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Florida International Universitys Architecture + The Arts Theatre Presents TheAlternative Theatre Festival

-Sizzling Summer of Programs by the Hottest Star Alumni, Student & Faculty Talent-

MIAMI July 12, 2013 Florida International Universitys College of Architecture + the Arts (CARTA)Department of Theatre is proud to announce its 7th Annual Summer Alternative Theatre Festival(www.theatre.fiu.edu), which will take place through August 10, 2013. All performances will take placeat the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Black Box Theatre located on the FIUmain campus at 10910 SW 17th Street Miami, Fl. To view a complete list of all the Alternative Theatre

Festival plays, please visit www.LivetheArts.com.

The FIU Theatre offers playwrights and actors from all over the world, including FIU alumni, thechance to produce, develop and star in both classic and original pieces live onstage. Each year thefestival features a dynamic student directed piece, faculty directed piece and a development piece.

This is a great opportunity for the community to experience provocative and exciting theatre piecesthat will showcase world class talent and alumni who are successfully working in theatre, film andtelevision, as actors, writers, directors and producers, said CARTA Dean, Brian Schriner.

Kenny Finkles new play A Thousand Years, will be this summers development piece, directed byMichael Yawney, FIU Theatres dramaturge, who researches and develops new works. Finkle will be

attending rehearsals and will see his piece fully realized for the first time with a full production, offbook, from July 25 through August 3, in the Black Box Theatre of the Herbert and Nicole WertheimPerforming Arts Center.

FIU Theatres ability to produce and develop pieces creates a laboratory situation where we are ableto work on things that may or may not function, says Micheal Yawney. This enables us to hone andperfect our art through experimentation and the expansion of our creative horizons.

FIU Theatres main effort and challenge this summer, as first producers, is to create a unique modelfor developing and producing plays that will inspire other theatres across the nation to adopt theirproduction model of bringing the script to life; just as last years play As the Globe Warms, byHeather Woodbury, went on perform at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA and Vortex

Repertory Company in Austin, TX after first being staged and developed at last years AlternativeTheatre Festival.

A major highlight of this summers festival will be the return of David Mamets famous play, GlengarryGlenn Ross. Having performed in the play 11 years ago, Ivan Lopez, who owns his own TheatreCompany and is an adjunct professor at FIUs Theatre department, reunited the original eight member

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cast and director, FIU professor Wayne Robinson, to reprise their roles for this years festival. Thecast consists of FIU alumni who are successful actors, some of them based in South Florida andsome in California. The show will be performed August 9 through August 10 in the Black Box Theatreof the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, at 8:00 PM.

This is the first time that the entire cast of a play consists of alumni, said Marina Pareja, theAlternative Theatre Festivals faculty director and production manager. But we always hope to havealumni involved in one way or anotherwhether it is acting, designing or directing.

Other pieces at this summers festival include, the Bachelorette and Reverse Psychology, both ofwhich have been previously staged. The Bachelorette, sees recent FIU graduate and prospectivegrad student, Stephanie Sandoval, take the directors chair and oversee the entire production. Inaddition, Faculty director Marina Pareja will direct Reverse Psychology as she heads and designs atthe FIU Theatre Costume Shop.

To view a complete list of all the Alternative Theatre Festival plays, please visit www.LivetheArts.com.

About The College of Architecture + The Arts:With more than 1,400 majors in seven academic departmentsMusic, Architecture, Art and ArtHistory, Communication Arts, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Theatrethe Collegeof Architecture + The Arts is proud to offer undergraduate and graduate students an intimate andnurturing atmosphere that offers opportunities for individual attention while promoting the creativespirit in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of imagination, intellectual curiosity, and artisticexpression For more information, visit CARTAs website at: http://carta.fiu.edu/ orhttp://vimeo.com/49453119

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