PROGRAM 13

Coming Up Roses by Aria Critchley

Corruption by Arthur Giron

Aria Critchley (The Florist) Aria is thrilled to be performing her very first original piece which is very near and dear to her heart. She is a recent graduate of The New School for Drama. Some of her credits include: Roleplay (Tara, The Chain Theater); Beauty and The Beast (Belle, The Egyptian Theater); Triangle Cruise (Giustina, The Cutting Room). She would like to thank her mama for her never ending support and her amazing director Maeve for making it all happen. Aria is a proud member of Equity. 

Maeve Rose (Director) Recent graduate of the New School BFA Drama. As a multidisciplinary theater maker, Maeve is interested in creating detailed, unique, and collaborative worlds. Selected credits include: The Outside (Director, The New School Thesis, Metropolitan Playhouse), Dance Dance Dance Dance and Anomaly (Director, The New School Thesis), Bedlam, Clubbed Thumb, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Manhattan Rep, NY City Center.  

TRISHA JEFFREY (Director) is a founding member of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, choreographing much of their early Obie award-winning works including Macbeth, Lysistrata, The Blacks, and The Crazy Locomotive. Directing credits include: A Gap In The Sky, The Little Mermaid, Talk To Me Like The Rain & Let Me Listen and Assistant Director to Tamara Tunie on the world premiere of the musical Jazzland. Trisha is also an award-winning actor appearing in several Broadway productions, regional, national, and international tours as well as TV/Film. AEA For more information on her work, visit www.trishajeffrey.com @trishajeffrey 

Michael Simon Hall  (Bruno in Corruption) 

Michael recently created the tour-de-force role of artist Jackson Pollock in The Crooked Heart by Susan Tepper, adapted from her Pulitzer Prize -nominated novel. Other recent include Rev. James Smith in the award-winning Broadway-bound musical Henry Box Brown (Europe/US Regional), Gabriel Conroy in The Dead (Theater Row) Stephen Dedalus in 100th Anniv. Portrait of the Artist..., by Olivier Award winner Jim Culleton of Fishamble. He co-conceived and played the narrator in the chamber musical The Ironworkers' Hayride with Emmy winning composer Lanny Meyers and Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler, in addition to writing A Gap In the Sky, The Usual Space, and Pieces of Paper - Aspirations of 9/11 (HERE Arts, Irondale). Film/TV includes the acclaimed I Know This Much Is True (HBO). AEA michaelsimonhall.com

Arthur Giron (Playwright - Corruption)

Arthur Giron, (1937 - 2022) "One of our best contemporary dramatists" - Rosette Clark (NY Times, NY Theatre Wire), co-wrote the Broadway musical Amazing Grace, in addition to writing 20 plays exploring the subjects of social justice, political corruption and science, which have been performed across the US, Europe and Central America. Giron was a recipient of the Los Angeles Critics' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Writing on two separate occasions, as well as the Galileo Prize for Illuminating Scientific Innovation. He was awarded three commissions from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation which led to a partnership with Ensemble Studio Theatre, where Giron was a founding member, and the subsequent creation of EST's First Light Festival. His many plays include Edith Stein, Becoming Memories, Moving Bodies, Emile's Voltaire and Flight. Corruption is his final existing complete work. arthurgiron.com

Geneva Foster-Narvaez is prepared to graduate from the New School of Drama in 2024 where she will receive her BFA in Dramatic Arts. With a focus in playwriting and filmmaking, Geneva plans to illuminate queer narratives through her artistic practice upon graduating college. She will also continue to cultivate her teaching artist practice and act as a beacon of accessibility for young students of color yearning to let their creative colors fly!