August 21-27, 2017
Wildacres, Little Switzerland, North Carolina
Ali just arrived back from a week-long writer’s residency at Wildacres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. In a cozy cabin in the woods, Ali wrote her newest play, In Every Generation. Wildacres offered tranquility, solitude, and inspiration, and Ali is so grateful for the opportunity, time, and space.Stay tuned for more In Every Generation news!
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August 6, 2017 @ 3pm
Education Center | RoundHouse Theatre | Silver Spring, MD
A new play by Ali Viterbi
Directed by Gabrielle Hoyt; Produced by Emma Hills
PERIOD SISTERS (formerly titled THE THAY BAY PLAY) will receive its first workshop in August. Starring ten incredible DC-based actors, this is the first time PERIOD SISTERS will be performed with choreography, original music, and direction.
“There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” But to the sorority sisters of Theta Beta, the word “help” can mean a great many things. Eager freshman Joni learns this truth the hard way when her lifelong dream of acceptance into Theta Beta becomes a reality. Plunged into a world of Dirty Disney mixers, pancake bake-offs, reality TV shows that become restoration comedies, and bulimia dream ballets, Joni struggles to transform into the perfect Theta Beta sister–at great personal cost. Yet even while critiquing the highly traditional and inimitably American rituals of sorority life, Period Sisters embraces the redemptive power of female friendships. At its core sits Joni’s burgeoning friendship with Kate, her cynical and struggling sorority ‘Big Sister’, who has long since given up on fitting in. Supported by an all-female “Greek Chorus”, Joni and Kate strive to please those around them while retaining personal autonomy; an all-too-familiar task for American women today. When an allegation of sexual assault shatters the sorority’s status quo, Kate and Joni must both decide who they are, what they want, and whether their blood really does run aquamarine-and-ivory. A stylized, surreal, and theatrical work, Period Sisters mixes pop culture with pageantry, superficial with sacred, to create a searing portrait of life as a young, 21st century woman.
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24th Annual Lipinsky San Diego Jewish Arts FestivalMay – July 2017
San Diego REP | San Diego, CA
Artistic Director and Producer: Todd Salovey
Associate Producer: Ali Viterbi
Tickets available for purchase to all events in the festival here!
The 24th annual Lipinsky San Diego Jewish Arts Festival includes a slate of twelve performance in theater, dance, music, film, and fine arts at four different San Diego and North County venues. This year’s festival features a more broad celebration of San Diego’s diverse performing arts community. Highlighting the festival will be: a sneak peek at a Hershey Felder work in progress, “The Stories of Sholem Aleichem;” a celebration of Andrew Viterbi’s new memoir, “Andrew Viterbi: Reflections of an Educator, Researcher and Entrepreneur” (directed by Ali Viterbi); “Minor Fall, Major Lift,” a brand new evening of dance from Malashock Dance; and The 8th Annual “Woman of Valor” (co-written and directed by Ali Viterbi).
UCSD MFA in PlaywritingSeptember 2017- May 2020
San Diego, CA
Ali is proud to announce that she will begin pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at UC San Diego next fall . Over the next three years, Ali will study with chair Naomi Iizuka, Deborah Stein, and Allan Havis, among others. Each spring you can see full productions of her new plays at the Wagner New Play Festival at UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse. Ali is so excited to attend her dream school, commune with a talented and diverse group of playwrights, and return to her hometown of San Diego. California, here I come!
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April 29th, 2017 @ 7pm
The Barrow Group | New York, NY
Playwrights’ Reading Series in the Studio Theater
Written by Ali Viterbi
Directed by Noam Shapiro; Featuring Sarah Babb and Josh Mendelow
This full-length, non-linear, two-actor play chronicles Sadie and Ethan’s twenty-year relationship as they tour with the Grateful Dead across the country. As Sadie and Ethan travel from concert to concert, the audience follows the triumphs and travails of their relationship—from collegiate concerns to marital challenges. Each scene is set in a different year and different motel room, as Sadie and Ethan, played by the same actors, fall in and out of love with the Dead, as well as with each other. The play investigates how healthy relationships become abusive, and why people remain committed to each other over time. Played to the music of the Grateful Dead, DEADHEADS asks “Where does the time go” when you think you’re in love.