Antigone featuring Zishan Ugurlu May 17, 2007

Presented by LaMama E.T.C. in association with Actors Without Borders – ITONY and the Moon and Stars Project

Thursday, May 17, 10 pm
Friday, May 18, 10 pm

Tickets: $15
For additional information please call (212) 229-1207 or visit http://www.moonandstarsproject.org

Written by Jose Watanabe
Directed by Gisela Cardenas
Costume design by Oana Botez Ban
Featuring Zishan Uğurlu as Antigone

Jose Watanabe (Writer)
Jose Watanabe is widely recognized as one of the all-time major Peruvian poets. In 1970, he shared the first prize with Antonio Cillóniz in the Young Poet contest organized by Cuadernos Trimestrales de Poesía, an award that has also been presented to poets Javier Heraud and César Calvo. He has been involved in the film industry as a writer, art director and production designer.
Gisela Cardenas (Director)
Gisela Cardenas’s New York City credits include Iphigenia at Aulis, Macbeth at The Riverside Church Theater, Federico Garcia Lorca’s Don Perlimplin for Repertorio Español, Fires adapted by Marguerite Yourcenar’s novel of the same name, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, which has won the Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Director of a Play in 2006, and In Delirium based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther.
Zishan Uğurlu (Antigone)
Zishan Uğurlu is an actress and director-in-residence at La Mama E.T.C., Great Jones Repertory Company, where she has performed in various productions. She played Carmen in Robert Wooduff’s Godard-Distant and Right, which was awarded the Grand Prix at the Festival Des Jeunes of the Theatre des Amandiers Nanterre in Paris. Other recent roles include the world premier of Dario Fo’s one-woman-show Peasants’ Bible, Dante in Dante and Caliban in Caliban Remembers (Balinese version of the Tempest), all directed by Ron Jenkins.
She has been featured in two international films: The Letter, which was shown at the Cannes, Argentina, and Calcutta Film Festivals; and Dog Race, which was awarded the Martin Scorsese, Grand Marnier and W. Johnson Awards at the New York Film Festival.
Uğurlu is the artistic director of Actors without Borders-ITONY and assistant professor at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.

Official Website: http://www.moonandstarsproject.org/fests/2007_mayfest_antigone.shtml