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  • Panel on GENOCIDE DRAMA at CUNY Graduate Center Arts Conference, NYC

    PRESS RELEASE
    February 9, 2009
    Contact: : Zara Zeitountsian

    tel: 818-613 9090
    [email protected]


    Panel on GENOCIDE DRAMA
    at CUNY Graduate Center Arts Conference in NYC, Feb. 13-14


    Taking place at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 fifth ave. NYC) on
    Friday February 13 and Saturday February 14, this two-day conference
    is the third incarnation of a live forum for the exchange of work and
    dreams among the far-flung members of a virtual network between
    theatres and the academy - a band of playwrights, directors, actors,
    producers and musicians from across the United States called No
    Passport.

    The conference curators are Caridad Svich (founder), Randy Gener,
    Patricia Ybarra (Brown University) and Frank Hentschker, with the
    support of The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, The Internationalists,
    Theatre Without Borders and Frank Hentschker.

    To RSVP, call 212.817.8215 or send an email to [email protected].

    The conference will focus on a wide range of contemporary works for
    theatre and performance, viewing historical memory, legacy and
    r/evolutionary art from a variety of formal perspective. Topics that
    will be addressed in panels and works-in-progress include: US Latino/a
    and African-American theatre history and cross-generational paradigms
    for artistic production, conflicts and mis-readings of aesthetic
    diversity vis-a-vis identity politics and post-racial sensibilities,
    migration and exile as they affect content and form; genocide drama
    and the representation of sacrifice on stage; the ecologies of theatre
    criticism in the US; queer dis-identifications in Latino/a theatre;
    new media, dramaturgy and hybrid performances, and the unfixing of
    international theatre. There will also be a book launch for four new
    volumes from NoPassport Press.


    The "Genocide Drama" panel which will be led by president of the
    Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, playwright Bianca Bagatourian, will
    take place on Saturday, Feb.

    14th from 2:30-3:30 pm in the Martin Segal Theater and is open to the
    public. The panelists include Marcy Arlin, Artistic Director of
    Immigrants' Theatre Project in NYC; Stacie Chaiken, writer-performer
    and instructor at the USC school of theater; Alexander Dinelaris,
    playwright and author of the play Red Dog Howls; Catherine Filloux,
    award-winning author of the play Lemkin's House; J.T. Rogers, whose
    last play The Overwhelming was seen at the NFT and the Roundabout
    theater; and Kelly Stuart, playwright and faculty member at Columbia
    University. Various angles on the topic of "Genocide" and how it is
    portrayed in drama today will be discussed as well as the relevance of
    theater as an art form that reflects the current dialogue of today.


    NoPassport, founded by Caridad Svich as a Pan-American theatre
    alliance & press devoted to action, advocacy, and change toward the
    fostering of cross-cultural diversity and difference in the arts with
    an emphasis on the embrace of the hemispheric spirit in US Latino/a
    and Latin-American theatre-making.

    The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance strives to fulfill its mission of
    projecting the Armenian voice on a world stage through theater and
    film by offering contests for new writing, play readings and various
    educational programs. For more information, please see
    www.armeniandrama.org.
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