Adriana Sevan's new play about Armenian Genocide to be staged in U.S.March 16, 2009 - 22:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Adriana Sevan's play about the Armenian Genocide of 1915 to be staged in USLos Angeles Women's Theatre Festival honored the Armenian actress and playwright for her exceptional career The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival will honor five women for their exceptional career and life achievements at its Opening Night Gala on March 26 at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. Adriana Sevan will receive the Integrity Award. Her solo play "Taking Flight" debuted at the Kirk Douglas Theater in 2006 and won the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award the following year, subsequently being performed across the country. She has just received the 008 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright Award which gifts her with a generous commission to research and write a new play about her grandparent's survival of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, which will be developed by the award's host theaters: The Lark Play Development Center in New York, Silk Road Theatre Company in Chicago and Golden Thread in San Francisco. Ms. Sevan is devoted to bringing theater and girls together. She currently leads transformational mentoring workshops for at-risk adolescent girls using creative writing and improvisation as tools for girls to discover their vibrant, vital and unique voices. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |