Starting and ending in New York City, the AROUND THE GLOBE CHAIN PLAY will be written as it travels around the world making 18 stops with playwrights from 16 countries across the globe. Each playwright will contribute the next one to four pages of text, moving the plot forward from where the previous playwright left off. The AROUND THE GLOBE CHAIN PLAY playwrights are Kristoffer Diaz (USA), Andrew Templeton (Canada), Mariana Levy (Argentina), Mariana Hartasánchez (Mexico), Sarah Treem (USA), Ross Meuller (Australia), Michelle Tan (Singapore), Purva Naresh (India), Vera Ion (Romania), Natalia Antonova (Russia), Najwa Sabra (Lebanon), Deborah Asiimwe (Uganda), JC Niala (Kenya), Ogutu Muraya (The Netherlands), Lola Blasco Mena (Spain), Oladipo Agbouaje (England), Ian Rowlands (Wales), and Qui Nguyen (USA).
The final AROUND THE GLOBE CHAIN PLAY script will be given a staged reading on World Theatre Day, March 27th at 7:00 PM. The reading will take place at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036). The reading will be directed by Ana Margineanu, a Romanian theatre director based in NYC. Casting will be announced shortly.
The reading will also be live streamed on
innovativetheatre.org/live.
The reading of the AROUND THE GLOBE CHAIN PLAY will be following by a World Theatre Day Reception where a number of NYC theatre luminaries will read the International Theatre Institute's World Theatre Day Message.
The New York City World Theatre Day Coalition was formed in 2010 to create a widespread awareness of World Theatre Day in NYC by connecting the NYC theatre community to other theatre communities around the world and encouraging audiences in NYC and beyond to celebrate with us by attending the theatre. The Coalition is lead by an eight member Steering Committee that includes: The Alliance for Resident Theatres - New York
www.art-newyork.org, The
American Theatre Wing-
www.americantheatrewing.org, The Innovative Theatre Foundation -
www.nyitawards.com, The Lark Play Development Center -
www.larktheatre.org, The League of Independent Theater -
www.litny.org, The New International Theatre Experience -
www.nitecorp.com, and The
Theatre Development Fund -
www.tdf.org.
Theatre companies can join the NYC World Theatre Day Coalition and participate in the WTD activities by going to
www.nycwtd.com.
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