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)
Week One Program 2
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)
Week Two Prpgram 1
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)
Week Two Program 2
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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