HARAM IRAN with NARENDRA “ANDY” GALA (MFA2) and Sound by Cricket S. Myers (MFA 05 Sound Design)
LOVE. SACRIFICE. INJUSTICE.
BASED ON TRUE EVENTS…
HARAM IRAN is a coming of age tale about two boys, struggling to find their place as Arab Iranians in a modern world, whose lives change in an instant when they are caught in a compromising position. Ayaz Marhoni and Mahmoud Asgari are publicly humiliated and subsequently tried in the Iranian legal system when they refuse to betray one another. The story follows the boys’ passions—one for literature and the other for sports—as they navigate their new relationship, the intricacies of the Iranian legal system and discover what it means to sacrifice oneself for love.
Alumni present The Closest Farthest Away in Miami
BUILDING THE BRIDGE TO HAVANA
Los Angeles and Cuban filmmakers, theatre artists, and musicians partner to simultaneously break political, technological, and artistic barriers in what the Miami Herald describes as “a groundbreaking and unprecedented collaboration between US and Cuban artists.”
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Citizen Divas: Women, Art, and Social Justice
Citizen Divas: Women, Art, and Social Justice
A Panel in celebration of International Women’s Day
Free of charge, open to the public
Saturday March 6th
MOCA- The Museum of Contemporary Art, AUDITORIUM
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Extended Run – Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom with Whitson Hanna (BFA 01 Acting)
Due to the popularity of Neighborhood 3: Requistition of Doom at the Tulsa PAC, Odeum Theatre Company has decided to extend it’s run by performing additional shows at the Nightingale Theater this weekend; March 4th, 5th and 6th @ 8pm.
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Whitney Museum of American Art: Live on 5 Songs: Travis Preston
In Travis Preston’s performance, Martin Kersels’s installation serves as the site of an investigation using a variety of media—video, dance, text, and sound— to evoke a more intimate experience of the work. Preston, an internationally celebrated director of theater and opera, is artistic director of the Center for New Performance at CalArts.
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Current and Alumni News for Feb 28th
CURRENT NEWS
MFA3 Producer, Jackie Banks-Mahlum, is returning to The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum as their producer for their upcoming Summer repertory season.
D&P Administrative Assistant, Barb Edwards was recently accepted to Oregon State University. Don’t worry, she won’t be leaving us; Barb plans to take her courses through their distance learning programs.
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Alum Sayda Trujillo (BFA ‘00 Acting) presents “I was Raised Mexican”
“I Was Raised Mexican” investigates the experience of acquired identity. A Guatemalan teenager finds herself identified by her community as Mexican. Visually, it is a peeling of layers, each offering a possible answer to What is Mexican? Asking, What do you see when you see me? What do we carry with us? What is impossible to leave behind? Through movement, song, absurdist and poetic text, “I Was Raised Mexican” pays close attention to what the immigrant carries with him/her and what this translates in their adopted new home/country.
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Upcoming Screenings of Derek Magyar’s (BFA 03 Acting) feature film debut Flying Lessons
I’m pleased to announce the Los Angeles and New York distributor screenings of Derek Magyar’s “Flying Lessons,” this year’s honored opening night film at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. One of Variety’s 2010 list of ‘10 Actors to Watch,’ Maggie Grace (Lost, Taken, upcoming Knight and Day) stars as a woman who’s forced to return home to face old demons and her estranged mother (Christine Lahti). Cast also includes Hal Holbrook and Cary Elwes. Worldwide rights are available.
Virginia Grise’s blu wins the 2010 Yale Drama Award
2010 Yale Drama Series Prize for Emerging Playwrights
Read the announcement in the New York Times.
Read the announcement in Playbill.
Read the announcement in Theatre Mania.
From Virginia: I’m proud to announce my play blu has been named the winner of the 2010 Yale Drama Series competition by playwright David Hare. blu was selected from over 960 submissions. As part of the award, the play will be published by Yale University Press, have a public reading at the Yale Repertory Theatre in September and I will also receive a $10,000 award issued by theDavid C. Horn Foundation.
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News from Writing for Performance Alumna Virginia Grise
I’m in San Antonio right now working on a project with Barbara Renaud Gonzalez titled Remember el Alma. I’s amazing what being home teaches you/reminds you. I am remembering things I have forgotten since I've been away. Driving down 281 the other night, I had to stop my car because at that moment, I remembered – as a high school student, I would drive to this dark spot on the access road, pull my car over and park in an empty field. Lie down on the hood of my mother's old chevy, stare at the stars, and watch the planes land and take off from the runway of the San Antonio airport. I'd take in heavy breaths of flight wondering about the places the planes had come from and gone to, trying to imagine all the places I wanted to go. I'd sit out there alone for hours dreaming underneath a blanket of stars. In all that wishing, I never imagined I would live with a houseful of female emcess in East Los Angeles, or that I would fly across continents to Africa to study the genocide in Rwanda and Uganda, or that I would serve food at soup kitchens with squatters in Amsterdam. Never imagined that I would live in the bitter cold of Minneapolis – armed with an ice scraper and jumper cables (though I do hope the ice has thawed by the time I return). Didn't realize then the power of dreams. I have a deep sense of gratitude and give thanks to those people that have supported my work and me, for holding me up, for helping me fly. I'd like to especially thank Laurie Carlos, Janet Dreisen, Irma Mayorga, Jessica Cerda, Mirasol Riojas, Marissa Ramirez, my godson Myzael and David Zamora Casas for reminding me of the importance of home, community and faith. And muchisimas gracias to la Barbara and Kellen McIntrye for creating a space for me to work, for bringing me home. To read about San Antonio artists poised to make a difference in 2010 (including David Zamora Casas, Pablo Martinez and ME) click here.
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- Seen @CalArts: Ramak Fazel’s Generative Order Exhibit
- Choreographer Sahar Javedani Explores ‘Emotional Territories of Allegiance’
- Fostering International Collaboration: CalArts Feldstärke in Essen
- Oscar winners revel in their moments
- Heard @CalArts: Maxwell Gualtieri Octet
- Citizen Divas on Women, Art and Social Justice at MOCA on Saturday
- Turntables, Tech and Sound Art at CEAIT Festival March 4-5
- Whitney Biennial 2010 Opens
- ROD Hall Concert Archive Now Online
