REBEL VERSES: New Works Festival!
Developing Artists Theater Company presents the 5th Annual Rebel Verses: New Works Festival, held at Centre Stage from the 16 - 26 Mar 2005
Devloping artists Theater Company created Rebel Verses 5 years ago to help develop the talent of young playwrights and actors by providing them the opportunity to work in a professional off-off Broadway environment.
Devloping artists Theater Company says "What makes Rebel Verses truly special is that it brings together a variety of community youth organizations to work in concert. The festival unites an underserved segment of the theater community: one that connects teen and young adult artists � especially of color - with other artists from the Tri-State area with different levels of experience."
Participants between the ages of 13 - 24 present theatrical works that reflect the issues and emotions tackled by their generation and resonate with a multi-cultural, economically impacted, disenfranchised demographic of the audience. Rebel Verses cultivates an ethnically diverse audience of young theatergoers from the five boroughs, New Jersey and Connecticut.
20 New Works - each piece is performed twice on two different nights.
Week One Program 1
Wed 16 & Fri 18 Mar
- ViBe Solos (viBe Theater Experience)
- Bustin' Out (The Door's Bustin' Out Theater Ensemble)
- Do You!!! (Shantee Gordon & Shanell C. Campbell)
- untitled (Olivia Mandelbaum)
- Down At The Moonlight Sinata Cafe (Michael R. Jackson)
Thu 17 Mar & Sat 19 Mar
- Girlstory (girlstory)
- Angkor (Ned Myerberg)
- Gossip Folks (Patricia Rodriguez)
- On The Horizon (Jimmy Juste & Ricardo Sosa)
- The Belated (Local Color Collective)
Wed 23 Mar & Fri 25 Mar
- Estrella (El Puente)
- Work In Progress (MCC Theater Youth Company)
- Sunday Kind Of Love (Concetta Rose Rella)
- It's Simple (Jinn S. Kim)
- Straight Men In The West Village (J. Anthony Roman)
Thu 24 Mar & Sat 26 Mar
- Where The Fun Lies (Janet Manddox)
- Shake-Up-Speare (Westchester Magnet Academy)
- Roses Are Played Out (Dominique Morisseau)
- Ladies Of Street Gossip (Sabrina Toledo)
- No Salute (Ben Snyder)
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