INTAR to Premiere Octavio Solis' SE LLAMA CRISTINA Off-Broadway Tomorrow

INTAR continues its acclaimed 2014 - '15 season with the Off-Broadway premiere of Se Llama Cristina by Octavio Solís, beginning Friday, April 3rd, and continuing through May 3rd only. Opening Night is set for Monday, April 13th.

Lou Moreno will direct a cast that includes David Anzuelo, Yadira Guevara-Prip, Gerardo Rodriguez, and Carmen Zilles. Se Llama Cristina will have scenic design by Raul Abrego, lighting design by Christina Watanabe, costume design by Meaghan Healey , and sound design by Francesc Sitges-Sardá.

Enter this incredible, multi-layered fever dream in which a young man and woman wake up in a strange room, and must piece together their past identities and relationship while they construct a new future and grapple with the possibility of being parents. This play, which runs 90 minutes, will be performed in English, without an intermission. Se Llama Cristina had its World Premiere at the Magic Theatre as part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Subsequent productions at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, TX and The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, CA were also part of this rolling world premiere. This production marks its Off-Broadway debut.

"I am proud that INTAR will present Octavio's beautiful play and remind the NY theatre community of the unique voice of this nationally renowned playwright," said INTAR Artistic Director Lou Moreno.

Octavio Solís, the author of over twenty plays, is considered by many to be one of the most prominent Latino playwrights in America. With works that both draw on and transcend the Mexican-American experience, he is a writer and director whose style defies formula, examining the darkness, magic and humor of humanity with brutal honesty and characteristic intensity. His imaginative and ever-evolving work continues to cross cultural and aesthetic boundaries, solidifying him as one of the great playwrights of our time. His work includes Alicia's Miracle, Se Llama Cristina, John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Quixote, Lydia, June in a Box, Lethe, Marfa Lights, Gibraltar, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The 7 Visions of Encarnación, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro,Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, and La Posada Mágica which have been mounted at the California Shakespeare Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, the Dallas Theater Center, the Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory Theatre, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shadowlight Productions, the Venture Theatre in Philadelphia, Latino Chicago Theatre Company, Boston Court and Kitchen Dog Theatre, the New York Summer Play Festival, Teatro Vista in Chicago, El Teatro Campesino, the Undermain Theatre in Dallas, Thick Description, Campo Santo, the Imua Theatre Company in New York, and Cornerstone Theatre. His collaborative works include Cloudlands, with music by Adam Gwon; Burning Dreams, co-written with Julie Hebert and Gina Leishman; and Shiner written with Erik Ehn. Solis has received an NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the Roger L. Stevens award from the Kennedy Center, the Will Glickman Playwright Award, a production grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and the National Latino Playwriting Award for 2003. He is the recipient of the 2000-2001 National Theatre Artists Residency Grant from TCG and the Pew Charitable Trust and he has also just been awarded the 2014 Pen Center USA Award for Drama. Solis is a Thornton Wilder Fellow for the MacDowell Colony, New Dramatists alum and member of the Dramatists Guild. His new anthology, The River Plays has been published by NoPassPort Publishing. He is currently working on commissions for the Magic Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre. Mr. Solis was recently awarded the 2014 PEN Center USA's Annual Award for Drama for this play.

For INTAR, Lou Moreno directed Drawn and Quartered by Maggie Bofill, which was developed in INTAR's NewWorks Lab, and was INTAR's inaugural production under his leadership as well as Lucy Loves Me, written by Migdalia Cruz. Other directing credits include Trying by Erin Browne (The Bushwick Starr); Minotaur a Romance and Beautiful by David Anzuelo (LAByrinth Theater Company at The Public Theater); MCC Youth Festival (Manhattan Class Company); Kingdom (NYMF); End of the Line (MCC Youth Company); Rock/Paper/Scissors (NY Hip-Hop Theater Festival at The Public Theater); The Bigger Man (Partial Comfort); and Blues for a Gray Sun by Nilaja Sun (INTAR). He also serves as an Associate Producer with The 24-Hour Company (Athens, Greece and Broadway). Moreno won the 2005 Princess Grace Award for Directing.

INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino theatres producing in English, works to:

- Nurture the professional development of Latino theater artists;Ø Produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives;

- Make accessible the diversity inherent in America's cultural heritage through an integrated program of workshops, productions of works-in-progress, and mainstage productions. INTAR brings to the public vital and energetic voices of emerging and accomplished Latino theater professionals, giving expression to the diversity and depth of today's Latino-American community.

Performances will be Monday and Thursdays to Saturday evenings at 8pm, Wednesday evenings at 6pm, and Sundays at 5pm. (No performances Sunday April 5th, Monday evenings April 20 and 27th). Performances will take place at INTAR's theater space (500 West 52nd Street, at Tenth Avenue, on the 4th Floor).

Tickets for all performance will be $30 (except Opening Night ) and may be purchased at www.intartheatre.org or by calling 212/352-3101. A limited number of tickets for Opening Night will be available to the public for $50 by calling INTAR at 212/695-6134.

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