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Alana Macias

ALANA MACIAS  

 Nationality:    USA / Nicaraguan
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Alana Macias is a writer, Arts organizer, and activist. Her plays and performance pieces are best known for their mixture of wildly divergent cultural influences, forms, sounds, and literary references to form a theatrical experience that embraces the changing, expanding, and transcultural meaning of what it is to be an American at the turn of the twenty-first century. Alana's parents were guerillas in the Nicaraguan civil war and she was born in a make-shift hospital in the ruins of post-earthquake Managua. Her upbringing was radical in every sense of the word, as her mother was an Irish-American former Maryknoll nun and her father was the college-educated son of Nicaraguan peasants, traumatized from extreme poverty, war, and exile. She received her MFa in Playwriting/Writing for Performance at Calarts. Her mentors are Suzan-Lori Parks, Erik Ehn, Carl Hancock Rux, anne Garcia-Romero, and Luis alfaro. She was a Finalist for the 2007 Sundance Screenwriters' Lab, the 2007 Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center, and the Public Theater's 2007-2008 Emerging Writers Program.

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 Circle Course         Denny's Chronicles         Episode One: Lonely Together         Sand And Snow         Sandinista Sam         When The Tigris Runs Black

Circle Course

Synopsis:
Given Mira Kingsley's research and notes: The movement of flight, the movement of bodies, the movement of amelia Earhart's self in time and space. Celestial navigation and finding the way through, apart, within, and in spite of actual historical events. To find the person in a legend means moving beyond biography.

Notes:
Directors: Mira Kingsley (co-writer) And Chi-wang Yang

1st Produced:
Marion Huber Theater, New Jersey    2007

Organisations:
Two River Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dance/movement theater with text and sound score

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Denny's Chronicles

Synopsis:
Three a.M. at Denny's and all the crazy that goes with it. Two teens sit down over coffee and fumble towards revelation and release as we learn one has a parent who is dying.

Notes:
Director: Patrice Bailey

1st Produced:
Red Rooster Theater    1996

Organisations:
Key West Theater Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Episode One: Lonely Together

Synopsis:
On this weeks' COPS episode: Maria is illegal, unwanted, and suspects Jason is fooling around when he leaves the trailer park. When she threatens their dog Toby, the patrolling officers realize they've got some great ratings material.

Notes:
Director: Tina Parker. New Plays Festival Medea Project Short Plays Staged Reading

1st Produced:
The Mac    2006

Organisations:
Kitchen Dog Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Multi-media short piece with live cameras

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sand And Snow

Synopsis:
Francine needs to pass this legal intake to escape Cameroon and detainment and torture. But the new American world outside her window is vast and covered in shining white, a new thing called snow. Forsaken wanderers, inhospitable havens, Christmas.

Notes:
Director: Elizabeth Ware

1st Produced:
Bath House Cultural Center    -

Organisations:
Ground Zero Theater Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Ten min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Sandinista Sam

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Finalist, New York Public Theater's Emerging Writers Program

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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When The Tigris Runs Black

Synopsis:
Dr. Loren Malone is having interludes with the ancient Sumerian hero Gilgamesh while salvaging her archeological dig from looting and bombing. Rahail al-Jamil is getting around the fact that she wrote a best-selling book planning Iraqi reconstruction without ever having been there. One of our oldest places and all of its' unprotected treasure is smashed to bits.

Notes:
2007 Jerome Fellowship Finalist. Director: Luis Alfaro

1st Produced:
Ford amphitheater, Los Angeles, Latino Playreading Series    2007

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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