Nueva Cancion Set For Next New City, New Blood Series 5/11, Meet Aurin Squire

For 35 years, Pulitzer Prize winning THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY has nurtured hundreds of playwrights through its EMERGING PLAYWRIGHTS PROGRAM. In June, 2006, we launched NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD, a play reading series designed to serve our audiences and writers even better. Curated by Michael Scott-Price, TNC Literary Manager, NEW CITY , NEW BLOOD will provide a hearing for worthy plays in earlier stages of Development. Audiences will get the opportunity to provide feedback, and artists will gain valuable insight from audience response. Be sure to check www.theaterforthenewcity.net for details about upcoming readings. Please join us!

NEW CITY, NEW BLOOD READINGS:
Next Reading Monday, May 11th, 7:00pm
Wine and Cheese. COME EAT AND DRINK WITH US AND MEET THE WRITER!
Contribution: $5
Nueva Cancion by Aurin Squire
Music can move an election, a government and a people. Nueva Cancion is the true story of the 'new' song that rose from the hearts of millions in South America during the 60s and 70s. Nueva Cancion ushered in a new era of artists like Victor Jara and Violetta Para as well as democractic leaders like Salvador Allende. Crushed by the American government and military, the music and the voice of the people went underground but did not die. Nueva Cancion is the story of that thing which can never be killed: our voices.
Bio
Aurin Squire is a playwright, screenwriter and freelance reporter. He graduated with honors from Northwestern University and completed an MFA in playwriting at the Actors Studio through New School University. He's worked as a screenwriter for indie film companies like Moxie Pictures and LMG, and been a reporter for the Miami Herald, Chicago Tribune and continues to freelance. In 2007 Aurin was commissioned to work with the Tectonics Theatre company to research a docu-drama about Sephardic Jewish culture and in 2008 he was a resident playwright at Freedom Train Productions, a Black LGBT company. This year he's serving as director of new play development for FTP and his award-winning play "To Whom It May Concern" just closed off-broadway in April to glowing reviews. He's working on Nueva Cancion for a fall premiere with a co-sponsorship between Theater for the New City and Amensty International. Aurin is also cartoon writer for Bodega Ave., an online comic about his Brooklyn neighborhood.
This performance reading is directed by KAREN M. DABNEY.
KAREN M. DABNEY: Recently Karen produced and directed Woyzeck in Stuyvesant Square. Other credits include: Space, I Have It, Fat Kids on Fire, Sick (winner of 2006 Samuel French Short Play Festival) and Mom, Stoned(all by Bekah Brunstetter); Onward, Forward; Any Number Can Die; Great to See You; Not So Bad Once You Get Used To It; The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year; Drift; A Stall of One's Own; American Buffalo; Zipless; Eleemosynary; PIMP. She was a Directing Observer at the Pearl Theatre on Hamlet, Assistant Director at NSD on Black Snow, Stage Manager for 29th EST Marathon. MFA, New School for Drama, NY; BA, St. Olaf College, MN.

Please rsvp to: literary@theaterforthenewcity.net

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