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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. 

 

Wildacres

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Wildacres Residency

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!

Period Sisters – Workshop

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Period Sisters

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.