Italian Playwrights Project 2017 Come to the Segal Theatre

After the success of the first edition of the Italian Playwrights Project (IPP, 2015/16) and a special evening dedicated to the work of Stefano Massini (Teatro Piccolo, Milan) IPP, once again the Segal Center will collaborate with Valeria Orani and Umanism NY (www.unmanism.com). The initiative will bring some of the brightest, innovative, and most engaging playwrights from Italy to New York to develop their pieces through translation into English and public readings of the work. The Italian Playwrights Project plays an important role in introducing contemporary writing from Italy to the US. The project restarted an artistic dialogue between the two countries which has been sporadic over the last 30 years.

Participants of 2015/16 IPP included Lucia Calamaro, Daria Deflorian & Antonio Tagliarini, Stefano Massini, Fausto Paravidino, and Michele Santeramo. For the first time US playwrights will also be presented in Rome, Italy on December 16th, 2017.
This year's special evening will include excerpted readings from The Horizon of Events by Elisa Casseri; My hero by Giuliana Musso; A Notebook for the Winter by Armando Pirozzi; and The Great Walk by Fabrizio Sinisi.
Excerpts will be directed by Marc Atkinson, Sara Rademacher, and John Gould Rubin. Followed by a panel discussion moderated by Frank Hentschker with the Italian playwright Elisa Casseri and other participants.

Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York (Giorgio Van Straten, Director). The upcoming anthology of New Plays from Italy from the 2015 IPP has been translated thanks to a grant by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

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