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Friday, September 10, 2004 - 7:00 PM
doors open at 6:45pm

SALAAM Theatre
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
invites you to our fourth installation of AWAAZ
reflecting on three years since 9/11/01...
too much blood... too many tears... too much...

AWAAZ** - New Voices/ New Plays
presents a special event reading of

Richard Willett's
9/10
Directed by Eliza Beckwith.

SYNOPSIS:  9/10 tells four stories that take place the night before September 11, 2001.  It's a play about tragedy, comedy, and the timeless ability of New York City to inspire dreams.

Q&A and complimentary hors d'oeuvres and libations for your pleasure.

SALAAM Theatre
16 West 32nd Street - 10th floor
Between Fifth Avenue and Broadway
New York, NY 10001

Admission by donation: (nobody is turned away due to lack of funds)
$5 minimum, $10 suggested, $15 appreciated

Reservations RECOMMENDED:
Phone: 212.330.8097
Email: rsvp@SALAAMtheatre.org

Take time to remember the day that will remain permanently carved into our creative spirits.  It was three years ago at about this time when the city stopped.  When our eyes were opened up to the atrocities happening around the world.  We want to remember our loved ones lost...  Rest in Peace...

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: RICHARD WILLETT's plays, which in addition to 9/10 include TRIPTYCH, RANDOM HARVEST, WEEKEND AT THE WILLARD, and TINY BUBBLES, have been presented off-Broadway and at theaters across the country.  Honors include an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship, an OOBR Award, and grants from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.  For his screenplays, Richard has been a finalist for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, the New Century Writer Awards, the CineStory Screenwriting Awards, the Austin Heart of Film Screenplay Competition, and the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project at Paramount Pictures.  He is the co-artistic director of New Directions Theater (www.newdirectionstheater.org), where his play THE FLID SHOW will reopen in January 2005,  and is also the author of ten published short stories.

**AWAAZ means VOICE.
The goal of AWAAZ, other than to expose our large and diverse SALAAM audience to new and emerging writing, is to develop voices that will go on to be valuable storytellers about South Asian issues through entertaining theatricality and thereby add to the already diverse texture of the New York theatrical landscape. AWAAZ is not only to help emerging and seasoned playwrights, through staged readings and development workshops but also develop some of these plays with an eye to full productions for SALAAM Theatre's 2005 Season.  Please join us for each installment of our AWAAZ Play Reading Series.  You never know what special talents you'll meet so just mark your calendars and be part of this growing movement of artists and activists. For an energizing and engaging event, make it SALAAM time.

SALAAM Theatre - AWAAZ Team:
Geeta Citygirl, Artistic Director
Anuvab Pal, Literary Manager
Priyanka Mathew, Play Development Coordinator
Ragini Jain, Artistic Intern

SALAAM Theatre is a proud member of THAW - Theaters Against War and United for Peace and Justice.