INTAR To Present the World Premiere of Drawn and Quartered 6/1-26

INTAR (Lou Moreno, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will present Drawn and Quartered, a new play by Maggie Bofill, directed by Lou Moreno, beginning performances Off-Broadway Wednesday June 1st, and continuing through June 26th only, at INTAR's theater space (500 West 52nd Street, at Tenth Avenue, on the 4th Floor). Opening Night is set for Tuesday June 7th at 8pm. The play runs 75 minutes and contains nudity and is for mature audiences only.

Featured in Drawn and Quartered are Jose Joaquin Perez and Liza Ramirez. Drawn and Quartered will have scenic design by Raul Abrego, costume design by Meghan E. Healey, and lighting design by Maria Christina Fuste. Drawn and Quartered was developed as part of INTAR's New Works Lab.
Drawn and Quartered is about the explosive reunion of a couple: Ana and Michael were together for four years - until the night of the big fight, when Michael left without coming back to get his stuff. After no contact for six months, Ana decides to sell the studio apartment they once shared, and on hearing Michael's down and out, hires him to do it. She leaves him instructions and upon her return two days later, finds he's thrown much more than paint on those banged up walls. What ensues is the volcanic grapple of two people - angry, impassioned, lacerated, and still very much in... something. A story about torture, pain, paint, and love, all to the beat of a live conga.

Drawn and Quartered is the first play by Maggie Bofill developed at INTAR. It was developed through INTAR's New Works Lab. Her plays Face Cream and They Killed Boo Boo were developed in the Barn Series at LAByrinth Theater Company, where she is a founding member. Face Cream went on to a production at the Ensemble Studio Theater in the 2009 Marathon.

As a director, Lou Moreno has worked with many theater companies on the development of new plays. Projects currently in development include Fishing For Alaska by Sturgis Warner (NY Theater Workshop), Icarus Burns by Christopher Peña (The Playwrights Realm), and The Spanish Version by Luis Santeiro (INTAR). In addition, Lou is developing Rikers Hot, a Princess Grace Foundation Special Project Grant. Recent credits include Trying by Erin Browne (The Bushwick Starr), Minotaur, A Romance and Beautiful, both by David Anzuelo (LAByrinth Theatre Company at The Public Theater), 7th Inning Stretch (Mile Square Theatre), the Fresh Play Festival (Manhattan Class Company), Kingdom (NYMF), End of the Line (MCC Youth Company), Rock/Paper/Scissors by Ben Snyder (NY Hip-Hop Theater Festival at The Public Theater), The Bigger Man by Sam Marks (Partial Comfort Productions), and Blues For A Gray Sun by Nilaja Sun (INTAR). He also serves as an Associate Producer with The 24-Hour Company where he has produced 10 shows in New York as well as Montreal, Canada and Athens, Greece. For the past ten years he has taught playwriting for Manhattan Theatre Club at the RNDC Youth Facility on Rikers Island.

Liza Ramirez's NY credits include Dramatis Personae by Gonzalo Rodriguez Risco (Cherry Lane Theatre), Cowboy Mouth (Producers Club), and Yerma (Circle in the Square Theatre). Last year she was in the world premiere of Ground by Lisa Dillman (Actors Theatre of Louisville), as part of the 2010 Humana Festival, directed by Artistic Director Marc Masterson. Other world premieres: Tanya Saracho's adaptation of The House on Mango Street and Jason Well's Perfect Mendacity (winner of the 2010 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award) both at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, and Boleros for the Disenchanted (Goodman Theatre), a Midwest premiere of a new play by Jose Rivera. Chicago credits: Sonia Flew (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Victory Gardens Theatre, The Gift Theatre), On The Verge (Remy Bumppo Theatre), Widowers' Houses (TimeLine Theatre), and Psst... I Have Something To Tell You Mi Amor directed by Henry Godinez (Athenaeum Theatre). Film credits: music videos and independent films made in Chicago and New York, including St. Paul (Dir. Francisco Ordonez, Best Short '09 Imagen Awards).

Jose Joaquin Perez is a proud graduate of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. His Off-Broadway credits include Fit by Neil Koenigsberg in Summer Shorts at 59E59 Theaters, American Jornalero at The Working Theater, Minotaur: A Romance at LABryinth Theater Company/The Public. His regional credits include Take Me Out at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Hartford Stage, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Oedipus El Rey at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. His film credits include We Need to Talk About Kevin (official selection of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival), Cowboys and Aliens, The Graveyard, Turtle Hill, Cruzando, Esquinero, Shadowland: The Movie, Le Boit Noire, Chicaneur Gadget (Wicked Games), and Cuando Ya No Me Queires.

INTAR, one of the United States' longest running Latino theatres producing in English, works to:
Ø Nurture the professional development of Latino theater artists.

Ø Produce bold, innovative, artistically significant plays that reflect diverse perspectives

Ø 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 continues to raise standards of the theater arts. INTAR brings to the public vital and energetic voices of both promising and accomplished Latino theater professionals, replacing stereotypes while giving expression to the diversity and depth of today's Latino-American community.

The NewWorks Lab, developed and honed for over a decade, provides an opportunity for Latino playwrights of significant promise to advance their works-in-progress through workshops leading to public presentations. The lab creates a supportive professional environment for playwrights, directors, actors, and other theater artists, encouraging them to experiment, take risks, and collaborate.

Performances will be Wednesday June 1st through Sunday June 26th: Tuesday through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 5pm. (Special performance Monday June 6th at 8pm; no performance Wednesday June 8th).
Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at www.intartheatre.org or by calling 212/352-3101. Performances will take place at INTAR's theater space (500 West 52nd Street, on the 4th Floor).
For more information, visit INTAR on the web at www.intartheatre.org.

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