News!
 | Cristina Alicea has been awarded a
2010 Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant
of up to $5000 to support MTWorks' production
of "Barrier Island"!
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Upcoming
Cristina Alicea will be directing MTWorks' world premiere production of "Barrier Island" the first play in the Galveston Cycle. A new trilogy by emerging playwright David Stallings. It will be presented at Center Stage April 30th-May 22nd, 2010. More information to come.Synopsis:
Barrier Island tackles the nature of a fearless community
that chooses to stake
their lives on the strength of the historic Galveston seawall -- built
to protect the island from natural disasters -- as they await the
arrival of
one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the United States since
Katrina, Hurricane Ike. Nominated for the 2009 Weissberger Award
(Williamstown Theatre Festival), Barrier Island is the first play in “The Galveston Cycle.”
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Recently
Cristina
recently directed a staged reading of "A Song for St. Michael's" that
premiered on January 24th as a part of the 2010 National NewBorn
Festival. Details Below.
Synopsis:
"A
Song for St. Michael's" by emerging playwright David Stallings is the
second play in a new trilogy called "The Galveston Cycle"
which follows a community of people living in Galveston, Texas before
and after the wake of Hurricane Ike. "A Song for St. Michael's"
takes place in
the days just after the storm, when a young priest is sent to help fix
up the local public school that has been devasted by Ike and uncovers the death of a local boy and drowned secrets that have kept Saint Michael's Catholic School afloat all
these years.
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Cristina recently produced MTWorks' benefit performance of "Big Love" by Chuck Mee on October 18th, 2009. Details Below.
MTWorks One Night Only Benefit Event
4 Directors. 4 Approaches. Charles Mee's BIG LOVE
Directors Jeremy Bloom ("Stylish and inventive"-Theatermania; "Appropriately Pure"-New Yorker), and 2009 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab members Will Fulton, Annie G. Levy and Gabriella Willenz -alongside a cast of 36 actors- display their creative aesthetics, as they each sequentially approach a quadrant of...
Charles Mee's BIG LOVE
A tale of fleeing brides, forced marriages & murdered grooms.
Where & When
Manhattan Children's Theatre
52 White Street
New York, New York 10013 October 18, 2009
7:30PM
Tickets are $20
available at www.mtworks.org
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Cristina is a member of the 2009 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab
Featured artists and guest speakers included: Lev Dodin, Ntozake Shange, Kate Whoriskey, Andy Paris, Sarah Ruhl, and Sheldon Epps, among others.
