A Nervous Smile-Free Play Reading at Gables' New Theatre

New Theatre announces a play reading of John Belluso's A
Nervous Smile

NEW THEATRE
At the Burstein Family Stage
4120 Laguna Street
Coral Gables, Florida 33146

305-443-5909 (Box Office)

http://www.new-theatre.org

John Belluso's A Nervous Smile

At New Theatre, 4120 Laguna Street, in Coral Gables
On Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at SEVEN P.M.

Admission is Free

Background: Fresh from this year's Humana Festival, this moving play
is the story of parents who decide to abandon the responsibility of
looking after their disabled children, when they find themselves
suffering from "caregiver burnout." Playwright John Belluso explores
this issue without judgement, all the while showing us there are no
easy answers to caring for any child.

Biography
John Belluso's plays include: A NERVOUS SMILE (produced by the
Actor's Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New Plays), THE
BODY OF BOURNE (produced by the Mark Taper Forum), HENRY FLAMETHROWA
(produced by Trinity Repertory Company, Victory Gardens Theatre and
Studio Dante), THE RULES OF CHARITY (produced by the Magic Theatre),
PYRETOWN (developed at NYSF/Public Theatre's New Work Now Festival,
produced by Geva Theatre, Victory Gardens and Keen Company), BODY
SONGS created with legendary theatre director Joseph Chaikin (Eugene
O'Neill Center/NPC, workshopped at the NYSF/Public Theatre), GRETTY
GOOD TIME (produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Perishable
Theatre, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the
Falcon Theatre).
Awards and honors include an NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Grant
for a residency at the Atlantic Theatre, the AT&T On-Stage Award,
the Mark Taper Forum's Sherwood Award, as well as grants from the
New York Foundation for the Arts, the Berrilla Kerr Foundation,the
Blanche and Iriving Laurie Foundation and honorable mention for the
Kesselring Prize.

In addition, from 1999 to 2005 he served as the Director of the Mark
Taper Forum's Other Voices Project for Disabled Theatre Artists, one
of the nation's only professional developmental labs for theatre
artists with disabilities.

This reading will be directed by Tara Vodihn, New Theatre's Literary
Manager, with Angie Radosh, Irene Adjan, Bruce Linser, and Harriet
Oser.
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