4,380 Nights with Busboys and Poets Books and Signature Theatre
Date and Time
Feb 1, 2018 5:00 pm
Location
Shirlington
4251 S. Campbell Ave, Arlington, Virginia, 22206
Feb 1, 2018 5:00 pm
Shirlington
Annalisa Dias delivers a searing and timely critique of power, humanity and what it means to be an American in the world premiere of 4,380 Nights. Part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, January 16- February 18 at Signature Theatre. Join us Busboys and Poets Books and Signature Theatre for readings from the brand new play and a Q&A with Annalisa Dias and Director Kathleen Akerley.Â
Annalisa Dias (Playwright) WRITING: One Word More, The Last Allegiance, A Legacy of Chains, Crooked Figure, Consider the Dust, Matanuska, Coal, the earth that is sufficient, and Servant of the Wind. DEVISING: Wit's End Puppets: Malevolent Creatures; banished? productions: Tyger; Theater Alliance: I Love DC. DIRECTING: The Salima Project (film). Annalisa Dias’ work has been produced or developed by The Welders, Theater Alliance, the Phillips Collection, The Gulfshore Playhouse, the Mead Theatre Lab, The Hub Theatre, Spooky Action Theater, Tron Theatre (Glasgow), and Theatre 503 (London). Acting Creative Producer and Producing Playwright: The Welders. Co-Founder: DC Coalition for Theatre & Social Justice. AWARDS: TCG Rising Leader of Color 2016, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship 2016 and 2017, and Puffin Foundation Grant 2016.
Kathleen Akerley (Director) REGIONAL: The Skriker, The Gas Heart, Everything Between Us, The Small Things, shkspr prjct (Helen Hayes nomination), The Tooth of Crime, Jumpers, Macbett, On the Waterfront, Beyond the Horizon, The Winter’s Tale, Voodoo Macbeth, Penetrator, The Graduate, Ubu Roi, Writer’s Cramp, [sic], Love’s Fire, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (Helen Hayes nomination), The Hothouse, Man With Bags, The Power of the Dog, Energumen, After Magritte, Cat’s Cradle (also the adaptor). OTHER: Artistic Director, Longacre Lea and director/playwright of Longacre Lea productions Fear, Bones in Whispers, Pol Pot & Associates LLP, Goldfish Thinking, Something Past in Front of the Light (considered for the Steinberg Award), The Oogatz Man, Theories of the Sun, Whipping, or The Football Hamlet; Artistic Associate, Sideshow Theatre; member, Dramatists Guild. AWARDS: Theater Lobby Award for Acting and Directing; Boomerang Fund Grant recipient for “audacious artistry;†DCCAH Fellow in Playwriting (2016) and Directing (2017).
They will also be joined by Shilpa Jindia, an independent researcher and journalist exploring issues of conflict, security and technology. Her recent work includes an investigation into disinformation in Syria and an evaluation of a community technology program in Detroit. She is currently a commissioning editor at Latterly Magazine and previously served as an editor at openDemocracy in London. Her writing on film and politics has appeared in Yahoo News, Washington City Paper, Little White Lies, Latterly and Muftah.Â
This event is co-sponsored by Signature Theatre, a non-profit professional theater company in Arlington, Virginia dedicated to producing contemporary musicals and plays, reinventing classic musicals, and developing new work. The theatre was the recipient of the 2009 Regional Theatre Tony Award®,
