[nyfoil-l] Friday 7PM - Richard Willett's 9/10 (Special SALAAM event)

[Geeta Citygirl]

Friday, September 10, 2004 - 7:00 PM
doors open at 6:45pm

SALAAM Theatre
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
invites you to our fourth installation of AWAAZ
reflecting on three years since 9/11/01...
too much blood... too many tears... too much...

AWAAZ** - New Voices/ New Plays
presents a special event reading of

Richard Willett's
9/10
Directed by Eliza Beckwith.

SYNOPSIS:  9/10 tells four stories that take place the night before
September 11, 2001.  It's a play about tragedy, comedy, and the timeless
ability of New York City to inspire dreams.

Featuring Al Rodriguez, Chuck Patterson, Denis Bergin, Nicole
Zanzarella, Bill Dobbins, Poorna Jagannathan, Masa Naganishi and
Christine Farrell.

Q&A and complimentary hors d'oeuvres and libations for your pleasure.

SALAAM Theatre
16 West 32nd Street - 10th floor
Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway
New York, NY 10001

Admission by donation: (nobody is turned away due to lack of funds)
$5 minimum, $10 suggested, $15 appreciated

Reservations RECOMMENDED:
Phone: 212.330.8097
Email: rsvp at SALAAMtheatre.org

Take time to remember the day that will remain permanently carved into
our creative spirits.  It was three years ago at about this time when
the city stopped.  When our eyes were opened up to the atrocities
happening around the world.  We want to remember our loved ones lost...
Rest in Peace...

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: RICHARD WILLETT's plays, which in addition to 9/10
include TRIPTYCH, RANDOM HARVEST, WEEKEND AT THE WILLARD, and TINY
BUBBLES, have been presented off-Broadway and at theaters across the
country.  Honors include an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, a
Tennessee Williams Scholarship, an OOBR Award, and grants from the Arch
and Bruce Brown Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.
For his screenplays, Richard has been a finalist for the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting,
the New Century Writer Awards, the CineStory Screenwriting Awards, the
Austin Heart of Film Screenplay Competition, and the Chesterfield
Writer's Film Project at Paramount Pictures.  He is the co-artistic
director of New Directions Theater (www.newdirectionstheater.org), where
his play THE FLID SHOW will reopen in January 2005,  and is also the
author of ten published short stories.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: ELIZA BECKWITH is Co-Artistic Director of New
Directions Theatre, where she continues her collaboration with
playwright Richard Willett.  She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre,
where she directed four plays in their annual Marathon of One-Act Plays,
including "A Once Attractive Woman", written by Christine Farrell.

**AWAAZ means VOICE.
Please join us for each installment of our AWAAZ Play Reading Series.
You never know what special talents you'll meet so just mark your
calendars and be part of this growing movement of artists and activists.
For an energizing and engaging event, make it SALAAM time.

SALAAM Theatre - AWAAZ Team:
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
Priyanka Mathew, Play Development Coordinator
Ragini Jain, Artistic Intern

SALAAM Theatre is a proud member of THAW - Theaters Against War and
United for Peace and Justice.
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                  "We get arts and activism mixed up."
                  - Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
       SALAAM Theatre (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
                      http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org