REBEL VERSES: New Works Festival!

Developing Artists Theater Company presents the 7th Annual Rebel Verses: New Works Festival, held at Centre Stage from the 28 Feb - 10 Mar 2007

Devloping artists Theater Company created Rebel Verses: New Works Festival 7 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: New Works Festival 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: New Works Festival 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 28 Feb & Fri 2 Mar

  • TBA (Writer: viBe Theater Experience, Director: Jordana DeLory)
  • Lakeside (Writer: Ben Clawson, Director: Rob Bradshaw)
  • Amen (Writer: Sam Maher, Director: Michele Pace)
  • Magic Marker (Writer: Jeff Grow)
  • He Said, She Said (Writer: Olivia Mandelbaum, Director: Elizabeth Canavan)
Week One Program 2
Thu 1 Mar & Sat 3 Mar
  • Jungle Alley (Writer: The New Group Youth Theater, Director: Zach Kline)
  • Borders (Writer & Director: David Boone)
  • The Have & Have Nots of an American Tragedy (Writer: Anthony Roman, Director: Jill DeArmon)
  • Delayed Explosion (Writer & Director: Michael Ferrell)
Week Two Program 1
Wed 7 Mar & Fri 9 Mar
  • Union Square (Writer: David Solomon, Director: Jill DeArmon)
  • Sonny Wakes Up (Writer: Mark Guttman, Director: Ben Snyder)
  • Crush (Writer & Director: Dominic Colon)
  • Plastic Tree (Writer: Meghan Lynch, Director: Ryan Etzel)
  • Frequency (Writer: Concetta Rose Rella & Jesse Prager, Director: Jill DeArmon)
Week Two Program 2
Thu 8 Mar & Sat 10 Mar
  • TBA (Writer: MCC Theater Youth Company, Director: Stephen DiMenna)
  • Saying I Love You (Writer: Melissa Ross, Director: Brian Roff)
  • Last First Kiss (Writer & Director: Chad Beckim)
  • TBA (Writer: Jeremy Richards, Director: TBA)
  • Son Dress (Writer & Director: Greg Keller)
  • Killing/Play (Writer& Director: David Anzuelo, Composer: Cristian Amigo)

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