Ching Valdes-Aran and Ali Ewoldt Set for THE PEARL PROJECT, 7/6-25

Ching Valdes-Aran and Ali Ewoldt are set to star in Diverse City Theater's The Pearl Project.  Performances run July 6-25 at the Clurman Theatre, and will feature full-length plays by Eric Gamalinda and Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza and two one-acts, by Kristine M. Reyes. Valdes-Aran will star in Gamalinda's Resurrection, and Ewoldt in Reyes' Quarter Century Baby. Additional casting and creative teams are yet to be announced.

 Tickets are $18 and can be purchased by calling 212-279-4200 beginning June 1, 2010.  The Clurman Theatre is located at 410 West 42^nd Street in New York City.

Eric Gamalinda has received numerous awards and grants for his writing and film, including the Asian American Literary Award, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Philippine Centennial Literary Prize, the National Book Award, and a number of Palanca Literary awards for fiction, poetry, essay and playwriting in the Philippines. Most recently, he was a finalist for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize for his new novel, The Descartes Highlands.

 Kristine M. Reyes is a Filipina-American playwright based in New York City.  She was the recipient of Diverse City Theater Company's First Draft Fellowship for her full-length play, Queen for a Day, in 2005.  She has studied at The Primary Stages School of Theater, and at Ensemble Studio Theatre with Romulus Linney, Edward Allan Baker, and the late Curt Dempster.  

 Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza holds a Ph.D. in Postcolonial Literature from Drew University and an M.F.A. degree from The Actors Studio at The New School.  Her trilogy of plays, Migration Blues, was produced by the University Diversity Initiative at The New School; and her play, Missing Person, was presented at the Circle in the Square Theater as part of Actors Studio's repertory season.  In 1996, Sonza won the prestigious Palanca Literary Award for her play, Dog Days in America-which also earned a spot in the University of Massachusetts' Southeast Asian Women Playwright Archive.  In 2007, Jorshinelle received her second Palanca Literary award for her play, Pure.

For additional information, visit: www.diversecitytheater.org.

Formed in April 2003, Diverse City Theater Company--run by artist playwrights, directors and actors--is an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) theater developing and producing organization based in the world's most diverse city, New York. Our mission is to promote multiculturalism in the theater arts by developing and producing powerful and thought-provoking works that explore and examine our society's diversity issues from social, cultural, gender, demographic and global perspectives; create multiculturally fluent theater audiences; and advocate the non-traditional casting of actors to reflect the rich spectrum and diversity of our national culture.

Diverse City Theater Company is theater for the global village. It is home for championing artists where all voices are heard and where art and human truths are freely expressed without judgment.

Photo Credit: Linda Lenzi

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