INTAR to Stage Workshop of Migdalia Cruz's SATYRICONO

INTAR continues its acclaimed 2014 - '15 season with SATYRICOÑO by Migdalia Cruz, a workshop presentation of a new play in development with actors from INTAR's UNIT 52 project, as well as guest artists Annie Henk, David Anzuelo, Bobby Plasencia, and Lisa Ramirez. There will be only three performances, which are open to the public: Friday, June 19th, Saturday June 20th, and Sunday June 21st.

Crucifixions, hermaphrodites & nightclubs-with animatronic tongue-walls-are just a few features in the story of Reggaetón singer 'Junior Giton', the bastard son of the emperor/president of the UAS (United Altered States). Abandoned in the legendary Puerto Rican self-policed walled ghetto of La Perla, Junior plots to undo his traitorous father's already-crumbling empire, and waits for the moment to strike. His star is rising - musically, sexually, and politically.

MIGDALIA CRUZ's work has been produced across the U.S. and abroad at various venues including: Mabou Mines, Classic Stage Company, Playwrights Horizons, INTAR, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Monarch Theater, En-Garde Arts, HOME, Shaliko Company, New York Shakespeare Festival's Festival Latino, Theatre For The New City, and the W.O.W. Cafe (New York); Ateneo Puertorriqueño (PR); National Theater of Greece (Athens); Foro Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Mexico City); Old Red Lion (London, England); Vancouver Players (Vancouver, B.C.); Latino Chicago Theater Company (Chicago); Houston Grand Opera (Houston); American Repertory Theatre (Cambridge); Cleveland Public Theatre (Cleveland); Frank Theatre (Minneapolis); Théâtre d'aujourd hui (Montreal); American Music Theatre Festival (Philadelphia); Intersection for the Arts/LATA (San Francisco); and Cornerstone Theater Company (Los Angeles), among others. She has been nurtured by Maria Irene Fornés' Playwrights' Laboratory at INTAR; Royal Court Theatre/New Dramatists Exchange '94 (London); Steppenwolf Theatre's New PlaysLab (Chicago); Bay Area Playwrights' Festival '94, Festival Latino'93 at Teatro Mision (San Francisco); the Sundance Institute; Midwest PlayLabs; Mark Taper Forum's New Play Festival; Omaha Magic Theatre; "Songs from Coconut Hill" Theater Festival '05; South Coast Rep's HPP '04. She has written more than 50 plays including: Salt, Fur, Miriam's Flowers, Lucy Loves Me, Dreams of Home, Telling Tales, ¡CHE-CHE-CHE!, Latins In La-La Land, Cigarettes and Moby-Dick, Lolita de Lares, Yellow Eyes, and Running For Blood: No. 3 (a radio play). She wrote book and lyrics for the musicals Rushing Waters, Welcome Back To Salamanca and When Galaxy Six and The Bronx Collide; the libretto for an opera, Street Sense; and lyrics and monologues for Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo. Her plays and monologues are published by NoPassport Press, Theatre Communications Group, U. of Arizona Press, Routledge Press, Penguin Books, Arte Publico Press, Applause Books, Smith & Kraus Publishers, and Third Woman Press. She taught playwriting at U.of Iowa/Playwrights' Workshop, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton University, and at Amherst College, and guest lectured at Yale University, Wesleyan University, Mount Holyoke College, and Columbia University. Her play, The Have-little was the runner-up for the 1991 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and SALT was a 1997 runner-up. She was born and raised in the Bronx.

DANIEL JÁQUEZ is an award winning director, translator and producer whose work has been seen throughout New York city, across the USA and internationally. Mr. Jáquez, a graduate of the ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard University, is an Advisory Committee member for Lark's US/Mexico Word Exchange. He was director of INTAR Theatre's NewWorks Lab and is currently Director and teaching artist of UNIT52, INTAR's acting company. He is co-founder of Calpulli Mexican Dance Theatre in NYC and has served as panelist at TCG, NEA, New Dramatists. Daniel grew up in Ciudad Juárez, México. For more, visit www.DanielJaquez.com.
UNIT 52 is INTAR Theatre's new actors initiative. The UNIT is a company of actors who train one day a week, year round. UNIT52 members have access to several master teachers, theatre artists and special invited guests. Each year, the training is determined by the needs and interests of the company in preparation for a public presentation of a play. Acceptance into this program is via interview and audition. The program is tuition free. Guiding this effort is a need to expose young artists to INTAR's history and to the many and varied artists that have gone thru its doors. Guests artists in the past few years have included: Stephen Adly Guirgis, Daniel Irizarri, Nancy Rodríguez, Julián Mesri.

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