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World Premiere at Victory Gardens Theater!

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IN EVERY GENERATION

World Premiere

November 13 – December 13, 2020

Victory Gardens Theater | Chicago, IL

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Devon de Mayo

Each Passover, for four millennia, we ask: why is this night different from all other nights? And each year, the Levi-Katz clan has answered, while struggling with questions of race and religion that never seem to get resolved. The family finds strength in tradition (vegan brisket or no); but each year of celebration brings more pressing questions about the future: if trauma is generational, then must we be defined by it? Will we ever be free? Written by Ali Viterbi, In Every Generation was the 2019 winner of the National Jewish Playwriting Contest, and will have its world premiere at Victory Gardens, staged by Devon de Mayo (If I Forget, Victory Gardens).

More information about the play and tickets can be found here. And the full announcement for Victory Garden’s spectacular 2020-2021 season can be found here.

And click here for the Chicago Tribune’s press release.

Kennedy Center Awards

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IN EVERY GENERATION

By Ali Viterbi

IN EVERY GENERATION has won The Kennedy Center’s 2020 Second Place awards for the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award and the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award. 

JEAN KENNEDY SMITH PLAYWRITING AWARD: Supported by VSA, the International Organization on Arts and Disability, and Kennedy Center Access. The Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, named after the founder of VSA, is offered for the outstanding student-written script that explores the human experience of living with a disability.

ROSA PARKS PLAYWRITING AWARD: The Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, presented in association with the Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, celebrates one of the great Americans of the civil rights movement, and recognizes the outstanding student or faculty-written full-length play on the subject of social justice and/or civil rights.

The ceremony at The Kennedy Center has been cancelled due to COVID-19.

Vermont Studio Center

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Vermont Studio Center

 

September 14-25, 2019

Johnson, Vermont

Ali is currently at a two week writer’s residency at Vermont Studio Center in the beautiful Johnson, Vermont. In a studio overlooking a river, Ali’s writing a new play about high school, passing privilege, and Anne Frank. Stay tuned for more news!

Wildacres Residency

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Wildacres Residency

August 12-18, 2019

Wildacres, Little Switzerland, North Carolina

Ali is currently returning for a second time for a week-long writer’s residency at Wildacres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. In a cozy cabin in the woods, Ali’s writing a new play about high school, passing privilege, and Anne Frank. Stay tuned for more news!

In Every Generation wins the National Jewish Playwriting Contest!

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IN EVERY GENERATION

September 4 @ 7:30pm

Jewish Plays Project | 14th St Y | New York City

By Ali Viterbi

Directed by Howard Shalwitz

IN EVERY GENERATION has won the 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest! Over 150 playwrights from 27 states and 6 countries submitted plays to the Contest. The JPP chose the play through its signature community-centered process, which combined the efforts of over 1,000 people in 7 cities – artists in New York, clergy and Jewish lay leaders, and theater-savvy audiences – a unique effort that provides one-of-kind feedback to playwrights and invaluable audience response to prospective producers.

The play will receive the JPP’s featured workshop reading at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 East 14th Street, on Wednesday, September 5th at 7:30 pm. Audiences can reserve tickets at www.jewishplaysproject.org or jewishplaysproject.eventbrite.com

One family. One holiday. Four millennia. The Levi-Katz family celebrates Passover again and again (and again and again) and while times, location, and languages change, traditions stay the same. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, the close-knit clan contends with questions of race, religion, and inter-generational trauma. The present echoes the past—and the past the present—as the family repeatedly reenacts the exodus from Egypt, each time asking themselves: must we define ourselves through trauma? Will we ever be free? And why is this night different from all other nights?

For more information, click HERE!