The New York-based, non-profit Diverse City Theatre Company (DCT) presented “Resurrection,” a play by Fil-Am poet and playwright Eric Gamalinda at the Kalayaan Hall of the Philippine Consulate General at 556 Fifth Ave., New York last March 16, 2009.Presented as part of the DCT Green Room’s 2009 Winter Series, “Resurrection” was directed by Victor Lirio, with actors Ching Valdes-Aran, Andrew Eisenman, Randy Falcon and Luz Lor playing the lead characters.
The play is about how the unexplained death of a young woman triggers a series of relentless changes in a family and tears it apart. As relationships unravel and secrets emerge, the mother, her two sons, and an incongruous daughter-in-law, unable to cope with new realities, find themselves trapped in an infernal cycle of denial and loneliness.
Eric Gamalinda is the recipient of The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards (the Philippines’ Pulitzer Prize) for fiction, poetry, essay and playwriting. Some of the many awards and grants for his writing include the Asian American Literary Award for Zero Gravity, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for My Sad Republic, and the National Book Award for Planet Waves. His stories have been anthologized by Penguin Books, Rutgers University Press, Soft Skull, Fromm International, and Feltrinelli (Milan). He was Publications Director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in 1999, and Visiting Scholar at New York University's Asia Pacific American Studies Program in 2002-2003. He currently teaches at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
Diverse City Theater Company (DCT) develops and produces powerful and thought-provoking works that explore and examine our society’s diversity issues from social, cultural, gender and demographic perspectives; creates multiculturally fluent theater audiences; and advocates the non-traditional casting of actors to reflect the rich spectrum of our national culture and universality of the human spirit.
Since 2005, The DCT’s Green Room has presented over 100 artist playwrights, directors and actors including Tony Award Winner Marian Seldes; Laila Robins; Michael Cumpsty; Obie Award winner Ching Valdes-Aran; Drama Desk Winner Amy Warren; Theater, Film & Television Actress Susan Misner; NEA-honoree Cassandra Medley; Maxine Kern; Jamie Richards; Jordan Beswick; Carlos Armesto; Andrew Bergh; Steven Ditmyer; Jorshinelle Taleon-Sonza; Stuart Harris; Jason Tam; Cindy Cheung; Raul Aranas; Joe Byers; Robert Askins; Rona Figueroa; Linda Faigao-Hall; James McManus; Amy Hartman; Christine Toy Johnson; Kristine Reyes; Pearl Sun; Lydia Stryk; Sal Inzerillo; Rodney To; Victor Maog; May Adrales; Jessi Hill, among others.
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