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Education at NYTW: Past Public Programs 2007/08 Panel Discussions and Readings THE BLACK EYED Thursday, August 2: Post-performance conversation with The Black Eyed playwright Betty Shamieh and Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face and M. Butterfly), discussing their experiences as pioneering playwrights of color. Thursday, August 9: Post-performance conversation with Betty Shamieh, Dalia Basiouny, an Egyptian theatre artist, academic, and translator, and Hala Nassar, Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Culture and Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. The discussion will focus on the Arab and feminist themes of The Black Eyed. THE MISANTHROPE Traditions
and Innovations in the Staging of Molière A panel discussion exploring traditions and innovations in the staging of Molière featured production dramaturg Bart Van den Eynde and two members of the NYU French faculty: Dr. Judith Miller, Department Chair and specialist in French and Francophone theatre, and Dr. Benoît Bolduc, specialist in 17th century French history and performance. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Ted Ziter of the Tisch Drama faculty at NYU. 2006/07 Panel Discussions and Readings THE
TELENOVELA AND THE MEDIA In partnership with the General Consulate of Colombia in New York and coordination with the NYTW production of ¡El Conquistador!, NYTW presented a panel featuring the creators of ¡El Conquistador! and several media scholars, including: Hanna Rosin is a staff writer at the Washington Post and author of the June 2006 New Yorker piece on socially conscious telenovelas. Esta de Fossard is Senior Education-Entertainment Advisor in the Center for Communication Programs at Johns Hopkins University and travels internationally teaching about the use of radio and TV programs to effect positive social change. Victor Mallarino is one of the most important figures in Colombian television and theatre, and has been involved in many telenovelas including Sangre de Lobos, El Inutil, La Baby Sister, and Leche. Mr. Mallarino appears on video in NYTW’s production of ¡El Conquistador! and is one of its co-creators. Tatiana Mallarino is the director/co-creator of ¡El Conquistador! and an artistic associate of the Buntport Theater in Denver and Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental. Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, she worked on the telenovela Leche. Thaddeus Phillips is a Pew Fellow and the Artistic Director of Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental. He co-created ¡El Conquistador! with Tatiana Mallarino and Victor Mallarino, and appears as its lead—and only live—performer. Panelists explored the overwhelming phenomenon of the telenovela in Colombia and throughout Latin America, the impact of the telenovela on everyday life, the transnationalization of the telenovela, the utilization of the telenovela in social marketing campaigns and its impact on social change, the revelation of Latin American political realities through telenovela narratives, and the telenovela’s influence on media images of Latino people.
New
York Theatre Workshop, in sponsorship with the Vera List Center for
Art and Politics and the Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The
New School, presented a panel entitled “The Two-Way Street: American
Immigration and The Individual,” which focused on past and present
immigration to the United States, examining the experiences of different
immigrant groups from a multidisciplinary perspective. Following the
panel, members of the KAOS creative team performed and discussed
the ideas surrounding this collaboration of American and Italian artists
that is based on the work of Luigi Pirandello, the Taviani Brothers,
and Tonino Guerra, and premiered at NYTW in November. Bob Hennelly, Moderator, is an award-winning investigative journalist for WNYC. While at WNYC, he has reported on a wide variety of major public policy questions ranging from immigration and homeland security to power outages and utility mergers. He always has had a keen interest in the role of immigration in the evolution of the United States. Before coming to WNYC, he was national affairs correspondent for Pacifica Network News. His written work has appeared in the New York Times, Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, and dozens of other magazines and newspapers. He has acted as a consultant/reporter for 60 Minutes and been featured on C-Span’s America and the Courts as well as on C-Span’s Washington Roundtable. Natalia Indrimi is the director of the Primo Levi Center for Italian Jewish Studies and a curator at the Center for Jewish History. She recently served as the artistic director of La Centrale dell’Arte International Art Exchange, a transnational cultural project connecting Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Nancy
Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College,
the City University of New York. Her primary area of academic focus
is immigration, and she is particularly interested in comparing immigration
today with earlier periods in the United States, the immigrant experience
in various American gateway cities, and immigration in the United States
and Europe. Professor Foner is a member of the Social Science Research
Council Committee on International Migration, the Russell Sage Foundation
Immigration Research Advisory Committee, and the Statue of Liberty/Ellis
Island History Advisory Committee. 5pm:
Music from KAOS ASWAT:
VOICES OF PALESTINE New
York University's Loewe Theatre A two-day program of readings by playwrights of Palestinian and Arab descent and playwrights of other backgrounds exploring Palestinian themes Presented by New York Theatre Workshop and Nibras in partnership with the Drama Department of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Description: Full
Program Schedule: 12:30pm Break (coffee/tea/light snacks provided) 1pm
Reading and Discussion: Last Train to Jerusalem by Fuad Abboud,
directed by Will Frears 3:30pm Break 4pm
Session 2 6:30pm
Break Sunday, May 6 2pm
Session 4 4:30pm Closing Reception (refreshments provided) About
Nibras: Founded in June 2001, Nibras is an Arab-American theatre collective built upon a shared passion and united by a common heritage. Its mission is to create a network for Arab-American theatre artists to share their talent, experience and passion by staging imaginative and articulate productions that increase the positive visibility and creative expression of Arabs and Arab-Americans. It is Nibras's belief that by fostering an understanding of the Arab experience in America, we can begin to create a greater understanding between all the communities that form the rich and intricate web of American culture. Nibras
producing committee for Aswat: Nibras
includes Founding Members Leila Buck, Maha Chehlaoui, Rana Kazkaz, Omar
Koury, Najla Said, and Afaf Shawwa, and
Nathalie Handal, Abigail Marateck, Sami Metwasi, Samir Younis, and Waleed
F. Zuaiter. Razanne Carmey is a London-born Palestinian who started writing for British theatre in 1998. Her first two plays, The Ballad of Reading Gaol and 'Til Love Us Do Part were both social dramas. She also conceived and organized the UK Best Short Play of the Year Award. Razanne turned to political theatre in 2001 with two short plays about the Nakba commissioned for the Peacock Theatre in London’s West End. Since then, she has researched and written extensively about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, and six of her plays have been produced in London, including: When Time Must Have a Stop (2002), Shooting with Parsley (2004), It Happened in a Time of Curfew (2005), and, most recently, How Palestine Became Israel (2006). As co-founder of Palestine Theatre in Motion (PTIM), she recently delivered a series of seminars and training workshops to theatre groups in Palestine, and organized the writing competition “Plan Dalet to Deir Yassin.” As director/producer, Razanne Carmey has directed 7 plays and co-produced 12 shows. Yussef El Guindi is a playwright living in Seattle. His most recent production, Back of the Throat, won the 2004 Northwest Playwright’s Competition, was nominated for the 2006 American Theater Critics Association’s Steinberg/New Play Award, was voted “Best New Play of 2005” by the Seattle Times, and has been published by Dramatists Play Service. It first was staged by San Francisco’s Thick Description and Golden Thread Productions, then later presented by Theater Schmeater in Seattle, Manbites Dog Theater in Durham, the Cyrano Theater Company in Anchorage, the Flea Theater in New York, the Furious Theatre Company in Pasadena, and Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago. In 2005, Silk Road Theatre Project produced his Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith, which recently won Chicago’s After Dark Award for “Best New Play.” His two related one-acts, originally titled Acts of Desire and now known as Such a Beautiful Voice is Sayeda’s and Karima’s City, were staged by the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles and published by Dramatists Play Service. Other recent productions include: Karima’s City (San Francisco and Cairo International Experimental Theater Festival 2004, both presented by Golden Thread Productions); Murder in the Mirror (a radio play presented by Stage Shadows at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York); and, Men on Mars (a radio play aired in 2004 by Shoestring Radio Theater in San Francisco). His adaptation of Chekhov’s A Marriage Proposal into an Arab-American setting was staged by the Arab Theatrical Arts Guild in Dearborn, MI, and was nominated for several PAGE awards including “Outstanding Achievement in Original Play or Adaptation.” His short film Love Stalks won an award for “Best Short Narrative Film” at the Seattle Underground Film Festival, and was aired on KTEH. His short stories Habibi and Ohio recently were published in Seattle Review and Mizna, respectively, and another short story, Stage Directions for an Extended Conversation, was published in Dinarzad’s Children, an anthology of Arab-American Fiction. Yussef holds an M.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University and was playwright-in-residence at Duke University. Nathalie Handal is a poet, writer, playwright, director, and producer. She has lived in Europe, the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Arab world, and has been involved either as a writer, director, or producer in over twenty productions worldwide. Two of her plays, La Cosa Dei Sogni and Between Our Lips, were produced at the Blue Heron Theatre in 2005 and showcased at the Public Theater’s “New Work Now! - Arab/Israeli Festival” in 2006 (in collaboration with Nibras and New York Theatre Workshop). Some of her other productions include: The Details of Silence (Writer; Symphony Space and Claudia Cassidy Theatre, produced by Silk Road and the City of Chicago), Hi Joan! by Maysoon Zayid (Director), Grenade by Yussef El Guindi (Director), Before We Start by Yussef El Guindi (Director), and Living It Up on Long Island (Assistant Director). She is the author of two poetry CDs and two books of poetry, editor of three anthologies, recipient of the Menada Literary Award, and winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and has been shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She is a member of Nibras, co-founder of Palestinian Theatre in Motion (PTIM), and Associate Artist and Development Executive for The Kazbah Project, a production company with which she currently is working on the feature film Gibran. Lameece
Issaq is an actor and writer whose performance work includes
Girl Blog From Iraq: Baghdad Burning (Barrow Street Theater/Edinburgh
Fringe Festival - Stage Theater Award Nomination, Outstanding Ensemble);
Stuff Happens (Public Theater - Drama Desk Award, Outstanding
Ensemble); Details of Silence (Symphony Space); “A”
Date, (Writer/Actor; New York Arab-American Comedy Festival); The
Rebirth of Beautiful (New York Playwright’s Festival); Layla’s
Sahra (New York Fringe Festival/Arab American Comedy Festival);
Chronicles of Elenor (Pan Asian Repertory); Cymbeline
(The Vineyard Playhouse); Adventures of Perseus (McCarter Theatre);
Seven Deadly Sins (Hyde Park Theater - Austin Circle of Critics
Award, “Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy”); The Dinosaur
Within (State Theater - Austin Circle of Critics Nomination, “Best
Actress in a Drama”). She holds an M.F.A. from the University
of Texas, Austin. Afaf Shawwa is a Palestinian-Canadian actress who has appeared on stage and in independent films in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. She is a founding member of Nibras and co-creator of the award-winning show Sajjil (Record). Afaf decided to create a stage adaptation of Suad Amiry’s hit book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, which has been translated into 16 languages, because of its witty, absurd, and tragically funny approach to life under occupation. She looks forward to eventually playing the role of Dr. Amiry, whom she got to know in 1996 while living in the West Bank. Naomi Wallace is a playwright whose work has been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. Her plays include One Flea Spare, In the Heart of America, Slaughter City, The Inland Sea, The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, and The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East. Her work has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, and an Obie. She is also a recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. Her award-winning film Lawn Dogs is available on DVD. She is presently working on a commission for Actors Theatre of Louisville and Clean Break of London. Her new play Things of Dry Hours received its world premiere at the Pittsburgh Public in 2004, and at the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Gate Theatre of London in 2007. It will receive its New York premiere at New York Theatre Workshop in 2008.
Storyboard Cafés aspire to build a culture of discourse within our audiences by engaging participants as active oral historians. Individuals from specific groups whose heritage is represented in season productions gather to listen to a keynote speaker and share their own stories over food and drink using a structured discussion format. For the 2006/07 Storyboard Café, invited speakers addressed issues faced by immigrant groups in New York. The first Café on November 18th, presented in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, featured Italian journalist, author, and translator Francesco Durante as the keynote speaker, and highlighted Italian immigration and Italian Americans in conjunction with Martha Clarke’s KAOS.
Jayme Koszyn interviewed lead artists from season productions, discussing the artistic process, themes of the season, and distinctive features of the current work. This season’s Artist Dialogues featured Thaddeus Phillips and Tatiana Mallarino, co-creators of ¡El Conquistador!; Martha Clarke and Giovanni Papotto, director/choreographer and dramaturg of KAOS; Alan Ball, author of All That I Will Ever Be; and, John Fugelsang, creator and performer of All The Wrong Reasons.
NYTW continued its popular AfterWords post-performance discussions, which in fact are the precursor to our expanded series of Public Programs. At these free events following selected performances, audience members participate in an open discussion with members of the cast and creative team, moderated by NYTW Associate Development Director Michaela Goldhaber. Designed
to provoke further thought and dialogue about the production and the
artistic process, AfterWords events during the 2005/06 Season included
a discussion with Will Power and Bill T. Jones about their collaboration
on The Seven, and a panel of the entire design team from Bach
at Leipzig. This season’s AfterWords featured two discussions
on the creation of ¡El Conquistador! with Thaddeus Phillips
and Tatiana Mallarino, and three discussions on the development of KAOS,
first with Jim Nicola and Martha Clarke, who focused on the project’s
genesis, second with adaptor Frank Pugliese, dramaturg Giovanni Papotto,
and music directors Jill Jaffe and John La Barbera, who focused on text
and music, and third with 11 members of the cast, including both Italian
and American actors, dancers, and musicians, who focused on the KAOS
creation process. There were four AfterWords in conjunction with the
world premiere of Alan Ball's All That I Will Ever Be. Ball
himself participated in two discussions, one with director Jo Bonney
and one with members of the cast. A third discussion was held with the
entire cast, and a final one engaged the production team and stage crew
in a discussion of the form and function of the production design. Three
discussions with writer/performer John Fugelsang and director Pam MacKinnon
of All The Wrong Reasons took place, focusing on different
aspects of the process of creating a solo theatre piece.
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