WAXING WEST got published!

My "Waxing West" - winner of 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Full-Length Play got published by United Stages.

The book launch was at Drama Bookshop and it was fun. Lots of peeps. Food. Books. Friends. New York. What else is there?

check out: www. unitedstages.com

Vicious Dogs on Premises

Check out THE INTERVIEW that MARTIN DENTON did
with SAVIANA STANESCU and DAN SAFER - here's the link to the podcast:

http://www.nytheatrecast.com/pcast/nythpod222.mp3

I got commissioned by Dan Safer's dance-theatre company Witness Relocation to write a script that interweaves a love story with stuff connected to dogs, the history of torture&interrogation, dictatorship, the republic of Dogmachina, etc... I did some heavy research, as you may imagine (during the Christmas break, exasperating my cousins in Connecticut) and the result is DOG LUV, a script you'll see combined with all sorta wild&imaginative&conceptual movement, if you come to see the show. It opens on May 29 at Richard Foreman's ONTOLOGICAL THEATRE. See info below.

WITNESS RELOCATION presents
in association with THE ONTOLOGICAL-HYSTERIC INCUBATOR...

Vicious Dogs on Premises is a new dance/theater piece about deciding between cruelty and love, dog training, having too many choices, torture, following instructions, and shifting loyalties. It may include such events as: Butoh Dancing or Imaginary Alpine Folk Dancing or Gestures an Angry Lawyer Makes in Court. It could include people talking about Threatening Things Said to Children or Efficient Fuel Sources. You might see people decide between Balancing On One Foot or Falling Down Repeatedly. With a script by award winning playwright Saviana Stanescu.

performed/ co-choreographed by HEATHER CHRISTIAN, SEAN DONOVAN, MIKE MIKOS, LAURA BERLIN STINGER
script by SAVIANA STANESCU
set/ lights JAY RYAN
video KAZ PHILLIPS
sound RYAN MAEKER
costumes PANDORA ANDREA GASTELUM
press JONATHAN SLAFF
director/ choreographer DAN SAFER

"super-charged performances that mash modern dance, cabaret, punk rock and experimental theater into one energetic live show that is never quite the same twice." - Austin American Statesman, TX

May 29 - June 14
Tues, Thurs - Sat 8pm
Sunday, June 1 - 8pm
final Fri/Sat - extra shows at 10 pm

tix $17, students $12

for tickets: call the # above (theatermania) or go to www.witnessrelocation.org or http://www.ontological.com

AND don't forget to check out THE INTERVIEW that MARTIN DENTON did
with SAVIANA STANESCU and DAN SAFER - here's the link to the podcast:

http://www.nytheatrecast.com/pcast/nythpod222.mp3

Also check out the episode guide at

http://www.nytheatrecast.com/wordpress/archives/97

Pen World Voices, KGB Bar and Romanian poets in NYC

OK, Pen World Voices happened in NYC and we (I and a bunch of cool and interesting Romanian poets of various ages and voices/styles: Elena Vladareanu, Constantin Vica, Razvan Tupa, Dan Sociu, Nora Iuga, Eugen Suman, Vasile Leac, Nina Cassian) had poetry readings at KGB BAR and RCINY.
I curated the reading at KGB - yea, I thought it would be fun and ironic to read there with the Romanian poets. What did "curating" mean: got us scheduled/approved there, it's a selective literary venue - it's not like everybody can read there, got my friend Sharon Mesmer on board to co-host cuz I knew the Romanian writers wouldn't be happy just with me, so I also invited Brandon from Calque who's gonna publish an issue with Romanian poetry in translation, meaning: with them, not with me cuz I write in English, but anyway I'm happy that the Romanian poets who came here, very talented people, most of them for the first time in NYC, were excited by the KGB Bar Reading and the responses they got. Razvan Tupa posted short videos with our readings on YouTube, here's the link to my GOOGLE ME! poem and you'll find there links to the other poets too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YDs5YZVB-w

GOOGLE ME!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YDs5YZVB-w