Columbia University School of the Arts Presents BROKEN APRIL

Columbia University School of the Arts is proud to present Arthur Makaryan's (Columbia MFA Directing Candidate 2018) production of BROKEN APRIL adapted by Ned Moore (Columbia MFA Dramaturgy Candidate 2018).

Deep in the mountains, a young man is caught up in a blood feud that has plagued his family for generations. With one month to live, he must make an impossible choice: break the cycle to fight for love, or surrender to fate. BROKEN APRIL explores the true cost of forgiveness in a world of hate.

FEATURING: Matt Ryan, Layla Wolfgang, James Jelkin*, Jedidjah Oldenburg, Andre Silva, and Pierre Deacon-Mialon*.

* Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association

General Manager Yijin Liu, Production Stage Manager Caitlyn Dominguez, Asst. Stage Manager Taeuk Kang, Company Manager Diana Levy, Composer John Carden,Choreographer Avery Sobczak, Scenic Designers Kelvin Pater and Maria Feuereisen, Costume Designer Emily White, Lighting Designer Kyle Soble, Sound DesignerSpencer G. Shafter, and Graphic Designer Anchuli Felicia King.

BROKEN APRIL will run for a strictly limited engagement at The Lenfest Center for the Arts at 615 W. 129th St. Performances are January 24-27 at 8 pm, with a 2 pmmatinee Saturday, January 27.

Tickets: $15 General Admission/ $5 Seniors/ FREE with Student ID (enter code: "STUDENT").

Ticketing Info: https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/events/directors-thesis-broken-april

Director: Arthur Makaryan

Director Arthur Makaryan is the recipient of the 2017-18 Opera Directing Fellowship at the Julliard School. He holds masters degrees from La Sorbonne University in Paris and the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinematography. He has assisted directors throughout Europe and the United States. He is trained in the acting methods of Stanislavski, Grotowski, Suzuki, Barba, and Chekhov. He co-founded Epsidon Theatre Company in Armenia in 2012 where he staged two musicals. In 2014, he made his Avignon Off Festival debut with A la vie, a la mort (performance by Simone Rist). For more information, visit Arthur's official website: www.arthurmakaryan.com

Playwright: Ned Moore

Ned Moore is a theatre artist and writer based in New York City. His translation of Euripides' Bakkhai premiered at The Fisher Center for Performing Arts in 2013, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz. Bakkhai was restaged in 2015 at the Marigny Opera House in New Orleans, directed by Ned Moore. Since then, Ned has received fellowships from The Croatian National Theatre, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Tulane University, and Columbia University. His critical writing appears in Culturebot and TDF Stages magazines. BA Literature, Bard College '13. Ned is a third-year MFA Dramaturgy candidate at Columbia University. www.nedmoore.com

About Columbia University School of the Arts:

The Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University School of the Arts presents a season of thesis actor and director productions as well as a festival of new plays by emerging playwrights each year. The Theatre Program at the School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in: Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Stage Management, and Theatre Management & Producing. For more information about the Theatre Program, visit

http://arts.columbia.edu/theatre.