We are extremely proud to announce that our 2012 Season will be dedicated to solely presenting original works. After the success of last season's Brothers Beckett, we couldn't be more thrilled to embark on this exciting adventure!
In a time when most theatres would play it safe and produce true and tried works that have already played in New York and other cities, The Alliance is giving voice to two of South Florida's most promising playwrights.
After the loss of Florida Stage we felt the need to pick up the torch in whatever small way we can and dedicate our creative energies to the development new works. This is something that we hope you will appreciate and support. We hope to continue to produce new works in each and everyone of our upcoming seasons as well as provide our audiences with the edgy modern classics that they have come to expect from us.
Here is your first look at this BRAVE and EXCITING new Season. We look forward to seeing you at the ALLIANCE!
Off Center of Nowhere
by David Michael Sirois**
Jackie, a 17 year old Brooklyn high school student, has a secret to tell her parents. But, in confessing her one secret, it unleashes a string of confessions that can destroy her whole family. As the story unfolds, the characters are faced with moral conundrums that deal with abortion, racism and religion.
"This play deals with the fragility of belief systems, and the lengths a person is willing to go to as long as honesty is the foundation," says Sirois.
David Michael Sirois is a Connecticut born theatre artist who wrote and directed his first play, 3 for Lunch, at Broward College in Davie, Florida. At Broward, he would successfully act, write and direct many more of his full lengths and one acts. David submitted his work to the Kennedy Center Playwrighting Competition where he was a finalist in both the 10-minute play and short play categories. His first world premiere, Brothers Beckett, was produced at The Alliance Theatre Lab and has won the Miami New Times Best New Play Award for 2011, Best of MiamiArtZine, Best of Florida Theatre on Stage, The Silver Palm Award and is recommended for the ATCA/Steinberg Award. He's acted, written and directed at many school and professional theatres including: Broward College, New World School of the Arts, Barry University, Lynn University, Frenchwoods Festival, Coral Springs Institute, New Theatre, Promethean, Mosaic, GableStage, Caldwell, Florida Stage, The State Theatre Project, Lake Worth Playhouse, and is an Ensemble Member and Resident Playwright at The Alliance Theatre Lab.
"Small Membership"
by Mark Della Ventura**
Directed byDavid Sirois
Meet Matt, a 26 year old seeking attention and guidance from a group of strangers. The show centers on male insecurity and through a series of flashbacks we see his childhood and adulthood struggles with puberty, sexual orientation, anxiety, true love, heartbreak and self-determined celibacy.
"Small Membership is an original, full-length one person show about a big boy with a small problem," says Della Ventura.
The original, twenty-minute, one-act version of Small Membership was first presented at New Theatre in July 2009 as part of "The New Ones Festival." Since then, it has had showings in New York and Miami, all to audience acclaim. He was advised to expand the play into full-length, as there seemed to be much more story to tell. The full-length script has had three staged readings here in South Florida: two at GableStage and one at Mosaic Theatre, both last year. This production at Alliance will mark the first full production of the full-length version and will be directed by Ensemble Member David Sirois.
"Roomies"
by Mark Della Ventura**
Put five 20-somethings, who all just graduated from a four year acting conservatory, in a two bedroom apartment. Now have one of those 20-somethings trying to write a play, documenting their lives in this apartment.
"roomies is about a playwright literally living with his characters," say Della Ventura.
Mark Della Ventura was born in New York and raised in South Florida. He first studied theatre at Broward College and then went on to earn his BFA from New World School of the Arts. His play, Two Years Later was a finalist for the 2010 Heideman Award. As a playwright, he has been produced throughout the country, including two one-acts in the Off-Off Broadway Harvest One-Act Festival with Variations Theatre Group in New York.
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