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Written by Best of Off Broadway
Published 2010-07-29

La CriAtura follows up its 2010 IT Award nominated production of Rootless: La No Nostalgia at PS 122 with the world premiere of THE ORPHANS by Karina Casiano. THE ORPHANS is presented by La MaMa ETC in association with La CriAtura Theater. The show stars Karina Casiano and Daniel Irizarry and begins performances December 2nd at La MaMa.

THE ORPHANS is set in the turbulent near future of New York in 2020. The economic crisis at the turn of the century has led to the privatization of the most basic resources and the citizens have turned to violence. Fed up with the repressive economy, a laid-off pharmaceutical salesman joins a subversive militia. His only contact with the militia is through a stern female agent for the group. Just as the salesman and agent find refuge in each other, an unstoppable popular uprising erupts. The unlikely pair are forced to choose between hiding in their newfound, but isolated happiness and joining in the struggle to reclaim a free, more humane society. Would you leave everything behind to change the world?

THE ORPHANS is based on an original idea by Karina Casiano and Jorge Dieppa. This unique blend of text and physical poetry is made possible in part by contributions from the Puffin Foundation and The Yip Harburg Foundation.

Karina Casiano is the creator of three solo shows and two full length plays that have been presented in New York at venues including PS 122, HERE, Chashama on 42nd Street, and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College. She has collaborated with The Flying Machine, International WOW, Spanish Repertory Theater and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, among others. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico, Casiano premiered her first one-woman show in 1999, touring to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Ecuador, Perú, Chile, and Argentina. In 2005, she was nominated for a New York Latin ACE award as Best Comedy Actress for The Dog in the Manger at Spanish Repertory Theater. In 2006, she premiered her first play with La CriAtura, the site-specific Silence Is Health/Silencio es Salud. Earlier this year, her solo musical Rootless: La No-Nostalgia was featured in the solo NOVA Arts Festival at PS 122 where it has been nominated for a 2010 IT Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical.

Daniel Irizarry's work has been praised in the US and internationally, including Russia, China, Japan, Europe, and the Caribbean. He has performed with Kevin Augustine and Lone Wolf Tribe (Bride, 2009 UNIMA Citation of Excellence;) Eduardo Machado (Crocodile Eyes); Mabou Mines' Terry O'Reilly and Jane Catherine Shaw (Peter and the Wolf); Andrei Serban, Niky Wolcz and James Levine (Benvenuto Cellini and Faust for Met Opera;) Rachel Dickstein (Betrothed and Septimus and Clarissa written by Ellen McLaughlin;) undergroundzero festival at PS 122 (performed and directed The Proposal;) Rania Ajami (Asylum Seekers, winner of best alternative Feature; at 2010 Garden State Film Festival. He holds an MFA in Acting from Columbia University (the first Puerto Rican student to be accepted into the program) and a BA from the University of Puerto Rico. In 1999, he received the Best New Actor award by the Theater Critics' Circle in Puerto Rico. Currently, he is part of the theater faculty at the Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts where he teaches acting. This Fall, he will join the faculty at Columbia University's MFA Acting program. Irizarry is a Mabou Mines RAP 2011 Artist in Residency.

THE ORPHANS runs December 2 - 12, Thursday - Saturday at 10:00 pm and Sunday at 5:30 pm. La Mama E.T.C. is located at 74A East 4th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Aves -- accessible from the F train at 2nd Ave). Tickets are $15.

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