Jeton Neziraj

Meet the playwrights who are contributing to the Around-the-Globe Chain Play.

Jeton Neziraj (Kosovo) has written over fiftee plays that have been staged and performed widely in Europe as well as in the USA. His plays and his writings have been translated and published in 13 languages. Neziraj is the founder and the director of Qendra Multimedia, a cultural production company based in Prishtina.

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Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.

Mixkaela Villalon

Meet the playwrights who are contributing to the Around-the-Globe Chain Play.

Mixkaela Villalon (The Philippines) is a playwright and a fictionist whose works have been published in various anthologies. She is a graduate student of the University of the Philippines struggling to complete her Master's degree in Creative Writing in Filipino. She has had two plays staged for the Virgin Labfest Theater Festival at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, while her play Streetlight Manifesto debuted as a stage reading at the hotINK Theater Festival at the LARK in New York. Currently, she is a scriptwriter for a local television network and teaches Creative Writing for Video Games at a local collage.

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Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.

2013 World Theatre Events Map

Check out TCG's map of World Theatre Day events from around the globe.



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For more info go to the TCG website.

Van Badham

Meet the playwrights who are contributing to the Around-the-Globe Chain Play.

Van Badham (Australia) is a playwright, novelist, screenwriter, critic, social commentator, broadcaster, dramaturg, director and cabaret performer. She has been called “a major talent” by The Guardian, “the brilliant Australian playwright” by The Independent and “one of the leading voices of her generation” by TimeOut London. Van was based in London for 10 years; here, her achievements included winning the NSDF International Play Script Competition and Sunday Times Harold Hobson Award for Drama Criticism, selection for the Summer Play Festival New York and national tours of her work supported by the Arts Council UK. She received commissions from Nabokov, Floodtide, LAMDA, Oxford Playhouse, the Royal Court and the BBC, and trained in writing for television on attachment with Holby City. From 2009-2011, Van was Literary Manager of the Finborough Theatre, London. In 2011, Van returned to her native Australia to take up an appointment to her present position as Artistic Associate (Writing) at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre. In Australia, she has been selected for three National Play Festivals, won a Premier’s Award for her play Black Hands / Dead Section and won numerous other national honours and awards for playwriting and screenwriting. Presently, she is completing the second volume in the three-book Book of the Witch novel saga for Pan Macmillan Australia. She writes occasional columns for many publications and in 2011 was co-host of a literary programme for ABC radio. Internationally, Van’s work has been staged in the USA, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Slovenia and Switzerland, and her 2011 play, How It Is Or As You Like It was staged at the Rijkstheater, Stockholm, Sweden in August 2012. Van is on twitter @vanbadham, and more information is available on her website at www.vanbadham.com.

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Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.

Bekah Brunstetter

Meet the playwrights who are contributing to the Around-the-Globe Chain Play.

Bekah Brunstetter (Los Angeles, USA) plays include A Long and Happy Life (Upcoming, Naked Angels), Be a Good Little Widow (ARS NOVA, Spring 2011; COLLABORACTION, Fall 2011), House of Home (Williamstown Theater Festival, ROUGH reading Series), OOHRAH! (Atlantic Theater, 2009, Steppenwolf Garage / Livewire Productions, 2012), and Miss Lilly Gets Boned (Lark Playwrights Week 2009, Finborough Theater, June 2010; Ice Factory, July 2012). She is a New York New Voices Fellow through the Lark Play Development Center, a member of The Primary Stages Writer’s Group and the Naked Radio writing team. She is an alumni of the Women's Project Writer's Lab, the Ars Nova Play Group, and the Playwright's Realm.  She is currently working on an EST Sloan commission, and just finished working with Craig Wright on a new MTV series, Underemployed.  BA UNC Chapel Hill; MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. http://www.bekahbrunstetter.com

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Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.

Dominique Morisseau

Meet the playwrights who are contributing to the Around-the-Globe Chain Play.

Dominique Morisseau (New York, USA) a writer and actress, is recent alumni of the 2011 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab, and the Lark Playwrights Workshop. Her play, Detroit ’67, will receive a world premiere in the 2012-2013 season of the Public Theater, which will be presented in association with the Classical Theatre of Harlem. In September 2012, her play Sunset Baby had its world premiere at the Gate Theater in London, UK. Dominique’s inaugural play, Follow Me To Nellie’s, was developed at the 2010 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and produced at Premiere Stages in July 2011. Her produced one-acts include: Third Grade (FTT Festival), Black at Michigan (Cherry Lane Studio/DUTF), Socks, Roses Are Played Out and Love and Nappiness (Center Stage, ATH). Dominique’s commissions include: love.lies.liberation (The New Group), Bumrush (Hip Hop Theater Festival) and The Masterpiece (Harlem9/HSA).  Dominique is currently developing a 3-play cycle on her hometown of Detroit, entitled “The Detroit Projects”.  The first play in the series, Detroit ’67, was developed at The Public Theater and was a finalist for the 2011 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. The second play in the series, Paradise Blue, was developed June 2011 at the Voice and Vision Retreat, the Hansberry Project at ACT in Seattle, and at Dartmouth with New York Theatre Workshop. Her work has also been published in NY Times bestseller - “Chicken Soup for the African American Soul”.  Dominique is a Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honoree, a two-time NAACP Image Award recipient, a runner-up for the 2011 Princess Grace Award, a recipient of the Elizabeth George commission from South Coast Rep, a commendation from the Primus Prize by the American Theatre Critics Association, and the winner of the 2012 Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playrwright Award by National Theatre Conference. Dominique is also the 2012 PoNY (Playwrights of New York) Fellow.

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Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.

World Theatre Day links

World Theatre Day has been celebrated around the globe since 1961.

Do you have WTD festivities in your area?

Here are some of our favorite WTD websites:

• International Theatre Institute's Official World Theatre Day website
• Theatre Communications Group (TCG)
• League of Chicago Theatres WTD activities
• World Theatre Day Facebook Page
• Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance WTD Page

AND Of course our pages

• The NYC World Theatre Day website
• The NYC World Theatre Day Facebook Page

Celebrate Local Theatre Globally

"World Theatre Day isn’t about creating a global theatre experience. It’s about celebrating the local theatre experience globally. World Theatre Day is an acknowledgement that we are all doing this thing that we love.

And the internet allows us to share those local celebrations and revel in the fact that we’re not alone in our pursuit, and that no matter how many times they try to prove it to us mathematically, theatre is not dead."

                                                                                       -- Travis Bedard, 2009

Play Travels Around-the-Globe

Want to know where our Around-the-Globe Chain Play is?

We've mapped all the stops that this play will take as it whizzes around the world.



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Want to see the end result?

Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.

World Theatre Day 2013

World Theatre Day 2013 will be celebrated around the world on Wednesday, March 27th.  However here in NYC, we celebrate WTD for an entire week March 23 - 30th.

There are so many amazing activities to Co:

• The Around the Globe Chain Play
  In honor of World Theatre Day, 16 playwrights from around the world will contribute to this play. Playwrights include: Dominique Morisseau (USA, NYC), Bekah Brunstetter (USA, Los Angeles), Van Badham (Australia), Mixkaela Villalon (Philippines), Janice Poon (Hong Kong), Abdelrahem Alawji (Lebanon), Jeton Neziraj (Kosovo), John Freedman (Russia), Ulrike Syha (Germany),  Enver Husicic (Netherlands), Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria), Beatriz Cabur (Spain), Sarah Grochala (UK),  Sigtryggur Magnason (Iceland), Caridad Svich (USA, NYC) and one TBA.
  
  The final script will be given a stage reading on March 27th at 7:00 PM. The reading will take place at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036). The reading will be directed by Doug Howe, Artistic Director of the NYC based theatre company The Internationalist.
  
  This event is FREE, but reservations are suggested. To make reservations go to www.eventbrite.com
  
  
• Reception
  Following the Chain Play reading on 3/27 a reception will be held at the Lark Play Development Center where a number of NYC theatre luminaries will read the International Theatre Institute’s World Theatre Day Message.
  
  
• SPLAT Performance (Site-specific Public Large Acts of Theatre)
  More Details Soon
  
  
• Lots of Performances
  Performances around the city will be celebrating this global event by including the International Theatre Institute’s World Theatre Day Message in their programs during the WTD week (3/23 - 3/27)
  
  If you have a production up 3/23 - 3/27 and want to be a part of the festivities, join the coalition.
  
  
• The Message
  This year International Theatre Institute’s World Theatre Day Message will be written by Dario Fo, the Italian playwright, director, actor and composer.
  
  
• NYCWTD Blog
  Here on our blog, we will:
  
  • Follow the Around the Globe Chain Play by posting the bios of each of the playwrights and the script as it comes in.
  • We are also asking readers to send photos of their theatres and productions to nycwtd@gmail.com and we will post them here on our blog
  • We will post photos of the SPLAT performances and update you on all of the NYCWTD activities.
  • And of course we will be posting the ITI WTD message.

Please keep checking in and you can also follow us on Facebook and on Twitter (@nycwtd)to keep up-to-date!