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9th Annual Women of Valor

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9th Annual Women of Valor

June 7 @ 7:30pm and June 10 @ 1pm and 3pm

Lyceum Space & Encinitas Library | San Diego REP | San Diego, CA

By Ali Viterbi, Todd Salovey, Leah Salovey, and Rebecca Myers

Directed by Ali Viterbi and Leah Salovey

Produced by Ali Viterbi (Associate Producer of the 25th Annual Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival)

A completely new version of the Festival’s yearly celebration of the lives and inspiration of six of San Diego’s most incredible Jewish women. With music, visuals, and a world premiere script, “Women of Valor” is a staged reading that will touch the heart with laughter, drama, and inspiration. This year’s women include: Evelyn Rady, Jill Spitzer, Marsha Berkson, Sura Leider, Ruth Sax, and Dr. Ellen Beck.

Proceeds benefit Chesed Home, Torah High School and Project Sarah.

Co-sponsored by Jewish Family Service of San Diego

“A woman of valor, who shall find?/ She is more precious than pearls…/ Give her the fruits of her hand/ And let her be praised/ In the gates by her very own deeds” –Proverbs

O’ Neill NPC Finalist 2018

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O’ Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist 2018

Ali’s play PERIOD SISTERS was selected among over 1,400 plays as one of 55 finalists for this year’s O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. A list of the this year’s finalists can be found here. She is thrilled to be a finalist, along with some of her dear friends and talented colleagues. Ali will be observing at the O’Neill this summer, as part of her MFA program.

JOSHUA (UC San Diego’s Wagner New Play Festival 2018)

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JOSHUA

May 12, 16, 17, 18 @ 7:30pm, May 19 @ 10:30am

UC San Diego | 

Wagner New Play Festival |

A new play by Ali Viterbi

Directed by Vanessa Stalling

The Wagner New Play Festival features world-premiere productions written by the talented MFA playwrights and directed, acted, stage-managed and designed by the nationally acclaimed MFA companies. The plays represent some of the most original and groundbreaking new voices in American theatre. JOSHUA will be performed as part of the MFA One Acts, at the Arthur Wagner Theatre, along with fellow MFA first-years Dave Harris’ “Tambo and Bones” and Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s “The Clitorish.”

Joshua Synopsis: Anya’s boyfriend was Caleb’s best friend. To commemorate the one-year anniversary of his death, Anya and Caleb ditch school to go to the desert. And maybe fall in love. And maybe conjure a ghost. JOSHUA looks at that moment in time where life moves us from a place of youth and innocence into the place that will shape our adult selves. As we look back, how do we reconcile the missed opportunities, the things we didn’t say, the paths we didn’t take? And will they even matter to our older selves?

For more information, check out this press release!

SUGAR – Westmont College New Play Festival

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SUGAR

April 19, 2018 @ 9:25pm + April 21, 2018 @ 3:35pm

Fringe Festival | Westmont College | Santa Barbara, CA

A new play by Ali Viterbi

Westmont College theater department’s annual celebration of original, devised, experimental, and otherwise new and previously unseen work that culminates every season at the college. The Fringe, which began in 2005, has steadily grown to include more than 100 students, featuring 29 pieces of film, dance, performance art, Phoenix night acts, original plays and Hive plays, which are the result of playwriting MFA students (including Ali Viterbi) working with student writers during a week-long developmental process. SUGAR is Ali Viterbi’s new ten-minute play, directed by Westmont student Abbie Pryor. 

The annual Westmont Fringe Festival, featuring 11 original student plays being performed in 10 different venues at two different sites, including the downtown Alhecama Theatre and around Westmont’s Porter Theatre, is Thursday, April 19, from 7:20-10:30 p.m.; Friday, April 20, from 7-11:15 p.m. (9:30-11:15 p.m. downtown); Saturday, April 21, 2-4 p.m., with Phoenix Night, which includes art, poetry and music, starting at 8 p.m.; and Sunday, April 22, from 6:30-11:15 p.m. (9:30-11:15 p.m. downtown). Festival passes ($15 general admission, $10 students/seniors) or daily tickets ($10 general admission, $7 student/seniors) are available online here. For more information, please call (805) 565-7140.

 

CineStory Quarterfinalist

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CineStory TV Fellowship Quarterfinalist

February 2017

Ali’s pilot “44 Steps” was a quarterfinalist of the 2018 CineStory TV/Digital Fellowship in the Original Drama Devision. “44 Steps” is a one-hour legal drama about the personal and professional challenges that face five Supreme Court Justices’ clerks. When conservative Justice Seranno unexpectedly dies from a heart attack, the nation pauses to mourn. The Supreme Court Justice’s clerks, however, have no time to pause. Esther, Zac, Issi, Charlotte, and Jayden- the nation’s most ambitious and promising young legal minds- must scramble to influence a currently tied vote while fighting to keep their jobs in the wake of the Justice’s vacancy.