GOD, SEX & BLUE WATER With Cabrera, Eisenman Opens 4/23 At Living Image
By: Gabrielle Sierra Apr. 22, 2009
Living Image Arts Theater Company Proudly Presents the world premiere of God, Sex & Blue Water by Linda Faigao-Hall, directed by NELSON T. EUSEBIO III
Starring LEANNE CABRERA ANDREW EISENMAN, Lydia Gaston RYAN McCARTHY
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 gift from God. As her Uncle Max sings Karaoke and her Mother prepares for the Pasyon, a Filipino Lenten ritual of self-crucifixion, Clarita faces a greater unknown- love. Torn between her feeling for her Mother and her new American lover she must sacrifice all she has known to discover the meaning of faith.
Only maybe New Jersey is not the right place for any of this.
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THE PLAYING SCHEDULE
PERFORMANCES
April 23rd through May 9th
Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays @ 8pm,
Sunday Matinees @ 3pm
"Living Image Arts is indeed one of the best small theater companies of New York's Off-Off Broadway!"
-Off Off Broadway Review
Playwright LINDA FAIGAO-HALL This is Linda Faigao-Hall's 5th play on Theater Row since 2004: Sparrow (LIA), The A -Word (Diverse City Theater Company), a revival of The FeMale Heart (June 2007) and its world premiere with Ensemble Studio Theater and DCT in 2004. Other produced plays include Salad Days and Other Stories (Ma-Yi Theater) Pusong Babae, Duet, and The Interview, (Find Your Voice, Inc. formerly Starfish Theatreworks Inc.); Woman From the Other Side of the World, Asian-American Repertory Theater, San Diego, CA; InterAct Theater, Sacramento, CA; East West Players Inc. Los Angeles; Ma-Yi Theater NYC; State Without Grace, Pan Asian Repertory Theater NYC; Asian-American Theater Company, San Francisco. She has just completed a full-length play, Dying in Boulder and is currently working on a new one entitled Lay of the Land about a Filipina activist, fleeing from the Marcos dictatorship, looking for a home in the East Village in the 80's. This play owes its early development to Suzanne Bennett at the Women's Project, John Clinton Eisner at the Lark for its bare-bones production, Marcy Arlin, among others. Ms. Faigao-Hall has a MA in English Literature from New York University, doctoral studies in Educational Theater, Bretton Hall College, England. She thanks Terence, her husband of twenty-five years and their 23-year-old son Justin, without whom writing plays would be meaningless.
Director NELSON T. EUSEBIO III is the co-founder and artistic director of Creative Destruction www.CreativeD.org a theatrical collective dedicated to the creation of diverse, political drama. Directing credits include: Obama Drama: A Political Theatrical Spectacular! (Creative Destruction), 365 Days/365 Plays (Ma-Yi/The Public Theatre), Finding Ways...(Pan Asian Rep), Marat/Sade, A MidSummer Night's Dream (Yale), The Bacchae (R.I.T.C.-Bulgaria), Savage/ Love & Tongues (Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts); The Three Birds (Yale Cabaret); REPO! The Genetic Opera (Split Id); Closer (Lodestone Theatre Ensemble). Training: M.F.A., Directing, Yale School of Drama.
LEANNE CABRERA (Clarita Kintanar) New York theatre work includes: The Fan Tan King, Ninja: The Musical, Gauguin / Savage Light, Dear Maudie, Itadakimasu - A Happy Meal, Cinderella, and Feng Shui Assassin. Favorite regional roles: Luisa in The Fantasticks at Bristol Riverside Theatre, Rachel in Jewtopia at Florida Studio Theatre, Liat in South Pacific at Sacramento Music Circus, and Eliza in The King and I at Millbrook Playhouse. She also enjoys doing film, commercial, print, and voice-over work.
ANDREW EISENMAN (Max "Dadong" Saavedra) has worked with: Ma-Yi Theater, National Asian American Theater Company, NYSF/Public Theater, Lark Theatre, IMUA! Theater, The New Group, Immigrants' Theater Project, Diverse City Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Fluid Motion Film & Theater, and Living Image Arts, among others. TV & Film: The Sopranos, Rigodon, CardiacArrest, Missy and The Vanished. He is currently an Associated Artist with Living Image Arts.
Lydia Gaston (Laling Kintanar) Broadway credits include: The King and I (1996 B'way revival), Miss Saigon, Jerome Robbins' B'way, Shogun, and The Red Shoes. She has created roles with Pan Asian Rep (Cambodia Agonistes, Joy Luck Club), NAATCO (Fuenteovejuna, He Who Says Yes/He Who Says No), Ma-Yi (Peregrinasyon, Nikimalika). Regionally, she has appeared at Paper Mill Playhouse, Virginia Opera, Reagle Players,, the Hangar Theatre, and Goodspeed Opera House. She was a member of the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab 2008 and holds a B.A. in Theatre and Dance from Empire State College/SUNY. Lydia (a.k.a. Mrs. Greenberg), lives in Brooklyn with husband Karl and their daughter Maya.
RYAN McCARTHY (Brian Andersen) New York credits include: Obama Drama (Creative Destruction), King Lear (Public Theater), Henry V (Public Theater/NYSF), We Declare You a Terrorist (HERE). Regional: Ryan has appeared at La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Stage Company, Theater at Monmouth and the Huntington Theater. Upcoming: FUBAR (Project Y.) at 59th E 59th. Education: The Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab, UC San Diego MFA '06.
Set MICHAEL LOCHER Lights CAT TATE Sound GEOFFREY ROECKER
Costumes Christina Bullard Production Stage Manager STEFANIA SCHRAMM
Assistant Stage Managers BRIAN BARNETT EMILY GASSER JULIO PEREZ
Producers PETER MARSH MIA VACULIK
PETER MARSH - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
MIA VACULIK - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Over the past five seasons LIA has worked with over 500 artists to develop and produce 25 new plays presented as fully staged, professional productions, and has served as an incubator for dozens of new theatrical works. Living Image Arts, Inc. is a New York-based, not-for-profit 501(c)3 theater arts organization. Living Image Arts provides a vital opportunity for New York's most talented artists to develop new work, cultivate relationships with other remarkable theater professionals and to realize their artistic vision in production. Now in its pivotal fifth season, LIA continues to thrive and expand its MainStage developmental programs with help from its new partners The Fund for the City of New York and the Disney VoluntEARS Program. The New Play Festival began in 2005 here at Theatre Row with How To Lose Your Lover in 6 short plays, a guide to the What-not-to-do's of love. Since then, the festival has featured the collaborative efforts of hundreds of artists and the world premiere of twenty-one new plays. Living Image Arts 5th Annual Festival of New Plays features 5 uniquely American stories told by five distinct voices in NY theater. God, Sex & Blue Water is the first full-length play featured in this festival and runs in rep with ¡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!
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 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 Bering 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 Broadw"
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