Four emerging playwrights tackle one of the greatest short stories ever written, "Hills Like White Elephants," in an exploration to discover what's really being said in all those pregnant pauses.
A benefit to support Fluid Motion Theater & Film
Featuring new work by Nora Chau Jesse Jou Tina Lee Caridad Svich
UNSAID raffle items include: * Tickets to the opening night of Ethan Hawke's new play, "Things We Want" * Tickets to a live taping of The Colbert Report * Passes for free admission to MoMA
Special thanks to The New Group, The Colbert Report, MoMA, and Barbara Toy.
Cast AndrewEisenman(Ensemble) Andrew 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, Living Image Arts, among others. TV & Film: “The Sopranos,” Rigodon, Cardiac Arrest, Exit and The Vanished. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from San Francisco State University and his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Brandeis University.
NedraMcClyde(Ensemble) Nedra McClyde holds an MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School. New York credits include Screen Play (dir: Jim Simpson, Flea Theatre), Macbeth (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Relationtrip (Winner: 2006 Sam French Festival), Victor Woo (NYC Fringe 2007), I Am Not a Chimpanzee (Midtown International Theater Festival 2007), Liberty (Workshop Theatre), Happy Birthday Madam Alberta (Cherry Lane), recurring roles on "As the World Turns" and "One Life to Live," and several films. Please visit nedramcclyde.com.
RoseanneMedina(Ensemble) A recent transfer from the Washington, DC theater scene. A special thanks to Fluid Motion for the opportunity. Regional: Our Lady of 121st Street (Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theater); Frank Loesser's Senor Discretion Himself (ArenaStage); The Russian National Postal Service, A Class Act, Prometheus (Studio Theatre) ; The Who's Tommy (Studio Secondstage), Moliere's The Learned Ladies (Catalyst). Training: Barnard College, William Esper at Esper Studios. For more info visit www.roseannemedina.com. A proud member of Actors Equity.
Jose JoaquinPerez(Ensemble)
Jose Joaquin Perez is a proud graduate of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. He has worked at Second Stage, Repetorio Espanol, PRTT, INTAR, Transport Group, and New Dramatist. He was last seeing as Raul in LIA's Americanize at Theatre Row. He has been seen regionally at Hartford Stage, Hartford TheatreWorks, and the Repetory Theatre of St. Louis. He is a proud member of the Actor's Collective at INTAR.
AndyPlace(Ensemble) Andy was most recently seen at The Gene Frankel Theater in George F. Walker's Zastrozzi, directed by Felix Ivanov. He has worked with Hartford Stage Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Qunatum Theatre, TheaterWorksUSA, Pittsburgh Playhouse Rep., Unseam'd Shakespeare Co., and is a company member with Saratoga Shakespeare. He received his B.F.A. from the Hartt School, and currently studies with Felix Ivanov. A proud member of Actor's Equity Association.
Production MichelleChen(Producer) Michelle Chen is a New York City-based theater, film, and television producer. She is Producing Director of Fluid Motion Theater & Film and Associate Producer at Thirteen/WNET. She received an Emmy for her work on the PBS Kids show CYBERCHASE.
ChristineSimpson(Director) Christine Simpson is a Korean-American writer/director based in Manhattan. As a director, Ms. Simpson has directed with Ma-Yi Theatre Company, New Georges, Reverie Productions, Peculiar Works Project, Blue Heron Theatre, Bumblebee & Blackbird Productions, Present Tense Productions, Fluid Motion Theater & Film, Happy Lady Productions, at The Public Theater, and the NYC International Fringe Festival. Plays penned by Ms. Simpson have been produced at the Blue Heron Theatre, Baruch Performing Arts Center, the New York City International Fringe Festival (2003 and 2006), and Theatre Row. She has also written and directed two short films that have screened globally. In 2005, Ms. Simpson was selected as one of five filmmakers to compete in the Asian American International Film Festival Michelob Light Music Video Contest. In 2006, she was named one of nytheatre.com's People of the Year.
Writers NoraChau(Playwright) Nora is a NYC writer intrigued by all forms of writing. She is a former ABC/Disney New Talent grant recipient for screenwriting. She is a current member of the Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab. Her short play “Landromat” is going to be published in Smith & Kraus’ The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2007, 3 or More Actors next fall. Her new full length play “The Flight of The Bees” will be read in November as part of the Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab Festival.She is grateful to Fluid Motion Theater & Film for including her work in their benefit.
JesseJou(Playwright) Jesse's directing credits include The Quest by Mrinalini Kamath (Fluid Motion); My Mom Across America by Tina Lee (Kitchen Theater, Ithaca, NY); Take on Me: Adoption, Addiction, and a-ha by Christine Simpson(2006 NY International Fringe Festival); and Greyhounds by Daryl Lisa Fazio (WICKSHAW Productions, The Lion Theater, Theater Row). He is currently studying for his MFA in directing at the Yale School of Drama. Thanks to Christine and Michelle for inviting him to contribute a piece to the Unsaid project.
TinaLee(Playwright) Tina has been a writer since age eight and discovered her love of acting while procrastinating in graduate school for fiction writing. Writing one-person shows became a perfect marriage of both interests, and she's performed them in theaters, schools, and libraries all around the New York area. She’s been published in Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Voices (Asian American Writers Workshop, 2002), Drive: Women’s True Stories from the Open Road (Seal Press, 2002), River City Journal, and Kalliope magazine. Her first screenplay based on the Midas myth is being produced this winter by Fluid Motion Theater & Film and she is also hard at work at a young adult novel that takes place in the 1980s. She graduated from Yale with a B.A., Sarah Lawrence College with a M.F.A. in Fiction Writing.
CaridadSvich(Playwright) Caridad is a playwright-songwriter-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish-Argentine-Croatian descent. She is the recipient of New Dramatists’ 2007 Whitfield Cook Prize for New Writing for her play Lucinda Caval, and the 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award for Magnificent Waste. She also received a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, a TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant, and has been short-listed twice for the PEN USA-West Award in Drama. Recent premieres: The Tropic of X at artheater-Cologne (Germany), Thrush at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, her adaptation of the Serbian dark comedy Huddersfield as a TUTA production at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Iphigenia…a rave fable at 7 Stages in Atlanta/GA and Son of Semele/CA, her translation of The House of Bernarda Alba at the Pearl Theatre/NY, and her multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations at 59E59 Theatre/NY and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK.
Theatre Row Studio Theatre 410 West 42nd Street 4th Floor
Monday, October 1, 2007 7:00 pm
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