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Ari Laura Kreith

ARI LAURA KREITH

  
Nationality:    USA
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Theatre 167 is an ensemble dedicated to creating imaginative, deeply collaborative plays that investigate cultural complexities, explore connection, and celebrate community. We produce new work by artists of wide-ranging backgrounds, traditions and beliefs. Our multicultural, multilingual ensemble engages with and reflects the world as we know it. ARI LAURA KREITH is Artistic Director of Theatre 167, where she conceived and directed 167 Tongues, You Are Now The Owner Of This Suitcase, and Jackson Heights 3AM-three full-length, multi-writer plays inspired by the world's most diverse neighborhood. The plays premiered at Theatre 167 and Queens Theatre, and were recently produced in Manhattan as a six-hour epic with a cast of 37 actors playing 93 roles in 11 languages. Other NYC premieres include Double Vision (NYC Fringe/Fringe "Encores" Selection), Memory Play (Women's Project Directors Forum, starring Eli Wallach), Trip (Provincetown Playhouse; Jig Cook Award Winner), The Golden Aurora (NYC Fringe), 2Gether (a multi-writer drama inspired by a note found on the subway). Musical theatre highlights include the European premiere of Myths and Hymns, the cabaret Way Back To Paradise (starring Jeffrey Carlson), and Dreamhouse, which she also co-created. Ari discovered her love for developing plays and collaborating with playwrights during her seven years as Artistic Director of California's Theatre Zoe, a company dedicated to new American theatre. She is particularly drawn to work that investigates cultural intersections and builds bridges between and within communities. BA: Theatre Studies (Yale University). MFA: Acting (UC Davis).

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         167 Tongues         2Gether         Church of Why Not, The         Double Vision         Dreamhouse         Golden Aurora, The         Jackson Heights 3Am         Memory Play         Myths and Hymns         Trip         Way Back To Paradise         You Are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase

167 Tongues

Synopsis:
167 Tongues explores the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world. Intermittent street scenes weave together alongside continuous stories in this 37-character play. an Indian sweet shop vendor struggles to keep her store going and her suitors at bay, a Nepali woman and a Mexican man fall in love across a linguistic divide, an Irish ghost befriends an troubled ecuadorian girl and her Bangladeshi best friend, a Dominican manicurist wonders whether her Jewish Chinese boyfriend will propose before she is deported by the INS, and a Rwandan night nurse attempts to understand the 167 distinct languages spoken in the local emergency Room. This theatrical experience combines street scenes with continuous narratives, found sounds, and movement in an exploration of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most diverse neighborhood in the world.
- nytheatre.com

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conceived and directed by Ari Laura Kreith. the piece is written by 11 writers: Jenny Lyn Bader, Meny Beriro, Alvin eng, Steven Fechter, Jennifer Gibbs, Les Hunter, Anna Kushner, Rehana Mirza, Jeffrey Solomon, Suzanne Sheptock, And Stefanie Zadravec.

1st Produced:
P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave, Jackson Heights (Queens), Ny    07 May 2010

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Jackson Repertory Theatre

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Play/Drama 105 min

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2Gether

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multi-writer drama inspired by a note found on the subway

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Church of Why Not, The

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The Church of Why Not is a new play exploring a remarkable institution on the Upper West Side, The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, where Methodists, Ethiopian Evangelicals, Conservative Jews, and LGBT Christian Latinos share space with recovery programs, tutoring, activist organizations, a homeless shelter, and a youth band, Pilates classes and a food pantry that feeds thousands. Created through Theatre 167s unique deeply collaborative system of collective authorship, the play is staged the very place that inspired it. Featuring an ensemble cast of 19 performers, The Church of Why Not tells the stories of believers and skeptics, the well-heeled and the homeless, activists and addicts. Some need food, some crave connection, and others need help  with math, guitar chords, a Bar Mitzvah. At times funny, at times heartbreaking, The Church of Why Not celebrates both our spiritual diversity and our common humanity.

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written by Camilo Almonacid, Jenny Lyn Bader, and J.Stephen Brantley; Conceived and Directed by Ari Laura Kreith

1st Produced:
West End Theater at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew, 263 W. 86th Street, 2nd Floor, NY    20 Feb 2015

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Theatre 167

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Double Vision

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Dreamhouse

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Golden Aurora, The

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Jackson Heights 3Am

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Seven playwrights explore the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world from 10pm-4am - its brightest lights and loneliest corners - in dance clubs, all-night bakeries, sex shops, laundromats, side streets, and alleyways. they ate arepas prepared by the "sainted arepa lady" and, two blocks away, saw the homeless fed by the local hero a.k.a. "angel of Queens" under the elevated trains. they interviewed numbers-players, sex trafficking experts, bartenders, cops, and cross-dressers. they were invited to dance, to gamble, and to watch an undercover police operation. . . and they were invited to let their imaginations run dark, funny, sexy, and very very late. It was written using collaborative methods developed by theatre 167, with the seven playwrights sharing characters and storylines, melding distinct voices and languages into one whole.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Jenny Lyn Bader, J. Stephen Brantley, ed Cardona, Les Hunter, Tom Miller, Melisa Tien And Joy Tomasko; conceived by Laura Kreith

1st Produced:
Ps 69, 77-02 37th Ave And Queens Theater In The Park, Ny    13 Jan 2012

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Theatre 167 in association with Queens Theatre

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Memory Play

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Myths and Hymns

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Trip

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Way Back To Paradise

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You Are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase

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a young woman arriving from ecuador accidentally switches suitcases with a mysterious stranger. Her quest to recover the missing suitcase will lead her to encounter lovers, dreamers, fighters, a magical cell phone, books that come to life, and the best guitar player in the world. Picking up where last year's 167 Tongues left off, You are Now the Owner Of This Suitcase is the second part of a trilogy exploring the emotional geography of Jackson Heights, Queens, the most culturally diverse neighborhood in the world.
- nytheatre.com

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author: Mando Alvarado, Jenny Lyn Bader, Barbara Cassidy, Les Hunter, Joy Tomasko, Gary Winter, Stefanie Zadravec. Conceived And Directed By: Ari Laura Kreith

1st Produced:
P.S. 69, 77-02 37th Ave., Jackson Heights (Queens), Ny    11 Mar 2011

Organisations:
Theatre 167

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