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Immigrants' Theatre Project
and Lower East Side Tenement Museum
present
New Works by SALAAM
a potpourri of voices and images curated by Geeta Citygirl
as part of the series
American Dreams IV: Plays about NYC & the Immigrant Experience
featuring:

Vijai Nathan's
Boy Meets Girl (excerpt from her one-woman-show, "Good Girls Don't, But Indian Girls Do.")
Vijai breaks every taboo as she exposes the underbelly of an Indian American family.  From discovering sex in a strict Hindu household to trying to fit in to her Jewish neighborhood, Vijai finds out what it means to be American.

Jeet Thayil's
Afloat, About the Author, It Wasn't Until the Lawyer Told Me
subway rides and remembering bombay in nyc

Sunita S. Mukhi's
Kaleidoscope and Its Refractions
a series of musings and amusings.

Julie Dulani
a self-identified desi-dyke kweer, spits the truth fiercely and unapologetically with some passionate original material including Trained, What does it mean to be Amerikan?, Internalized and South Asian (In)visibility

Julio Alexi Genao's
The Happiness Proxy
directed by Geeta Citygirl
A whimsical look at the often-bizarre lengths to which two women of color will go to attain their unique and peculiar brands of urban American happiness.  PROXY explores the various (and often humorous) means many people employ in their not-always-openly rationalized quests for assimilation into worlds seemingly beyond their reach.
with Geeta Citygirl, Yolanda Hester and Arun Nava

Immigrants' Theatre Project Artistic Director, Marcy Arlin
Stage Manager, Alex Anderson
Lighting Designer, Christopher Weston

Lower East Side Tenement Theater
97 Orchard Street
between Broome & Delancey
Lower East Side, Manhattan, NYC
Admission $6.00

Reservations highly recommended:
212-431-0233 x 440
Thursday evening at 8pm

http://www.tenement.org

Subway directions to 97 Orchard Street:
F to Delancey Street or
J, M, or Z to Essex Street.

Walk two blocks away from the Williamsburg Bridge (west) to Orchard Street, turn left and walk one block south to Broome Street.
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Immigrants' Theatre Project presents professional theatre about the immigrant experience to develop intercultural understanding through the universality of individual immigrant lives.  Since its founding in 1988 by Marcy Arlin, ITP has presented over 70 new plays from over 60 nations and ethnicities.  ITP sponsored Aurorae Khoo's play Double Auntie Waltz (2000 Kennedy Center Fund), and won 1995 Vineyard SPACE Fund Grant.  ITP presents workshops in the public schools, NYC libraries and universities.  The Festival, Unexpected Journeys, featured plays by women from Armenia, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Australia, the U.S. (cf April 2002, American Theatre).

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is "to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America."  The Lower East Side Tenement Museum was chartered in 1988. The heart of the Museum is the tenement at 97 Orchard Street. Located on Manhattan's Lower East Side, 97 Orchard was home to an estimated 7,000 people from over 20 nations from 1863 to 1935. In 1998, President Clinton and the United States Congress designated the Museum a National Historic Area affiliated with the National Park Service. 97 Orchard Street had been named a National Historic Landmark and a featured property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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SALAAM is a not-for-profit professional theatre company celebrating South Asian American artistic excellence through creative risk-taking and experimentation that challenges all boundaries, connects all peoples and links all the arts.

Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
SALAAM  (South Asian League of Artists in AMerica)
http://www.SALAAMtheatre.org