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Shtetl Stories

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Shtetl Stories

June 20 @ 7pm

Miller Theatre at Columbia University | Centropa | New York, NY

Adapted and Directed by Ali Viterbi

Starring current cast members from the Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof (Adam Kantor, Alix Korey, Adam Grupper) and Paula Vogel’s Indecent (Adina Verson)

Commissioned by and created in collaboration with Centropa, the Jewish historical institute dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewish family stories from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Shtetl Stories chronicles the lives of ten Lithuanian Holocaust survivors in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of when the Nazis invaded Lithuania. Adapted from interviews that Centropa conducted, the play will preserve the memory of the world that was destroyed–not just its destruction.

7th Annual Women of Valor

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Seventh Annual Women of Valor

June 8 @ 7:30pm and June 15 @ 6:45pm

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

By Ali Viterbi and Todd Salovey, Leah Salovey, Rebecca Myers, and Sarah Price Keating

Directed by Todd Salovey

Produced by Ali Viterbi (Associate Producer of the 23rd Annual Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival)

A completely new version of the Festival’s yearly celebration of the lives and inspiration of five 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: Rabbi Arlene Bernstein, Lucy Goldman, Lynn Schenk, Elisheva Green, Cecile Jordan, and a special tribute to Golda Meir.

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

“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

Deadheads Workshop

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Deadheads Workshop

10392_10154407139518154_3062472725287229548_nMarch – April 2016

New York, NY

Ali is proud and humbled that her play Deadheads received its first workshop in New York with Lyra Theater Company, directed by Noam Shapiro and featuring Bonnie Antosh as Sadie and Ross Hamman as Ethan. Through an immersive rehearsal process, Ali had the privilege of collaborating with these generous, talented, and thoughtful actors to make changes to her script in anticipation of its upcoming reading in Alaska (Last Frontier Theatre Conference 2016) and international premiere production in Australia (The Owl and Cat Theatre, Melbourne). More exciting Deadheads announcements to come!

UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television

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March- November 2016

Los Angeles, CA

Ali is proud to announce that she has been accepted into the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television’s Professional Program in Writing for Television. Over the next ten months, Ali will be studying TV writing online with top industry professionals. Students in this program focus on workshopping their teleplays and the goal is for each student to complete one spec script of an existing television show and two original pilot scripts by the end of the course. Upon finishing the program, Ali will receive a certificate from UCLA. She is excited to begin this journey in writing for a new genre andproud to join her father as the second (quasi) Bruin in the family!

Deadheads and Quick, Change

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December 2015- January 2016

New York, NY

Over the past few months, Ali has been busy writing new plays and revising old ones, including Deadheads and Quick, Change. To culminate this work, she had two very successful readings and feedback sessions. Ali is very grateful to work with such talented and supportive actors and thinkers. If you are interested in reading the updated drafts of her plays, please visit her profile on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/2286/ali-viterbi