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Andrea Thome

ANDREA THOME

  
Nationality:    USA
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Andrea Thome is a Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born playwright who grew up navigating multiple landscapes and languages. Her plays, translations and video satires have been presented at theaters, galleries and universities around the U.S. and Latin America (including: INTAR, Victory Gardens Theater, Cherry Red Productions, Exit Art, Brava, and The Public's Under the Radar). She directs the Larks U.S.-México Playwright Exchange. Andrea also co-directs FULANA, a satire collective that creates bilingual political and cultural parodies (www.fulana.org). Andrea is a member of New Dramatists, a New Voices/New York Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and has received fellowships from NYFA, the City of Oakland, INTAR, and New York University. Past collaborators include: Culture Clash, Latina Theater Lab, Campo Santo and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Her play Undone is published in Out of Time and Place: An Anthology of Plays by the Women's Project Playwrights Lab (Women's Project and Productions, 2010)

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         Dream Acts         Global Cooling: the Women Chill         Neva

Dream Acts

Synopsis:
Imagine that you dont have a country. It doesnt matter if you believe youre American, because no one else believes you - not potential employers, not banks that issue student loans, not the government. there is no way to become legally American. You dont exist. Worse, you are hunted for deportation. You love this country, but the country does not love you back. In Dream Acts, five undocumented teens from Nigeria, Mexico, Ukraine, Korea, and Jordan face the extraordinary challenge of living ordinary lives under the radar. Each story is moving and urgent; some are funny, others are tragic, and through their experiences, we learn about facts about the DREAM Act and the secret lives lead by undocumented youth.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Mia Chung, Jessica Litwak, Chiori Miyagawa, Saviana Stanescu, Andrea Thome

1st Produced:
HERE Arts Center - Dorothy B. Williams theater
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013    23 Mar 2012

Organisations:
Dream Act Union

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
piece 75 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Global Cooling: the Women Chill

Synopsis:
For these plays, there is no curtain, no footlights, no stage. Just six site-specific, short related plays from Women's Project theater Company written for the lobbies, mezzanines, escalators, bridges, nooks, and crannies of the World Financial Center complex, 220 Vesey Street, that people pass through every day. the plays, grouped under the title Global Cooling: the Women Chill, share one topic: global warming is not so hot. All written, directed, and produced by women, these plays take place in real time and touch on the issues of Global Cooling that affect not only real people but scientists and mother nature. Global Cooling: the Women Chill is the third site-specific theatrical event Women's Project has delivered to ArtsWorld Financial Center and is another installment of 'hit and run theater' where business people, tourists and shoppers traveling through the World Financial Center may walk around, through or in a play without even knowing they have a role in the performance. Part of this experiment from Women's Project's playwright, director and producer lab is to see how real people react as a play happens next to them or around them or even with them
- press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:
World Financial Center Complex, 220 Vesey Street, NY    2009

Organisations:
Women's Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Neva

Synopsis:
In a politically charged, haunting meditation on theater and the revolutionary impulse, writer-director Guillermo Calderons NEVA tells the story of Anton Chekhovs widow, the actress Olga Knipper, who arrives in a dimly lit rehearsal room in St. Petersburg in the winter of 1905. As Olga and two other actors await the rest of the cast, they huddle together, act out scenes from their lives and muse on their art form and love - while, unseen, striking workers are being gunned down in the streets by Tsarist regime. Calderon savagely examines the relationship between theater and historical context in this ominous and tightly crafted ensemble work that allows a palpable terror to creep through the theater walls.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Guillermo Calderon

1st Produced:
Public theater
425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003    01 Mar 2013

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
translation

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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