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    • The world premiere of Cusi Cram's Novenas for a Lost Hospital, a communal theatrical experience celebrating the life and legacy of the now-closed St. Vincent's Hospital, begins performances Off-Broadway September 5. The traveling production, created by playwright Cusi Cram and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director Daniella Topol, takes a 60-person audience on a journey from an enclosed West Village garden to Rattlestick’s intimate theatre and the NYC AIDS Memorial Park.

    Tony nominee Kathleen Chalfant leads the cast as Elizabeth Seton of the Sisters of Charity (reprising her performance from last year's workshop production).

    Completing the cast are Ken Barnett, Goussy Celestin, Justin Genna, Steven Jeltsch, Alvin Keith, Shayne Lebron-Acevedo, Kelly McAndrew, Noriko Omichi, Rafael Sánchez, Laura Vogels, and Natalie Woolams-Torres.

    Novenas runs through October 13 with an opening night set for September 19.

    The show pays tribute to and celebrates St. Vincent’s Hospital, the 161-year-old Catholic institution and West Village landmark that treated victims of AIDS, as well as calamities from the sinking of the Titanic to September 11.

    Novenas is presented in partnership with Village Preservation, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Community Center, NYC AIDS Memorial Board, NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, St. John’s in the Village, and Visual AIDS. Guy Lancaster is the dramaturg, Lannyl Stephens is attached as creative partner, and Edisa Weeks is the show's choreographer.

     

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    Join us for a discussion on the role of the Director of Artistic Sign Language (DASL) in theater. Kailyn Aaron-Lozano and the Dramatic Writing IDEA Council invite you to discover how the DASL translates scripts using ASL, collaborates with sign language interpreters, and works with actors both onstage and backstage. We'll also examine the unique challenges of translating plays versus musicals. Don't miss this chance to gain valuable insights into this vital aspect of live performance!

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    Kailyn Aaron-Lozano - Afro-Latine (Black/Mexican) Artist/Educator/DASL with a wide range of interests. This South Central Los Angeles native holds a History degree from California State University, Northridge, and two Masters from Gallaudet University in Deaf Studies and Sign Language Education. ASL translation with music is her love, and she has worked in theater. (DASL: Director of Artistic Sign Language) Regional theater: DAT & ZACH (Cinderella), DAT & Lyric Theatre (Cinderella), LORT Theater-Deaf Broadway (Company & RENT), New Ohio Theatre’s off-Broadway (My Onliness), The Wallis (Deaf West’s Spring Awakening), Non-Profit Theater DAT (The Laramie Project), and now a residency with The Apothetae at The Public.

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    • Cusi Cram

    Cusi Cram is a first generation native New Yorker whose parents originally came from Bolivia and Scotland. She is a playwright, screenwriter, director, educator, performer, and an advocate for under-represented writers in the arts.

    Her plays have been produced by LAByrinth Theater Company, Primary Stages, The Denver Center, South Coast Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, Cornerstone Theater Company, Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts, New Georges, and at universities and theaters, large and petite, all over the country. Her work for stage and screen has been supported by The O’Neill Theater Center, The Sloan Foundation, The Bogliasco Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, Space on Ryder Farm, The Ford Foundation, MacDowell, NYU’s Global Research Institute in Madrid, and the Venturous and the Stillpoint Funds and many other generous organizations.

    Cusi wrote for many years on the PBS children’s program, Arthur,  for which she received three Emmy nominations. She also worked as a writer for several seasons on Showtime's The Big C, starring Laura Linney. Additionally, she’s written on television programs for both kids and adults which have aired on Amazon, PBS, and the BBC. She directed her first film, Wild and Precious, through AFI's Directing Workshop for Women where it won The Adrienne Shelly and Nancy Mallone Awards and played at over twenty festivals nationwide.

    Cusi often uses New York City as both a stage and source of historical inspiration. She has created two different dramatic walking tours supported by the Ford Foundation. She is a  recipient of a NYSCA commission for her play, Novenas for a Lost Hospital, about St. Vincent’s Hospital, which premiered at Rattlestick Theater, starring Kathleen Chalfant.

    Cusi is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company and sits on the board of Rattlestick Theater and the Leah Ryan Foundation, and is the f

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