ADRIANA SEVAN’S NEW PLAY ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE STAGED IN U.S.
PanARMENIAN.Net
16.03.2009 22:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Adriana Sevan’s play about the Armenian Genocide of
1915 to be staged in US Los 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.