2008 New York International
Theater, Film & Arts Festival
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to be held at
The Bleecker Street Theatres45 Bleecker Street
New York City, News York 10012
19th January 2008 to 23rdFebruary 2008
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The 2008 New York International Theater, Film and Arts Festival
NYITFest
The 2008 New York International
Theater, Film and Arts Festival
NYITFest
to be held at the Bleecker Street Theaters45 Bleecker Street,
New York City, New York State, 10012
from the 19th January 2008 to 23rd February 2008
www.nyitfest.com
presents outstanding acts from fringe festivals around the world. Festivals such as the Edinburgh, Dublin, Australian and New York Fringe festivals will be represented, featuring performers presenting their writing, theater, films, art and comedy.
The New York International Theater Film and Arts Festival
will be held annually in New York City,
beginning 19th January and running to the 23rd February, 2008
at 45 Bleecker Street Theaters, New York City. The acts selected have received one of the USA Weekly News 100 star awards for holding a higher standard than the average 5-star awards normally given by the media industry. The USA Weekly News are the major sponsors of the New York International Theatre Film and Arts Festival, but the but the NYITFest hopes other sponsors in the business, media, entertainment, music, dance, art, internet, computer and telecommunications and film industries will come forward to help support this extremely and necessary worthwhile event.
Through being invited to perform at the NYITFest, the selected acts will be able to perform in the world's spotlight to further their careers in acting, dancing, directing, film-making, music, writing, singing, comedy. It is hoped that this will bring world-wide attention to these special performances.
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will also promote and display the performances that have been selected by the editorial team of the USA Weekly News, International News Limited and inlnews.com, as outstanding acts from fringe festivals around the world which include the Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, Australian and additional fringe festivals each year. Any outstanding performance that has received the special 100 star USA Weekly News Award for being far outstanding to the other performances that only received the ordinary industry standard five star ward, will be included in the list for selection to be invited to perform at the New York International Theatre, Film and Arts Festival.
The NYITFest will be unlike fringe festivals in that the acts have will have had to go through a very stringent selection process. The audiences of the New York International Theatre, Film and Arts Festival will be assured that each performance will be one that is too good to miss.
The performances for the New York International Theatre, Film and Arts Festival will be selected from all types of genres, thus there will be a wide variety for performances for all tastes with an assurance that each act will be of a very high industry standard.
The years inaugural 2008 New York International Theatre, Film and Arts Festival has selected the following acts to perform:
1. Molly Bloom
Well respected Irish actress Eilin O'Dea in her performance of " Molly Bloom" an extract from James Joyce's "Ulysses" Paris 1922. The writer and the actress speak for themselves, in this academy award quality performance of James Joyce's Ulysses Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of the James Joyce's "Ulysses". This is recognised as one of the most famous female narratives in modern literature..
2. Traditional t's a Cultural Thing.... or Is It?" and
and “Mobile”
Traditional t's a Cultural Thing.... or Is It?" and “Mobile”Irish actor Michael Collins from the travelling community performing his outstanding self penned plays called, " It's a Cultural Thing....or Is It?" and “Mobile”. These two plays are a not to be missed, authentic true history of the Irish travelling community. When asked how long it took him to write these two unique plays, Michael Collins replied.... "about 24 years".
In " It's a Cultural Thing.... or Is It?", Michael plays out the history of the Irish travelling community from the eyes of child , the storyline consisting of actual childhood memories from Michael's childhood. This is a very emotional play for Michael Collins to perform, because during the performance memories of his father John Collins, a well respected member of the Irish Community, are there at every turn. This play is excellent for school children all the way to senior adults, which is how the mixture was in the recent sell out performance in Dublin on the 20th November 2007 of " It's a Cultural Thing.... or Is It?". Not only were the adults in fits of laughter, suspense and intrigue, but the school children in the audience were in fits of laughter all the way through the play, as Michael Collins enacted an outstanding child performance. Not only were the adults in fits of laughter, suspense and intrigue, but the school children in the audience were in fits of laughter all the way through the play, as Michael Collins enacted an outstanding child performance.
Not only were the adults in fits of laughter, suspense and intrigue, but the school children in the audience were in fits of laughter all the way through the play, as Michael Collins enacted an outstanding child performance. "Mobile" is performed by Michael Collins as a young adult in the travelling community, and shows the difficulties travellers had in dealing with Irish life as against settled people. Again, this play is an excellent lesson in Irish history that should not be missed by anyone interested in what it really was like to be a member of the travelling community in Ireland over the last 100 years.
3. "All Change",
written and performed by seasoned English / Australian stand up comedian, Kerry Leigh. Kerry was born in England but was educated at the Curtain University in Western Australia where she completed a BA with Honours, studying English with a double major in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts. Kerry Leigh says this about her play
"All Change" -- "Juggling isn't easy - some days you hand your baby a beer and ask your man if he's done a pooh-pooh. Has this funny mummy gone gaga? Ride the highs and lows of a comedian's experience of first-time motherhood as she shares her story with painful honesty and curious humour...."
Often mistaken for an Antipodean, Kerry was sent to Australia as a convict when she was just 9 years old for heinous crimes against fashion, returning to the UK in her twenties where she has since developed a dry and witty comedic style musing on the absurdities of life through the eyes of a pseudo-Australian.
4. Jessica Delfino
who went to Philadelphia Art Institute, which Jessica says is "the home of brotherly love...where the brothers love each other." After being seen by the INL News Team in London and at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with her show entitled, Songs About Vaginas, , she was invited to join the NYITFest. Jessica has had some her songs banned by you tube and denounced….. yes…. denounced by the Catholic League. Jessica destroyed the audiences in London and in Edinburgh, when she brought her one woman show to the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is hard to describe Jessica using just words, however the USA Weekly News described her performance as "innocently provocative."
5. Beat Up Dirty Yanks Crew,
An out-there character Los Angeles comedy group, now well-known as the Beat Up Dirty Yanks Crew, Ronnie Proudy, Tim Schwartz and Ty Twiss, after the show they presented at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival blew audiences away with laughter. These zany guys have the unique ability to interact with any type of audience, any where in the world without any script what so ever. These guys are improvisation specialists in character comedy, and are America's most idiotic, obnoxious, and energetic outcasts. Their now infamous Beat Up Dirty Yanks show in Edinburgh was a comedic character smack down slammed with stand-up, sketch and improvisation. Some contenders included Buck, a Jewish soul loving hick and Hector, a chauvinistic Mexican plumber. You simply never know what to expect from these guys so there is no way to put a title on the show they will present at the 2008 New York International Theater, Film and Arts Festival, other than they promise it will be show to remember and not to be missed. When Ronnie Prouty, the leader of the Beat Up Dirty Yanks Gang was invited to perform at the 2008 New York International Theater, Film and Arts Festival his response was, "I am very excited to go to the NYITFest, I will bring a variety show that will blow your top off."
So, be warned -- these guys are going to be armed and dangerous.
6. The FAMOUS Bite Size team
bring you the best short 10 minute plays in the world. Great comedy is provided to all by the Bite Size Team, British actors and Comedians playing the best of Aussie and British humour.
7. Day In Dig Day Nation,
is another quality futuristic play from the Flying Carpet Theatre...
http://flyingcarpettheatre.com/dig1.htm Animation-Virtuoso-political satire..
Discover how an office drone becomes superhero, rock star and post-apocalypic scientist all in one day...."The Future of Theatre! Don't Miss this show!" Seattle Weekly http://flyingcarpettheatre.com/dig1.htm
8. Attempt 3.4 The Film
- Attempt 3.4 was an Edinburgh Fringe play now a film -
Four Two Planners of the Apocalypse Draw the Blueprint and build the city in 60 minutes. Attempt 3.4 unfolds a map of the city. Four people, lost. Coloured light bulbs illuminate their search for each other as they travel the grid of the city.
Sometimes they meet,
sometimes they just brush shoulders,
sometimes they slip through the web,
but instead of loss, they discover the pleasure of falling.... Filmed from the last live performance at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and produced by International News Limited association with Bitter Blue Productions, this is one of the very first times an Edinburgh Fringe Play has been turned into a feature film.
9. Das Contras --
a great Scottish Jass-Rock-Funk fusion band that ripped audiences apart at the 2007 Wickerman Music and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. Scotland rocks with Scottish band Das Contras -- one of the best bands to come out of Scotland this decade.
For more information about Das Contras, please visit:
http://www.usaweeklynews.com/DasContrasScotland_sBest.html
10. Japanese artist Shizuko Kiyohara.
Art will be on displayed by amazing talented Japanese artist Shizuko Kiyohara.
Education
1992 Completed research study at Joshibi University of art and Design
1998 Internship trainee, Ministry of Education, Japan
Exhibition
Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition/Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
(The national museum of Modern Art Tokyo Prize)
The Japan Print Associate Exhibition /Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
('97 Associate member prize , '98 New Comer Prize )
International Biennial in Gyor/Hungary , In Seoul/Korea,
Georgian College, Canada Tikotin Museum of Israel etc.
Public Collection
The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art , Kamakura and Hayama, Japan
Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art ,Israel Gyor Museum, Hungary
For more information on Japanese artist Shizuko Kiyohara and her to view her artwork visit: http://www.geocities.jp/shizko_web/ and
http://www.acearth.com/index.php?showtopic=374
11. My Space! The Musical!-
A two-hander presented by Wicked Sharp Productions.
A journalist has been murdered. The only clue, the word Myspace written on his notebook.
It’s up to private eye Bill Monthly to investigate.
In this “crazy cartoon world”, we meet:
the beautiful, but deadly Lilly Allen, as assassin in the employ of powerful newspaper baron Rupert Murdoch;
Sir Alan Sugar Murdoch’s babbling, incoherent friend; and
a shadowy, ambiguous figure named Facebook.
“ An exuberant and funny Fringe show, throwing its spears at plenty of targets.”
Ivan Howlett, BBC Radio Four.
“ Myspace! The Musical! play it not for the week minded, besides being extremely cleverly written and acted, funny and witty, there is a strong important message that comes out throughout the play, that needs to be said, as the saying goes,…..many a true word is said in jest…..MY Space! The Musical! definitely deserves the 100 USA Weekly News Award….” USA Weekly News. Warning! Strong language is used in this play.
Myspace! The Musical! is not for the week minded or timid. We know Rupert Murdoch will be there, as we know he is definitely not week minded or timid, you will see Rupert Murdoch and Facebook head to head, come and see Myspace! The Musical! to find out........the outcome?
