FUSION Theatre Company Presents SPAIN by Jen Silverman
A Staged Reading
THEATRE | february 17–18 | $20–40
FUSION Theatre Company presents a staged reading of SPAIN by Jen Silverman. FUSION’s production, directed by Laurie Thomas, stars Malcom Stokes, Rachel Wiseman, Peter Diseth, Ryan Jason Cook, and Matthew Yde.
The production will run February 17–18. Performances will be held at FUSION | 708 in downtown Albuquerque. Performances will be Saturday, February 17th, at 7 PM, and Sunday, February 18th, at 2 PM. Find details on the rest of the season here!
General Admission: $40 | Seniors over 65: $35 | Students: $20 | Thanks to the City of Albuquerque Pay What You Wish ticketing is available.
SPAIN
Here are the clues: sangria, bulls, and naps. Add them up and you’ve got SPAIN by Jen Silverman. It's 1936, and a pair of passionate filmmakers have landed their next big project: a sweeping Spanish Civil War film with the potential to change American hearts and minds. It just happens to be bankrolled by the KGB. This seductive and funny new play about the art of propaganda and the dangerous ongoing Disinformation Age explores how art can change the world—for better and worse.
ABout jen silverman
Jen Silverman (they/them) is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter, as well as a FUSION alum. Two of their short plays were winners of THE SEVEN, FUSION's short works festival, in 2008, and one, THE EDUCATION OF MACALOCO, was performed by FUSION at the Samuel French OOB Festival, winning Jen their first publishing and licensing contract. FUSION also produced Jen's play THE MOORS, as well as their original book for the company's children's theatre tour of PRINCESS MARISOL AND THE MOON THIEVES.
Plays include: SPAIN; COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN 5 BETTIES; THE ROOMMATE; AND WITCH. Their plays have been produced off-Broadway (Second Stage Theatre, MCC Theater, The Playwrights Realm), across the US (Steppenwolf, The Goodman, The Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Huntington, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Writers Theatre etc), and internationally in Australia, the UK, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, and elsewhere.
Books include: the debut novel WE PLAY OURSELVES (named one of the best books of the year by Buzzfeed; a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), story collection THE ISLAND DWELLERS (finalist for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize), and new novel THERE’S GOING TO BE TROUBLE forthcoming from Random House in April 2024.
Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of New Dramatists, and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. They wrote THE MIRANDA OBSESSION as a narrative podcast for Audible, starring Rachel Brosnahan. They also write for TV and film, including TALES OF THE CITY (Netflix) and TOKYO VICE (HBO/Max). Honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim.
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