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Harrison David Rivers [Playwright] is a Kansas born New York based playwright. His work has been developed and produced at The American Airlines Theater on Broadway, Lincoln Center, Atlantic Theater, the Lucille Lortel Theater, Atlantic Stage 2, New York Theatre Workshop, Second Stage, Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, HERE Arts Center, the 45th Street Theater, South Oxford Space, Dixon Place, 3LD Art & Technology Center and the Sundance Theater Lab on Governor’s Island. Honors: 2011 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Play, Excellence in Playwriting Award (FringeNYC 2010), The Advocate’s Top 10 LGBTQ FringeNYC 2010, 2009 Montblanc Young Writers Competition Winner, 2009 John Golden Award (Columbia University), 2010-11 Van Lier Fellowship (New Dramatists), 2009-10 Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship (New York Theatre Workshop), and residencies with Freedom Train, NYTW/Dartmouth and Urban Arts Partnership. He is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a member of The Movement Theater Company, the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, the Old Vic/New Voices Network and the Artistic Director of At Play. M.F.A. Playwriting, Columbia University; B.A. American Studies and Dance & Drama, Kenyon College.

DAVID MENDIZÁBAL [Director] is a New York based director and the Artistic Director of The Movement Theatre Company [TMTC]. While at TMTC he has helped create development programs such as the Elevator Reading Series, the Ladder Series, and GO GREEN. He most recently directed the North-American premiere of Bintou by Koffi Kwahulé, translated by Chantal Bilodeau, which was nominated for three AUDELCO Awards. Previous directing credits include: Eggs, Bacon and Toasts (NYMadness), WHOA (Joe’s Pub), we are misquoted texts... (Columbia University), The Gate, Suzan-Lori Parks' 365/ University, POLAROID STORIES, FUR, and Inside the Belly of the Beast (NYU). Assistant directing credits: Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark dir. Jo Bonney (Second Stage Theatre), Prixe Fixe dir. Trip Cullman (Naked Angels), Single Black Female dir. Colman Domingo (New Professional). He is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he trained at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School.

look upon our lowliness

By Harrison David Rivers

Conceived and Directed by David Mendizábal

 

In the wake of Tyler Davidson’s death,

Seven friends grapple with the mystery of his life.

Part meditation

And part celebration

LOOK UPON OUR LOWLINESS explores the interconnectedness of

Love, Sexuality, Masculinity and Grief.

 

Monday, May 23, 2011

6:30pm – 7:30pm – Cocktail Reception featuring the Photography of Stanley Stellar

7:30pm – 9:00pm – look upon our lowliness Staged Reading