Endurance Theatre Presents PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11, beg. 8/17

Endurance Theatre is proud to present Performing Tribute 9/11: Ordinary People, Remarkable Stories in New York and New Jersey to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. Performing Tribute will be staged on August 17th at Harlem Stage, September 7th at Theatre at St Clement's, September 8th at All Souls Church and on August 31st at the Mount St Olive library in Flanders, New Jersey.

Performing Tribute brings together the unique and inspiring stories of individuals who were directly impacted by the events of 9/11 survivors of the North and South Towers; family members who lost loved ones; an evacuated area resident; a retired FDNY firefighter who responded to the site, a New Jersey resident who volunteered in the aftermath with the Salvation Army, and volunteers who helped in the rescue and recovery. The individual experiences are told first-hand and woven together in a moving theatrical event.

The actual people who experienced 9/11 perform the piece, telling their stories via a reader?s theatre style in front of moving images from the day.

At each presentation of Performing Tribute a piece from the cladding of the towers will be on display. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey distributed pieces of the World Trade Center rubble to organizations and cities around the world for memorials. Endurance Theatre received a small piece in August of 2010.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11: Ordinary People, Remarkable Stories plays the following schedule:

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 7:30PM at Harlem Stage ? The Gatehouse (150 Convent Ave)
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 7PM at Mount Olive Public Library (202 Flanders-Drakestown Rd, Flanders, NJ)
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 7PM at The Theater at St. Clement?s (423 W. 46th St)
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 7PM at All Souls Church (1157 Lexington Ave)
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7PM at Jan Hus Church (351 E. 74th St)

Created by theatre artist Donna Kaz, a former resident of Battery Park City and volunteer docent at the WTC via the Tribute Center, Performing Tribute is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Performing tribute will star Gerry bogacz, Desiree Bouchat, Gail Langsner, Paul McFadden, Fred Sager, Ann Van Hine.  It is produced by Jill Bernard.

Tickets are FREE and will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. Doors open twenty minutes prior to the start of each show.

Running Time: 75 minutes (including post-show Q&A)

For more information, please visit: www.performingtribute.com

 

"A quiet reminder that the construction going on now is more than redevelopment. It is recovery."
- David W. Dunlap, The New York Times

"A profound performance that shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with a belief that they can and will make the world a better place." 
- Michael Arad, World Trade Center Memorial

BIOGRAPHIES

DONNA KAZ (writer/director) has worked as a writer and director across the US and UK and locally in New York City at The Director's Company, HERE, Expanded Arts, The Century Center and The York Theatre Company. Most recently she wrote the book/lyrics for Food On The Aisle (music by Gerald Stockstill) and LIVE! NUDE! GIRL! (music by Wayne Barker) for the NY Musical Theatre Festival. Other plays include JOAN which received a Jason Miller Award and an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award nomination. Donna studied with Sanford Meisner and apprenticed with Nagoya Musume Kabuki, the only all female kabuki troupe in Japan. She is the recipient of residency fellowships from Yaddo, Djerassi, The Blue Mountain Center, The Ucross Foundation and The New Lyric Institute for New Musicals. She is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a volunteer docent for the Tribute Center.

Endurance Theatre is the only theatre company in the US that produces work created by women theatre artists who are over the age of 40. Our mission is to make theatre that reflects the strength, insight and moxie of +40 women with productions that are written, directed, acted, designed, produced, stage-managed and staffed by a majority of women over 40.

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