MAGNIFICENT WASTE by Caridad Svich

(a reading) DC PREMIERE

*Special Preview reading as part of the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival

Lizzie sells shock art. Arden buys beautiful things, and a young man hungers for fame. In this decadent world of sex, booze, and pills, three friends are linked in a chain of explosive events that will irrevocably change the course of their lives. Winner of the National Latino Playwriting Award, this is the first time playwright Caridad Svich will be produced in DC.

Directed by John Moletress*

Cast:  Rick Hammerly* (Helen Hayes Award Winner for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"), Parker Drown (Helen Hayes Award Winner for "Rent"), Jennifer Phillips*, Lisa Hodsoll*, Christopher Henley

Performance: 7pm, September 6, 2010

Venue: Kennedy Center, Terrace Gallery

THE SAINT PLAYS by Erik Ehn

WORLD PREMIERE

"A saint is a human mandala- a life in a ritual shape, held up as a focus for contemplation" -Erik Ehn

At the intersection between life and death, hope and suffering, loss and redemption, we enter the world of mystical storytelling, a theatrical journey that re-imagines the historical lives of the saints in a contemporary landscape. Erik Ehn, co-founder of the Tenderloin Opera Company and RAT movement, b rings to life these fairy tales for the stage.

Directed by John Moletress*

Produced by Rick Hammerly* with Factory 449

Set/Costume Design: Greg Stevens*

Lighting Design: Cory Ryan Frank

Original Music: Tom Carman, Joshua Morgan

Sound Design: Ian Armstong

Film/Video Design: Jesse Achtenberg*

Puppet Design:  Betsy Rosen

Properties Design:  Jesse Shipley

Stage Manager: Michael Innocenti

Assistant Director: Josh Maltby

Cast:  Tom Carman, Sun King Davis, Zehra Fazal, Dexter Hamlett, Allyson Harkey, Lisa Hodsoll*, Belen Oyola-Rebaza, Betsy Rosen, Lorena Sabogal, David Lamont Wilson*

Performances: September 16-October 10, 2010

Venue: Church Street Theatre

MAR NUESTRA or OUR WIDE, WIDE SEA by Caridad Svich

DC PREMIERE, part of INTERSECTIONS Festival 2011

Caridad Svich translates Cuban playwright Alberto Pedro’s beautiful story of three women floating on a raft in the Atlantic Ocean, caught in a world somewhere between Cuba and America.

Performance: February 27, 2011 @ 7:00pm and March 6th @ 7:30pm

Venue: Atlas Performing Arts Center, Lab II

MAGNIFICENT WASTE by Caridad Svich

WORLD PREMIERE, Full Production

Sponsored by Cultural Development Corporation and Creative Communities Fund

Directed by John Moletress*

Performances: April 2011

Venue: Flashpoint, Mead Theatre

Factory Made: a reading series

Second annual play readings series

Performance: May 2011

Venue: TBA

*Factory 449 Company Member