16th Street Theater

WILL DUNNE
THE ASCENSION OF CARLOTTA

"The soul of a society may be mirrored most by those who live on its fringes."

Will Dunne is an award-winning playwright whose works have been staged internationally in
three languages. He is one of only five playwrights to be selected three consecutive times for the U.S. National Playwrights Conference under the Artistic Direction of Lloyd Richards.

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ARLENE MALINOWSKI
AIMING FOR SAINTHOOD

"Everyone has a story that will stop your heart."

Arlene Malinowski is an actor/playwright whose four solo shows have been produced in venues nationwide and has been honored with an LA Theatre Ovations nomination, an LA Weekly Award and a Garland Award. Arlene is also a writer/performer with a nationally touring, multicultural show.

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TANYA SARACHO
KITA Y FERNANDA

"I want to complicate the image of what a Latina woman is."

Tanya Saracho was born in Mexico and is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Teatro Luna: Chicago’s all Latina Theatre. Plays include Our Lady of The Underpass, Quita Mitos and Aparición. She is at work on a project titled 27 based on 27 interviews with Latin American/Iberian women.

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THE ASCENSION OF CARLOTTA
by Will Dunne
Directed by Ann Filmer
April 4 - May 4, 2008
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Alice Kowalski works at a 7-11. Romeo Brown’s dream is to rob a 7-11. Drunk on love during the last springtime of the 20th century, they travel the land of Berwyn seeing if two people from two different planets can be both armed and engaged. Directed by Ann Filmer.

	AIMING FOR SAINTHOOD by Arlene Malinowski July 10 - 20, 2008 Part of the Words in Motion Festival Buy Tickets / Get More Info When her Deaf mother gets cancer, a middle-aged woman moves back into her childhood room with two questions, "Where is God?" and "Who took my KISS poster?!" Aiming for Sainthood is part two of her trilogy beginning with What Does the Sun Sound Like? See both shows Sat July 12 & 19! ASL interpretation July 19.

KITA Y FERNANDA
by Tanya Saracho
Directed by Ann Filmer
September 25– October 25, 2008
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Kita y Fernanda is a look at class, immigration and women's friendships as it follows the lives of two girls growing up in the same household; one the privileged daughter of a rich Mexican family living in Texas the other the child of an undocumented maid. Directed by Ann Filmer.