Ithaca College

This is a prolific September for Theatre Arts Assistant Professor Saviana Stanescu Condeescu, presenting an award and with multiple readings of her work in New York City and Ithaca this week.

On Sunday, September 24, at 2 pm, at the New Ohio Theatre in NYC, as part of the pop-up AMERICAN AF Festival centralizing black, brown, queer and radical voices, Stanescu will direct a staged reading of DREAM ACTS (written by Chiori Mityagawa, Jessica Litwak, Mia Chung, Andrea Those, and Saviana Stanescu), a piece based on interviews with DREAM ACT-eligible youth. Following the reading, Stanescu will facilitate a panel discussion on "DREAMers are US - Between DACA and the Unknown" with DREAMers, activists and the Dream Acts artists. IC Theatre Arts alumni actors Oghenero Gbaje, Ashton Muniz, and Kate Owens, are featured in the reading, while Angela Griggs is the Stage Manager. Learn more at: https://americanaf.org

Playwright, ARTivist and Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, Saviana Stanescu, winner of the 2007 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Play, has been invited to be an award presenter for the 2017 New York Innovative Theatre Awards Ceremony in NYC on Monday, September 25.

Last but not least, on Wednesday, September 27, at 7 pm, Stanescu's monologue Don't / Dream, tackling issues of undocumented immigrants who are domestic workers, will be performed by actress Camilla Shade as part of the ITHACA OUT LOUD event, organized by Ithaca City of Asylum, at the Tomkins County Public Library in Ithaca. IC Theatre Arts professors Cynthia Henderson and Greg Bostwick are also featured in the event. Learn more at: https://ithacacityofasylum.com