LIA'S 5th Anniversary Play Fest Runs 4/16-5/9 Including AMERICANIZE & More

LIVING IMAGE ARTS THEATER COMPANY Celebrates 5 YEARS WITH 5 NEW PLAYS

LIA'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY NEW PLAY FESTIVAL
April 16th though May 9th, 2009
Featuring

¡ AMERICANIZE !
A Survival Guide to Life in America

4 PLAYS 4 AMERICAN STORIES
Finding it hard to find your way in the America of today?
Don't despair... AMERICANIZE!

Living Image Arts 5th Anniversary Festival of One-Acts features the world premiere of 4 uniquely American new works about 4 distinctly American life experiences. From the love-struck brokers of Wall Street to immigration raids torn from today's headlines, from doughnut-hurling Grannies to Charlie's Angels-obsessed housewives, Americanize will show you just what it is to be a Real American.

AND

THE WORLD PREMIER OF
GOD, SEX & BLUE WATER
By LINDA FAIGAO-HALL
Directed by NELSON T. EUSEBIO III

A Test of Faith An Act of Love A Choice.

It is a world away from the Philippine Islands to Hoboken, New Jersey for a girl with a secret gift. As her Uncle Max sings Karaoke and her Mother prepares for the Pasyon, a Filipino Lenten ritual of self crucifixion, Clarita faces the greatest unknown - love.
Only maybe New Jersey is not the right place for any of this.
This innovative, shocking and startlingly comic play brings fresh insight into the ways we deal with family, faith and fundamentalism.

Brought to you by the producers who delivered COMING HOME, COMMITTED, HOW TO LOSE YOUR LOVER IN 6 SHORT PLAYS and this season's 18th Century Sexual Symphony, EMILIE's VOLTAIRE, Living Image Arts is proud to present this heartbreakingly hilarious, disturbingly dysfunctional, perfectly perverse view of the country we call home.

THE PLAYS of AMERICANIZE

ANGER AND THE DOUGHNUT
By Robert Askins
Directed by Alexa Polmer

CHARLES WINN SPEAKS
By C.S. Hanson
Directed by Lynn M. Thomson

DIRT
By Tony Zertuche
Directed by Claudia Acosta

GRACEFUL LIVING
By Maria Gabriele
Directed by Holli Harms

THE PLAYING SCHEDULE

¡ AMERICANIZE !
PREVIEWS
April 16th, 17th & 22nd @ 8pm
PERFORMANCES
April 24th though May 9th
Wednesdays & Fridays @ 8:00 pm
Saturdays @ 3:00 pm

GOD, SEX & BLUE WATER
PREVIEWS
April 18th & 21st @ 8pm, April 19th @ 3pm
PERFORMANCES
April 23rd through May 9th
Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays @ 8pm,
Sunday Matinees @ 3pm

TICKETS $18
www.TicketCentral.com
212-279-4200

PLAYING AT THE LION THEATER AT THEATER ROW
410 West 42nd Street (between 9th & 10th Ave.) New York, NY 40036

www.LivingImageArts.org

ABOUT LIVING IMAGE ARTS THEATER COMPANY
PETER MARSH - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MIA VACULIK - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

In only five seasons LIA has developed and produced 25 new plays presented as fully staged, Off & Off-Off Broadway productions and served as the incubator for over 50 new literary works. Now entering its pivotal fifth season, LIA continues to thrive and expand its MainStage season and developmental programs with help from the more than 500 theatrical artists with whom we have collaborated and our new corporate partners, The Fund for the City of New York and Disney.

Living Image Arts is a not-for-profit organization that provides a vital opportunity for New York artists to develop new work, cultivate relationships with other remarkable theater professionals and to realize their artistic vision in production. We are founded on the belief that to develop the craft and skills necessary to work as an artist requires a supportive environment; a community of peers who grow and work together. Our mission is to...
- create compelling, innovative new work
- foster the development of diverse and distinctive voices
- provide a supportive and sustainable artistic home for professional artists
- strengthen & expand the collaboration between artists & the public
- contribute to the growth of theater as a living and relevant art form
Since its inception, LIA has showcased the talent of hundreds of diverse and distinctive voices and consistently produces compelling and innovative new theater. As we move into the future, we will continue to bring you theater of the highest quality and hold true to our vision of artistic excellence and theater as a living and relevant art form.

MIA VACULIK is co-founder and Executive Director of Living Image Arts where she has created and grown a dozen developmental programs for writers, actors, directors and audiences and produced the last five theatrical seasons. Mia has worked in the non-profit and corporate world for 18 years. She served as Summer Conference Coordinator for Lexington Center for the Arts, taught actors at the Meisner Studio at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and re-established and directed the Institute For Professional Training at Ensemble Studio Theatre.

As Artistic Director and co-founder of Living Image Arts, PETER MARSH has overseen the production of twenty five new plays for LIA and the development of more than 50 original scripts. Other NY production credits include: Romulus Linney's Klonsky and Schwartz, Horton Foote's The Traveling Lady (Drama Desk nominee) and Mountains in the Berrings by Sean Sutherland, as well as Octoberfest (a festival of 80 plays in 30 days) for Ensemble Studio Theatre where he served as producer in residence in 2006. Peter has taught at the Meisner Studio, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Under his leadership Living Image Arts has been recognized as "one of the best small theater companies of New York's off-off Broadway."
"A terrific presentation of One-Acts... Living Image Arts is indeed one of the best small theater companies of New York's Off-Off Broadway!" - Off-Off Broadway