Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.

Playwrights Festival, September 22 - 28, 2008

CLOSING NIGHT: SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

The Indo-American Arts Council and The Lark Play Development Center are delighted to invite you to the Closing Night Celebration of PLAYWRIGHTS WEEK 2008 at The Lark Theatre, 939 Eighth Ave, (between 55 & 56 St), New York City.

7 pm: Lina Patel’s Sankalpan

SANKALPAN (DESIRE) by Lina Patel
Lina Patel (SANKALPAN) is an actor/writer living in Los Angeles. Her play, SANKALPAN (Desire), was a semi-finalist for the Sundance Theatre Institute and received its first staged reading at Chicago’s Silk Road Theatre. In December the play had a workshop at the New Group in New York, directed by Ian Morgan. Her comedy, PERFECT FIT, about fashion, race and parenthood, received two staged readings at the Groundlings Theatre, directed by Shelley Butler. A Sherwood Award finalist, Lina was invited by Center Theatre Group to develop a new play in CTG’s Writer’s Retreat. THE RAGGED CLAWS received a reading at the Taper in June. She continues to develop her work in First Tuesdays, a writer’s group led by friend and mentor, Jose Rivera. Lina is actively involved in the Los Angeles arts community and served in various capacities for the ArtWallah Festival. Lina has worked with ArtWallah as literature and theatre curator and as co-artistic director. As an actor, Lina has performed at the Globe Theatres, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, East West Players, the Kirk Douglas, Taper, Too, MCC, The New Group, Theatreworks, L.A. Women’s Shakespeare Festival, and the Actor’s Gang. Her one-woman show, KRISHNA IN TEXAS has been performed in San Diego and Los Angeles. Television appearances include guest-spots on: “24”, “Num3ers”, “ CSI”. As a voice-over artist, Lina has voiced for animated series and narrated books, including William Faulkner’s, "As I Lay Dying," for Penguin.

9 pm: Award Presentation of IAAC-Lark Playwright Resident followed by the Playwrights Week Closing Party, hosted by the Indo-American Arts Council.

There are no tickets but reservations are essential. www.larktheatre.org

A laboratory for new voices and new ideas, the LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER provides playwrights with indispensable resources to develop their work. The Lark brings together actors, directors, playwrights and the community to allow writers to learn about their own work by seeing and hearing it, and by receiving feedback from a dedicated and supportive community. The company reaches into untapped local populations and across international boundaries to seek out and embrace unheard voices and diverse perspectives, celebrating differences in language and worldviews. The Lark also plays a leading role in advancing unknown writers and their works to audiences through carefully stewarded partnerships with a host of theaters, universities, community-based organizations, and NGOs, locally, nationally and globally. The Lark is led by Producing Director, John Clinton Eisner and Managing Director, Michael Robertson. For more information, www.larktheatre.org or .


INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL is a registered 501(c) 3 not-for-profit, secular service and resource arts organization charged with the mission of promoting and building the awareness, creation, production, exhibition, publication and performance of Indian and cross-cultural art forms in North America: in the performing, visual, literary and folk arts. The IAAC supports all artistic disciplines in the classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. IAAC works cooperatively with colleagues around the United States to broaden our collective audiences and to create a network for shared information, resources and funding. IAAC’s focus is to work with artists and arts organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists and arts organizations from India to exhibit, perform and produce their works here. The IAAC presents annual festivals of Art, Dance, Playwrights & Film as well as several book launches and individual concerts and readings. For more information on the Indo-American Arts Council, visit: .

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