Immigrants’ Theatre Project will present Staged Readings in English of 6 new plays written by women playwrights who are the leading voices writing for the stage today in Central and Eastern Europe. ITP’s artistic director Marcy Arlin and director Gwynn MacDonald will curate these plays from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovak Republic.

1. EASTERN EUROPEAN PLAYWRIGHTS:
WOMEN WRITE THE NEW
As part of the 2012 30th Anniversary of the League of Professional Theatre Women
Thirty Plays celebration.
Presented by Immigrants’ Theatre Project in collaboration with:
Czech Center New York
Romanian Cultural Institute
Bulgarian Consulate
League of Professional Theatre Women
In 2012 Immigrants’ Theatre Project will present Staged Readings in English of 6 new plays
written by women playwrights who are the leading voices writing for the stage today in
Central and Eastern Europe. ITP’s artistic director Marcy Arlin and director Gwynn
MacDonald will curate these plays from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania,
Serbia and Slovak Republic.
The plays are selected based on artistic quality, importance in their home country (prize
winners, innovators, etc.), and interest for an American audience. The plays will be directed
professional directors and staged with professional actors. A moderator from each country
who is an expert in the current theatre scene in each country will lead a discussion after the
readings on the play the role of women in contemporary theatre in their respective countries.
When possible, the playwrights will be attending the readings.
Marcy Arlin and Gwynn MacDonald have also been commissioned to write an article for the
Slavic and Eastern European Performance journal, edited by Dr. Daniel Gerould, Lucille
Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at the CUNY
Graduate Center.

2. SUICIDE BOMBS
Written by Virag Erdos, Directed by Gwynn MacDonald
Date: Mar 12, 2012 @ 7:30
Performed at Bohemian National Hall
Czech Center New York
321 E. 73rd St.
New York, NY
www.czechcenter.com
After a bombing in the city, a detective makes inquiries about its source to a family that doesn't realize
that it is not alive. A tragicomedy. Fulbright scholar Anita Rakoczy wll lead a discussion about the play
and Hungarian women playwrights following the reading. Free admission: donation of $5.00
suggested.
KRCHEN THE IMMORTAL
Written by Eva Maliti-Franová, Directed by Marcy Arlin
Date: Mar 26, 2012 @ 7:30
Performed at Bohemian National Hall
Czech Center New York
321 E. 73rd St.
New York, NY
www.czechcenter.com
An immoral, yet immortal, old man does terrible harm to his daughter creates chaos for his family. A
metaphor for the inequities and social problems left over from communism in the not so quiescent
Slovak society. A comedy! Fulbright scholar, dramaturge and translator Katerina Bohadlova will lead
a discussion about the play and Slovak theatre after the reading. Free admission: donation of $5.00
suggested
For father performance dates please check the Immigrants’ Theatre Project website
www.immigrantstheat.org

3. Immigrants’ Theatre Project (ITP) / 2003 OBIE for Innovative Theater
is a professional nonprofit theatre company based in New York City that gives a public theatrical
voice to those who are marginalized, promotes the genre of immigrant theatre as a valid American
theatre form, and is an artistic model for intercultural relations. Founded in 1988 by Artistic Director
Marcy Arlin, ITP presents traditional and experimental plays as full productions and as readings by
and about immigrants to the U.S. and worldwide. ITP works with multicultural casts and artistic staff
from over 90 ethnicities and nations to reflect the diversity of New York and introduce immigrant and
American audiences to challenging theatre works. ITP has presented the American and/or world
premieres of over 250 plays, and in addition curates and develops artistic exchange residencies,
student and professional development workshops, consultancies for multi-cultural arts programming,
and special programs.
Notable programs: East/West/East: Vietnamese Immigrants Out of War, funded by TCG/ITI and
CEC ArtsLink, a trilingual (Czech, Vietnamese, English), binational (Czech Republic, U.S.), three-
theatre (ITP, Firehouse Theatre of Richmond, Virginia, and Divadlo Feste of Brno, Czech Republic),
about the lives of Vietnamese immigrants in the two nations, written in collaboration with playwrights
Aurorae Khoo (U.S.) and Radmila Adamova (Czech Republic); The First Time/The Sandbox, Made in
Poland Festival (59E59 Theater); 365Plays/365DaysUniversity (LPAC/PS1/MOMA), Czech Plays in
Translation (Public Theater/NYTW/Bohemian National Hall), Journey Theatre: eight-month project
with survivors of torture; Unexpected Journeys: Plays by Women from Muslim Countries (Tenement
Theatre), Difficult Dialogues: Plays about Religion (LPAC), Reinvention and Dislocation (New
Group/Martin E. Segal Theater Center), Heresy/Progress, by Sabina Berman and Matei Visniec
(HERE); Journey Theatre, a theater project with survivors of war and torture; Women Across
Borders: Plays by Women Immigrants (TenementTheater); After the Fall: Reality and the New
Romanian Theater (Martin E. Segal Theater Center); Lilac Minyan (BAX/Yiddish Book Center);
Indigenous Voices: New Aboriginal Plays (Australian Aboriginal Theater Inititative/ Smithonian
Museum); Sweet Karma, by Henry Ong (Queens Theater in the Park).

4. ITP has collaborated with the Czech Cultural
Center, Polish Cultural Institutate, Romanian
Cultural Institute, the Australian Consulate, and
many other international institutes and
embassies. It has been resident theater
company with the South Street Seaport Museum
(two years), The Tenement Museum (five years)
and has presented readings of new plays about
immigrants for over five years at the Martin E.
Segal Theater Center. During these
collaborations, ITP has hosted theater artists
from Poland, Australia, Mexico, Czech Republic
(including Radok Prize winners Petr Zelenka,
David Drabek, Egon Tobias, Lenka Lagronova,
and Iva Volankova), India, Romania, Germany,
Egypt as well as many artists from around the
United States.
Many playwrights have had their work
premiered in the United States with ITP, as
reading or full production, including Betty
Shamieh, Saviana Stanescu, Said
Sayrafiezadeh, Deborah Seidman, Sung Rno,
Kitty Chen, Sabina Berman, Matei Visniec, Yusuf
Al-Guindi, Dina Amin, among others.
For more information, contact;
Marcy Arlin
347 512 5572
immigrantstheat@aol.com