MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT
By Caridad Svich
Some plays are a quiet revolution about loud things. Some plays are about the stories we carry in our bones.
This play is a film: a documentary about what people remember about dictatorships where they grew up and how they left and how they survived. An enactment of seven startling, personal interviews, inspired by true stories. A rebellious look at where we’ve been and where we are right now.
2022 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination.
2022 Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.
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Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement. Her work has been seen in print, live and virtual stages at diverse venues across the US and abroad. Key plays in her repertoire include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls…, Red Bike and The House of the Spirits (based on Isabel Allende’s novel). Theatrical & transmedia world premieres in 2021-22: The Book of Magdalene at Main Street Theater, Houston, Theatre: a love story at Know Theatre, Cincinnati, The House on the Lagoon, based on Rosario Ferre’s novel, at GALA Hispanic Theatre in Washington D.C. Eva Luna, based on Isabel Allende’s novel, at Repertorio Espanol in NYC, Ushuaia Blue at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and Bernarda Alba, the opera, at Cleveland Opera Theater. Among her recognitions are an American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize, the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and National Latino Playwriting Award (which she has received twice). She has edited and/or authored several books on theatre, most recently Toward a Future Theatre published by Methuen Drama. Her second feature film Abilene (as screenwriter) is currently in post-production.
Vivia Font is a creative collaborator, actress, educator, director and producer. In August- Coming Up Cuban (audiobook). NYC and regional credits include villa (PlayCo), Recent Alien Abductions (PlayCo), PlayOn! (Classic Stage), Fernando (The Ice Factory), Romeo & Juliet (NY Classical), The Tenth Muse, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Richard III, As You Like It, Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Globe), Mariela in the Desert (Denver Center), Native Gardens (MRT) and more. Film/TV: FBI: Most Wanted, For Life, “Love, Repeat”, One Life to Live. Vivia teaches acting, voice & speech, and performance as vehicle for social, political, and environmental awareness/action, with focuses on Latin America and elsewhere at Princeton University, NYU- Playwright’s Horizons, and Marymount Manhattan College. She produces and acts with the Princeton Actors Collective, & Among Trees and is an artistic associate with NY Classical Theatre, and a proud member of The Actors Center. www.viviafont.com
Frank Wood won both the Tony Award and the Drama League Award for Sideman. He went on to play the role of Gene on London’s West End and in Australia. Broadway credits include The Great Society, Network, The Iceman Cometh, Clybourne Park, August, Osage County, Born Yesterday, and Hollywood Arms. Off-Broadway credits include The Perplexed at Manhattan Theatre Club, In The Blood at Signature Theatre, The Bablon Line at Lincoln Center, and Spring Awakening at The Atlantic. Film credits include Joker, Detroit, Gold, St. Vincent, and Changeling. TV credits include Prodigal Son, Blacklist, Modern Family, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Girls, Grey’s Anatomy, and Law and Order: SUV.
Bhavesh Patel has starred on Broadway in The Nap, Present Laughter opposite Kevin Kline and in the original cast of the Tony-winning War Horse at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway credits include Indian Ink at Roundabout and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Public's Shakespeare in the Park. He was featured opposite Matthew McConaughey in the film Gold and has recurred or guested on all the major NYC TV series including The Good Wife, Madam Secretary, New Amsterdam, The Mysteries of Laura, Bull, Blue Bloods and White Collar. Education: NYU Grad Acting.
Margaret Odette played ‘Hero’ in The Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare in the Park, which PBS recorded for Great Performances (AUDELCO Nom, Featured Actress). She’s also performed at The Rattlestick, Williamstown, Long Wharf, and The Geffen, among others. In TV, Margaret stars as Sasha Snow in the Netflix series Sex/Life. Other Select Film/TV: Boogie (Focus Features); Sleeping with Other People (IFC Films); Instinct, Elementary (cbs). Upcoming: The Independent (Park Pictures), Step Up: Highwater (Starz). Margaret sits on the board of The 52nd Street Project children’s theater. Education: BA Brown University, MFA, NYU Tisch.
Annie Henk has appeared in several TV shows including Bull, The Blacklist, Longmire, and High Maintenance, as well as the films That’s What She Said (Sundance - 2012), White (Tribeca Film Festival - 2011), and Entre Nos (Tribeca Film Festival - 2009). Theatre credits include City of No Illusions, Triggered, The Rafa Play, Cute Activist, and To the Bone.
Victor Almanzar is a New York based actor who came from the Dominican Republic at an early age. He appeared as Oswaldo in the Pulitzer prize winning production of Between Riverside and Crazy at The Atlantic Theater, Second Stage Theater (NYC) and The Steppenwolf Theatre (CHICAGO). He appeared as Oscar at The Steppenwolf Theater production of Grand Concourse. Victor also appeared as Luis in the Huntington Theater production of Man in the Ring (Boston). He completed a lead role in the feature film 11:55 (SHOWTIME), recurring roles in Homeland as Lieutenant Wenzel, Power as Arturo (STARZ), and Empire as Big Heavy (FOX), a supporting role in the feature film Brawl in Cell Block 99 (XYZ Films), guest star roles in Blue Bloods (CBS), in Chicago PD (NBC), in High Maintenance (HBO), and a role in LFE (a pilot for CBS). Before turning his attention to acting, Victor was in the United States Marine Corp, where he served in Kosovo and Iraq. Since then, he has worked on the New York stage Regional Theaters and in London. He was nominated for The Lucille Lortel Award for his role in Between Riverside and Crazy and for an Irne award for his role in Man in the Ring. Victor received his MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University and is now a proud lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Labyrinth Theater Company.
Keren Lugo: A graduate of NYU Tisch's MFA Program, Keren Lugo has been seen on the stage everywhere from Universidad de Puerto Rico, to The Public Theater, to Yale Rep. In recent years, she's been known on the silver screen in hits such as Orange is the New Black, The Americans, and New Amsterdam. Off Broadway: At the Wedding (LCT3), Privacy, Romeo y Julieta (The Public Theatre), Actually, We’re F*cked (Cherry Lane Theatre), Two Mile Hollow (Women’s Project). Regional: Girls, Scenes From Court Life (Yale Repertory Theater), Water by The Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Men on Boats (Baltimore Center Stage), Women of Padilla (Two River Theater), Henry V, Our Town (Chautauqua Theater Festival).
Ava Yaghmaie is so thrilled to creatively support the development of new, timely, and necessary theatre at The Workshop Theatre. Yaghmaie is a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. Favorite acting credits at CMU include Bernadette in Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons and Helen of Troy in Tiger at The Gates. Ava recently completed shooting a limited series for FX on Hulu called Fleishman is in Trouble based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s best-selling novel of the same name. A couple things that she is passionate about are vocal jazz singer, filmmaking, and getting involved with the healing power that the arts holds. She is currently in post-production for the short film she wrote, directed, and produced called “7 Planes” inspired by the horrific political event of the 2017 Travel Ban. She also is a co-founder of “Harmony Pittsburgh,” a Pittsburgh sanctioned performing arts club fostering relationships between individuals with and without special needs of all ages. Here’s to changing and challenging the industry to put forth stories that represent the American theatre of today.