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I believe that everyone has a story that will stop your heart but people have stopped telling them because we’ve stopped listening. Through my autobiographical solo work it’s my hope that people will recognize that our stories have a way of telling the truth and connecting us to who we are, where we come from and who we can become. Most importantly, I believe our stories connect us with each other.
Arlene Malinowski is an actor/playwright who views
her solo work as an extension of the social justice issues
she has been committed to for the last 25 years. Her
four solo shows Til Deaf Do Us Part, Kicking the Habit,
Or Forever Hold Your Peace and What
Does the Sun Sound Like have been produced and
performed in venues nationwide. Her work has been honored
with an LA Theatre Ovations nomination, an LA Weekly Award
and a Garland Award. Aiming
for Sainthood is her first commission for 16th Street
Theater.
As an actor, Arlene has appeared in By The Music of the
Spheres at the Goodman Theatre as well as Live Bait's
Fillet of Solo and Estrogen Fest. Favorite roles in
LA include Lovers and Other Strangers, Chapter Two, One
Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest with Deaf West, and the critically
acclaimed Solos in Harmony and In A Different
Voice.
Arlene is also a writer/performer with the nationally touring,
multicultural show A Slice of Rice, Frijoles &
Greens which was honored with the White House Award
for the Initiative on Race. She is a founding member of the
literary ensemble In So Many Words which
has performed at the Victory Garden's Biograph and she produces
a spoken word salon called Speak Easy-Speak Hard.
Arlene'ss television credits include: ER, CSI, The Practice,
The Division & X Files. She teaches solo writing/performing
in L.A., S.F. and Chicago. She has been a contributing
writer for Selling Lemonade for Free and
The Week Behind and is a Resident Playwright
at Chicago Dramatists. soloshow@earthlink.net |
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