 9th Aves)
Tickets $25: Click Here or call 212-868-4444

Ed Cardona, Jr.'s newest play takes a humorous and poignant look at a group of day laborers waiting to be picked up for work and their collision with two inept citizen vigilantes fashioning themselves on the Minuteman Project, a group originally organized to patrol the U.S. Southern border in an effort to keep illegal immigrants out.

Ed Cardona Jr.'s plays include: Apricot Sunday - A ten-minute play, 2008: The Best 10-Minute Plays for 2 Actors (Contemporary Playwright Series) by Lawrence Harbison, published 2009. Black & Blue Fruit, New Works Lab 09, Intar Theatre, Staged Reading, New York, NY. Piragua Papi (Snow Cone Daddy), Insight 15, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Staged Reading, New York, NY. Pablo's Christmas - A children's play, Page-to-Stage Commission, Dramatic Publishing, Adapted Pablo's Christmas - A Children's Book, By Hugo C. Martin, published in 2009. Up or Down, Staged Reading, The Welcome Mat Reading Series, Partial Comfort Productions, New York, NY. PICK UP POTS!, Staged Reading, The Working Theater, New York, NY. Bottle Rockets, Workshop Production, Insight 14, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, New York, NY. Blunt-Piercing-Edge, Staged Reading, The Welcome Mat Reading Series, Partial Comfort Productions and NewWorksLab, Intar Theatre, New York, NY. La Perla (The Pearl), Fiesta 2007: Words & Music, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, New York, NY. Mr. Cardona has been a resident with Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab at INTAR Theatre and The Hall Farm Center for the Arts & Education, Townsend, VT. He is a member of Partial Comfort Productions and The Professional Playwrights Unit at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. Mr. Cardona has received his M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia University, May 2006, where he received the John Golden Award for his thesis play, PICK UP POTS!.

Victor Maog has collaborated at NYSF/Public, Hartford Stage, Williamstown, Ma-Yi, Lark, MCC, Intar, New Dramatists, NYTW, and directed/taught for NYU/Tisch, UPenn, Fordham, and others. He has developed and directed new works including his three-man adaptation of The Tempest, Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff's martial arts experimental dance work Voice of the Dragon, and traveled to Phnom Penh in preparation for his American staging of Him Sophy's Where Elephants Weep, a Cambodian rock opera. Maog also co-devised Journey Theatre for Immigrants' Theatre Project - an ensemble creation with international victims of war and torture. He is the recipient of the prestigious NEA/TCG Career Development Award, Paula Altvater Fellowship at Cornerstone, and the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Off Broadway's 2nd Stage Theatre and represented the United States as a delegate to the InterNational Theatre Institute/UNESCO's 31st World Congress in Manila. Recently named a Sweet Briar Fellow to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, he is embarking on a two-year collaboration with The Monacan Indian Nation of the Blue Ridge Mountains, set to premiere in 2011. In addition to his freelance directing career, Mr. Maog is currently the Director of Theatre for the 97-year old Perry-Mansfield, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the oldest performing arts school in the country.

For more information, visit http://www.theworkingtheater.org/

 

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