Community based storytelling is the core of our work. Docbloc's nonfiction storytelling residencies bring teaching artists to work directly in senior, youth, and community centers in developing original, devised nonfiction theatre and performance events.
Documentary Theatre and Storytelling with Older Adults
March 3rd through June 23rd, 2023
1:00 pm and 3:00 pm
Carter Burden Luncheon Older Adult Center
351 East 74th Street
Join us for a series of theatre and visual media devising workshops in acting, writing, movement, video, and photography. Participants will collectively create a play script where they share oral histories and theatrically present topics most important to them. Documentary Theatre workshops engage community members in writing and performing stories from their personal lives and community histories. Participants will share their work in a final staged reading for friends and family.
Our spring 2023 residency is made possible through generous support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Su-Casa Program, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the NYC Department for Aging.
TEACHING ARTISTS
Ash Marinaccio and Maria Litvan
Maria Litvan, born in Uruguay and raised in Barcelona, is a theatre director and playwright based in New York City. She trained as an actress before moving to New York in 1997, where she studied film and theatre at Hunter College. She is the recipient of several awards, including the John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting, the John Gassner Award, and in Catalonia, the Premi Josep Robrenyo. Besides developing her own work, Maria has collaborated with international companies such as La Fura dels Baus, Brith Gof, Malqueridas, LorRojo, and The New Stage Theatre. Her latest production, Prologue (2018), is a tribute to the French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Maria has an M.A. in Individualized Studies at Gallatin, NYU, with a concentration in perception, mysticism, and performing arts, and is currently a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
