Indio
Joe's pub
425 Lafayette st.
take 6 train to astor
or
R train to 8th street
Oct 24th and 27th
7pm
$15

For tics and info
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5818

Written and Performed by
Aladdin Ullah

Directed by Obie Winner
Chay Yew

Tablas Accompanied by
Avirodh Sharma

Auditioning to play a terrorist in a major Hollywood movie may be stand-up comedian Aladdin's big break. As he prepares for his audition, he finds himself thinking back on his deceased father, who left Bangladesh for a better life in New York, and his parents' futile attempts to raise him Muslim in Spanish Harlem. Accompanied by the tabla, Aladdin takes us on a hilarious and moving journey about art, immigration, family, the Yankees and the nature of the American dream.

An inaugural member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, Aladdin developed his solo show Indio at the Public, including via its the New Work Now! reading series, and at New York Theater Workshop, Cape Cod Theater Project, The Lark Play Development Center, and Shakespeare in Paradise in the Bahamas.

Pioneering the way for South Asians the past two decades, Aladdin has been performing all over the world as a stand-up comedian. He was one the very first South Asians to appear as a stand-up comedian on national television (Comedy Central, BET, MTV PBS etc) In response to the entrenched racism and discrimination in New York comedy clubs during the 90's, Aladdin created a show comprised of the hottest up and coming multi-ethnic comedians aptly titled "Colorblind." The first alternative comedy show to gain critical acclaim in New York, it was hailed by the New York Times as "hilariously original, and brave."

Aladdin's voice was recently featured in the award-winning animated film Sita Sings the Blues, which won major awards at film festivals all over the world (Tribeca, Berlin, Toronto). It was hailed by critics such as Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun Times ("two thumbs up!") and A.O Scott of the New York Times (" a tour de force").