We’re going to Bogotá, Colombia!

as a part of the the 2024 biennial Festa Alternativa.

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In 2015, NPTC Artistic Director, Melody Brooks, was invited by Patricia Ariza, Artistic Director of the Colombian Theatre Corporation, to attend a regional conference in Bogotá, "Art & Culture for Peace". Brooks had met Ariza in 2014 when she was in NYC to receive the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award, which Brooks had co-produced. This began our collaboration with this amazing company, and as it turned out, one with a kindred spirit.

We produced JIHAD: The Play, developed in the Women's Work LAB in August of 2015 for the "Women On Stage for Peace" Festival, but the demands of presenting a full-length production were daunting, so we decided to present two of the plays from the Short Play LAB in the 2016 biennial Festival de Teatro Alternativo (Festa.) We returned in 2018 with two more short plays, but then had to attend virtually in 2020 and 2022.We are the only English-language company invited, so we use Spanish subtitles to make the work accessible to local audiences.

This year we are taking an expanded short play by Amalia Oliva Rojas, It's Not So Bad in My Brain. Amalia recently won the LATA award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting for How to Melt ICE,which NPTC produced a year ago in collaboration with Boundless Theatre Company. It's Not So Bad... was presented in the Women's Work Short Play Festival, Approval Pending, in 2019. The expanded version is taking into account the changes in the world since then, and Amalia's growth as a playwright. The piece is directed by Melody Brooks, and will feature Penelope Deen and Andrés López-Alicea. Callie Stribling is Stage Manager.