New York, New York. Et Alia Theater Company will perform Running in Place by Hasnain Shaikh at Dixon Place. Featuring Ana Moioli, Giorgia Valenti and Maria-Luiza Muller. Directed by Isabella Uzcátegui and stage-managed by Gemma Allen. The play is written, produced and performed by a group of international young artists, each from a different part of the world – come support them and see what they can bring to the table!
You can order tickets here or visit our Facebook page or Instagram. General Admission tickets are $17 in advance and $20 at the door; Student tickets are $15 in advance and $17 at the door. Dixon Place is located in the Lower East Side at 161A Chrystie St, New York, NY 10002 – it has a bar inside so come and enjoy some drinks before or after the show!
Running in Place deals with mental health, love and loss. Zoe and Rebecca are playing a game of faults. Will they realise that this game has no winners? The themes of the play are dealt with in a delicate, yet a lot of times funny way.
Message from Et Alia Theater Company: “It is important for us to make this project happen because we all have struggled with the issues brought forth by the script. We have a good understanding of the story and feel a strong empathy for its characters. We believe our approach will make this a successful experience for the audience, in a way where each person will relate to the performance in a very human way”.
About the Artists
Giorgia Valenti is still energized from her run of ‘Fiction’ with 600 Highwaymen as well as working on ‘HOME’ with The Open Program of the Workcenter. She is a Senior at Tisch, NYU studying Drama and Dance. Her artistic practice is inspired by free vs. choreographed movement, the complex relationship between home and identity and the use of art as a therapeutic practice. As an international woman, Giorgia has also worked and performed in India and Italy.
Maria-Luiza Muller is a Romanian artist in New York. She graduated from NYU Tisch with a major in Drama and minor in Dance. Her most recent projects include the feature film ‘Queen Marie of Romania’ directed by Alexis Cahill Sweet, the short film ‘Skip Tantrum’ directed by Daniel Nemroff and the TV series ‘Love in NY’ directed by Matthew Russell. She also wrote an autobiographical film called ‘Where Are You From Again’
Ana Moioli is a Brazilian artist in New York. Ana started acting in Brazil, and later went to the Moscow Art Theatre School and then NYU Drama, where she is currently a senior. She’s been awarded for her performances in short films and has performed in Off-Off-Broadway. She is excited for her upcoming debut as a playwright in ‘For The Time Being’ at the NYWinterfest. She recently debuted as a filmmaker with the film ‘Bridge.’
Isabella Uzcátegui is an actor, director, filmmaker, and writer with a BFA in Drama and a BS in Psychology from NYU. Her artistic practice explores dance-theater, Grotowski-based training, and Latinx community engagement. Her recent works include her devised piece ‘Veinticino: a myth of the brain’, and a Nine Muses Entertainment short film ‘Mujer’. Isabella is a company member of Theater Mitu, with which she just toured ‘Remnant’. She has performed internationally in Panama and Costa Rica.
Gemma Judith Allan is a training actress from South Africa. In 2018 she graduated from the University of Cape Town with a degree in Political Science and English Literature. She views the protest theatre of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg as her artistic home. She has trained in Cechetti Ballet and as a vocalist. This September Gemma moved to New York and started the Professional Conservatory Programme at Stella Adler.
Hasnain Shaikh is a playwright, director, and actor from Bangalore, India. He began his career as an actor at the age of 5 and has been a part of the Bangalore theatre scene ever since. At 17, he wrote his first play ‘Perspectives’, which was well-received, and marked the beginning of his playwright journey. To date, he has written 5 plays and is an award-winning playwright pushing the boundaries of contemporary Indian theatre.
About Et Alia
Et Alia is an emerging (theater company) composed of international women who are eager to express and unite their culturally diverse backgrounds and feminist lenses through the performing arts.The group was born from its members’ shared belief in the power of theater to build connections that go beyond nationalities and labels, as well as their ambition to tell the NYC audience stories they have not heard before.
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