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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

WATERWELL
EXTENDS
SITE-SPECIFIC WORLD PREMIERE OF
“THE COURTROOM”
A RE-ENACTMENT OF DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS
BY POPULAR DEMAND

TEXT ARRANGED BY ARIAN MOAYED
DIRECTED BY LEE SUNDAY EVANS

TEASER TRAILER AVAILABLE HERE

New York, NY (January 15, 2019) – Waterwell is pleased to announce the extension by popular demand of the World Premiere site-specific production of The Courtroom, a re-enactment of deportation proceedings, with text arranged from real court transcripts by Waterwell co-founder and Tony Award^® nominee Arian Moayed, and featuring direction by Waterwell Artistic Director and Obie Award^® winner Lee Sunday Evans. Previously scheduled for only four performances, The Courtroom has added three performances to the following week. Tickets are free and available now at waterwell.org. The final performance schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, January 23 at 7:00pm
At the Fordham University School of Law (150 West 62nd Street)

Thursday, January 24 at 6:30pm
At the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse (40 Foley Square)

Friday, January 25 at 6:30pm
At the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse (40 Foley Square)

Saturday, January 26 at 7:00pm
At the Fordham University School of Law (150 West 62nd Street)

Wednesday, January 30 at 7:00pm
At St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery (131 East 10^th Street)

Thursday, January 31 at 7:00pm
At the Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South)

Friday, February 1 at 7:00pm
At the Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South)

As previously announced, the cast will feature Happy Anderson, Michael Braun, Tony Award nominee and four-time Obie Award winner Kathleen Chalfant, Hanna Cheek, Michael Bryan French, Mick Hilgers, Tony Award winner Ruthie Ann Miles, Linda Powell, and Kristin Villanueva.

The Courtroom is a re-enactment of deportation proceedings. In 2004, an immigrant from the Philippines who was married to a U.S. Citizen came to this country on a K3 Visa. After inadvertently registering to vote at the DMV in Chicago, receiving a voter registration card in the mail, and voting, her removal proceeding was set in motion. It began in Immigration Court and her case was eventually heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7^th Circuit. The Courtroom will be performed entirely verbatim from the court transcripts.

The Courtroom is co-sponsored by Fordham Law School and made possible by the lead support of Angelina Fiordellisi.

ABOUT WATERWELL

Waterwell (Lee Sunday Evans, Artistic Director; Adam J. Frank, Managing Director; Heather Lanza, Director of Education; Arian Moayed, co-founder and Board Chair) is a non-profit, civic-minded theater and education company that strives to prove itself a vital presence in the lives of its audience by remaining always responsive: responsive to the events affecting the world, to changing modes of expression, and to the individuals attending each performance. Through entertainment and arts education, Waterwell hopes to inspire audiences and students to change their lives and the world in which they live. The company’s two most recent productions were a dual-language, English-Farsi Hamlet, and Blueprint Specials, a collection of short musicals written during WWII performed by a 60+ cast comprised of veterans and professional actors on the hangar deck of the Intrepid Air + Space Museum. Founded in 2002 by Arian Moayed and Tom Ridgely, the company’s blend of music, theater, and social dialogue has been nominated for a Drama Desk, a New York Magazine Culture Award, and a Village Voice Best of NYC. The New York Times hails the company’s work as, “brilliant, original, and inspired. Alive enough to surprise even the performers themselves,” and TheaterMania writes, “Waterwell has staked a claim on our collective conscience.” Since 2003, Waterwell has offered structured classes in collaborative play-making, or “devising.” By 2010, those educational activities had grown and coalesced into the Waterwell Drama Program, which now delivers – in partnership with the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) – top-quality, year-round, in-school theater training to over 200 NYC public school students. The program cultivates the student-artist holistically, demands that they develop both as an interpreter and as a creator, and aims to place their work in dialogue with what’s going on outside the classroom – in their homes, communities, and the world at large.

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