THE ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE: "GOING TO THE RIVER"

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Dear NYU Grad Film Community,

EST is offering NYU Grad Film Students tickets for "Gong to the River" for $12. That's a 33% discount, They will also waive the handling fees. To get the discount code for ordering tickets (online, over the phone, on the night, whenever) email me j.a.santana[at]nyu.edu and you'll get the discount.

Casting is announced for The River Crosses Rivers Festival!

We are excited to announce an amazing ensemble of actors involved in this year's festival of new works from women playwrights of color, presented by Going to the River.

"The Ensemble Studio Theatre has staked a claim as the pre-eminent home for short works by major artistic talents."
- The New York Times

If you haven't bought your tickets yet, please click here or call 866-811-4111. Tickets are $18, or see both series for just $25 with an All Rivers Pass.

THE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Click here for a performance calendar.

Series A:

THE KITCHEN or 9 1/2 Minutes of Subcontinental Absurdity by Naveen Bahar Choudhury, directed by Jamie Richards *featuring Andrew Guilarte, Seril James, Sakina Jaffrey*+ and Yasmin Kazi


RISEN FROM THE DOUGH
by France-Luce Benson, directed by Holli Harms*
featuring Dominique Morisseau+ and Kim Weston-Moran+


LADYBUG GONNA GETCHA
by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Pat Golden
featuring Adam Couperthwaite and Toks Olagundoye+


THE STEP-MOTHER
by Ruby Dee, directed by Chuck Patterson
featuring Carmen Delavallade+ and Mary E. Hodges+


ANGELS IN THE PARKING LOT
by N.N. Ewing, directed by Seret Scott
featuring Catherine Curtin*+, Peter Jay Fernandez+ and Brenda Pressley+


BANANA BEER BATH
by Lynn Nottage, directed by Talvin Wilks*
featuring Elain Graham+


RALLY
by Bridgette Wimberly, directed by Clinton Turner Davis
featuring Venida Evans+ and Erin Weems+

Series B:

TRUTH BE TOLD
by Melody Cooper, directed by Petronia Paley*
featuring Beverley Prentice+ and Shetal Shah+


DIALECTIC
by Kia Corthron, directed by Chuck Patterson
featuring Lynnese Page and Michael Louis Wells*+


HOT METHUSELAH
by J.e. Franklin, directed by Imani Douglas
featuring Vinie Burrows+, Glenn Gordon+ and Norman Matlock+


JESSE
by P.J. Gibson, directed by Lydia Fort
featuring Christopher Burris+ and Maya Lynne Robinson+


SLOPPY SECOND CHANCES
by Mrinalini Kamath, directed by Kel Haney
featuring Vedant Gokhale+ and Nandita Shenoy+


SPIRIT SEX: A PARANORMAL ROMANCE
by Desi Moreno-Penson, directed by Adam Immerwahr
featuring Jeb Kreager+, Fulvia Vergel+ and Chris Wight*+


HIS DADDY
by Cori Thomas*, directed by Stephen Fried
featuring Matthew Montelongo+ and Lindsay Smiling+

Stage Managers: B'jai Pierce-Astwood+ (PSM), Bayo+, Jo Albert,
Annie Bosworth Foley, Fulton Hodges, Sirlouis Jones+, Sean Kelso, Jonathan McCrory, Will Schneider and Rosita Timm+

* denotes EST Member

+ These Actors and Stage Manager(s) are appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
The River Crosses Rivers is an Equity-Approved Showcase.
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Want to learn more?

Click here to see an insider interview with EST member and playwright Cori Thomas, whose new one-act His Daddy is featured in Series B of The River Crosses Rivers festival!

Hear Cori talk about how her plays have been developed through Going to the River and why she is excited to be a part of this year's festival!

Click here to see the video!

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Support the Festival!

We depend on the generosity of our patrons and friends to produce high-quality, important work like The River Crosses Rivers.

Please join lead donors Tamara Tunie, Edward Bullins and S. Epatha Merkerson in supporting this ambitious festival by making a donation to support Going to the River.
Click here to donate online or click here to receive more information.
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Going to the River was founded in 1999 at the Ensemble Studio Theatre by the late Curt Dempster and Elizabeth Van Dyke, the Producing Artistic Director. The Executive Producing Director is Jamie Richards. The primary goal of Going to the River is to provide a major New York City forum in which professional African-American female playwrights may develop, refine and present their work.

Click here to order tickets to THE RIVER CROSSES RIVERS now!

The River Crosses Rivers is an Equity-Approved Showcase.

As a developmental theatre EST thrives in partnership with individual and institutional donors who believe in the company's mission and programming. EST's 2009-2010 season is funded, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, and through major gifts from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Shubert Foundation, Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund of the New York Community Trust, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The New York State Council on the Arts, The Scherman Foundation, The Tournesol Project, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Anonymous, and Jerome Foundation. EST is deeply grateful to all of its supporters and is proud to list all donors on our website and in our programs.

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