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.
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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!
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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.
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.
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!