AUGUST 20-21, 2008 @ 7PM: Submerged From All Sides As Softly Aquatic Music Dances/With The LIGHT Shimmering On Water’s Edge Like Shiny/Quarters N’ Dimes, I LAUGH Darkly and Sing Like a Hurricane/Drifting out to The World's End
by Aurin Squire
Director: Christopher Burris
Featuring: Christopher Burris*, Ronald De Suze, Graeme Humphrey,
Sarena Kennedy, Fatima Quander*, and Sara Towber*
*Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association
Fire! New Play Festival
@ South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street in Ft Greene, BK
+ Artist Q&As follow all performances.
In Aurin Squire's new play, he uses laughter to call out just how uptight our society is about sex. Can change happen? After Submerged from All Sides..., your hurtin' stomach just might have the answer.
Aurin Squire on Art, Water, and Being Submerged
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Aurin Squire is a playwright in residence at Freedom Train Productions and an award-winning screenwriter from Opa Locka, Florida. He graduated with honors from Northwestern University and completed his MFA at the Actors Studio Drama School. Squire worked as a radio journalist, magazine editor and reporter for publications like Chicago Tribune, ESPN, and Miami Herald. His plays have been produced around the country including his dark comedy To Whom It May Concern which was awarded best play and best playwriting at the Fresh Fruit Gay and Lesbian Festival. He also writes a cartoon, BodegaAve.com, which is based around the Brooklyn neighborhood where he currently lives.
