Downtown Urban Arts Festival
| Downtown Urban Arts Festival | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Arts festival |
| Dates | Spring (exact dates vary each year) |
| Location(s) | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Website | |
| duafnyc.com | |
Downtown Urban Arts Festival, or DUAF, formerly known as Downtown Urban Theater Festival, is an annual multi-disciplinary arts event held during the spring featuring theater, film, music and poetry at various venues in downtown Manhattan, New York City. It was inaugurated in 2002 as the Downtown Urban Theater Festival at the Here Arts Center in SoHo, New York City. In 2002, the festival was listed as one of the world's best festivals for new works.[1] The festival is produced by Creative Ammo Inc., a nonprofit organization.
2002 Season
Plays:
Cabico and Cho Show by Regie Cabico and Aileen Cho
Monk by Laurence Holder
The Revival – Church of the Living Womb by Liza Jessie Peterson and Tish Benson
Louise Escapes Her Life by Jane Lippman
Urban Creed by Mayda del Valle
Just Me by Helena D. Lewis
The Priestess and The Patriot by Liza Jessie Peterson
2003 Season
Plays:
Alphaphobia by Jessica Care Moore
At A Time Like This by Herb Donaldson
Blue Candy in the Twilight of Alchemy by Carl Hancock Rux
Culture Bandit by Vanessa Hidary
Destiny Manifested by James Gillard (Best Audience Award)
I Didn´t Cry by Sergia Perez
In the Last Car by Mums
Other Aspects by Reg E. Gaines (Best Play Award)
Sadico by Aileen Reyes
The Peculiar Patriot by Lisa Jessie Peterson
Untitled and Unfinished by Yolanda Wilkinson
2004 Season
Plays:
6 Hits by Claudia Alick[2] (Best Audience Award)
A Glass of Water by Bob Ost
A Latina Prepares by Desi Moreno-Penson (Best Short Award)
Hypno Astro n Matter by Kin Tommy Chan
Los Duendes by Mario Bosquez
Orenthal by Maarten van Hinte
Skinimin 12 by Jennifer Cendana Armas
Straight Out by Regio Cabico
The Northern Kingdom by Nancy Fales Garrett (Best Play Award)
Torched by Jeffrey Colt
Urban Creed by Mayda del Valle[3] (Best Audience Award)
Working Things Out by Mwalim
2005 Season
Plays:
3 To A Session: A Monster's Tale by Desi Moreno-Penson (Best Play Award)
Pendemonium by James Gillard
B4T: before testosterone by Imani Henry
Come Back to Me by Jesse Cameron Alick
Cross Lines: A Black Woman's Perspective by Ebony Washington and Patricia Belizario
Diary of a Baby Diva by Holly Bass
Inside Cherry Pitz by Cyndi Freeman
Stockholm, Brooklyn by Desmond Hall (Best Audience Award)
The Bronx Witch Project by Alba Sanchez
The Dakota by William Fowkes (Best Short Award)
Tours of Duty by Mel Nieves (Best Short Award)
2006 Season
Plays:
The Brighter Burn by Herb Donaldson
Black At Michigan by Dominique Morisseau
Call Me Crazy by Helena D. Lewis (Best Short Award)
When Santo Domingo Isn't Enough by Melissa Fendell (Best Play Award)
Georgia by Gian DiDonna
Speak Your Mind by Michael R. Ramirez
Touch by Francisco Roque
Trans Plantations by Janis Astor del Valle
Freedom by Emma Terese
Karen and Tomas I Touch Myself by Mel Nieves
Hearts and Minds by Joel Johnson (Best Audience Award)
2007 Season
Lessons on the A Train [4]
2008 Season
Plays:[5]
Osage Avenue by Jamal Williams
The Mummy and The Bodhisattva by Jai Chun and Mike Cipra
Missa Solemnis or The Play About Henry by Roman Feeser
On the Rocks by Dina Laura and Mina Radhakrishnan (Best Audience Award)
Honor and Fidelity by Tanya Perez
Ballad Of Sad Young Men by Jerome Augustus Parker
Couple Of The Century by William Fowkes
W.A.C. Iraq by Mel Nieves
This Train Is Bound For Glory by Patricia Ione Lloyd (Best Play Award)
Manchild Machismo by A.B. Lugo
El Building by Jane Lippman (Best Short Award)
Billie's Blues by Hershell Norwood
2009 Season
Plays:
Life Could be Un Sueño by Lina Sarrello
Man Up by Carlos Andrés Gómez (Best Short Award)
A Boy Called Noise by Julia Steele Allen (Best Short Award)
Alternate Side Street Parking by Dina Laura
The King's Mistress by Patricia Ione Lloyd
Solo Man Watusi by Mel Nieves
Where My Girls At? by Micia Mosely
America by Kim Yaged (Best Audience Award)
T. A.B. by Susan H. Pak
Right To Return by Pamela Sneed
VI Degrees by Kash Goins (Best Play Award)
Representa! by Paul S. Flores and Julio Cardenas
2010 Season
Plays:
Promise Tomorrow Today by Lawrence Dial (Best Play Award)
Museum Piece by William Fowkes
Making Moves by Dina Laura
Piñero Resurrected by Michele Cuomo and Ian Gonzalez Phillips
Confessions of a Homo Thug Porn Star by James Earl Hardy (Best Short Award)
VII Deadly Sins by Kash Goins (Best Audience Award)
The Choice by Riccardo Costa
After-Loss by Mel Nieves
Waiting For The D by Lina Sarrello
Glass by Imran Javaid[6]
Chakalaka by Cesi Davidson
Breathless by Stacey Osei-Kuffour
2011 Season
Plays:
Steps by Brinae Ali[7] (Best Short Award)
And Then It Rained by Kerri-Ann McCalla
Stretch Marks by Angela Kariotis
Crush by Dominic Colon
Indiosyncrasy by Indio Melendez (Best Play Award)
The XX Chromosome Genome Project by S. Ann Johnson (Best Audience Award)
Counselor by Stephen Cedars
Lost and Found by Marsha Sheiness
Resurrection by Subrina Moorley
I Scream Out Loud by Andre’ Jermaine Ford
Gentrified Minds (The NY Horror Vol. 2) by The Nomad Junkie
Gloves for Guns by David Lawson
Special Award:
Nilo Cruz (Playwright Master Award)[8]
2012 Season
Plays:[9]
Asylum by Cheril N. Clarke (Best Audience Award)
Death Boogie by Darian Dauchan
Flozetta by Nadine Graham
Kings by Anna Governali
Sammy Gets Mugged! by Dan Heching
Secrets; Love by Summer Dawn Hortillosa[10]
Ser: L.A. vs. B.A. by Karen Anzoategui
Sh*thole by Camilo Almonacid
Undertow by Mel Nieves
Co-op by Barbara Kahn (Best Short Award)
Jane Takes It In by Susannah Nolan
Reservations For 4 by Sam Sommer
Standing At … by Chandra Thomas
Suicide Notes by Adam Esquenazi Douglas
Kingdom Come by Matthew Osceola Webster (Best Play Award)
Special Award:
Adrienne Kennedy (Playwright Master Award)
2013 Season
3 the Hard Way by Chima Chikazunga
B-Boy Blues by James Earl Hardy[13] (Best Audience Award)[14]
Buttaflysoul for President by Leslie Buttaflysoul Taylor
Chosen by D. L. Siegel
El Gringuito by Eric-Dominique Perez
Gravy by Dana Tarantino
Help Wanted by Anselmo Coy Martinez
Ni****/Fa**** by Keelay Gipson
Novaya Zemlya by Mila Golubov (Best Play Award)[15]
Pornography for the People by Ming Peiffer
Prison Song by Nelson Diaz-Marcano
Rude by Ismail Azeem
The Bridge by Kate McCamy (Best Short Award)[16]
The Last Day of Oscar Wilde’s Life by Adam Esquenazi Douglas
The Rules of the World by Lavinia Roberts
True Asian Hottie by Jo Shui
2014 Season
Plays:
Blank Canvas by Christina Quintana (Best Short Award)[17]
Brooklyn Quartet by Rock Wilk
Caylee’s First Big Show!!!! by Roxie Perkins
Clippings by Royal Shiree
Deceiving - truth has the structure of fiction by Fabio Costaprado
Five-Sided Triangle by Gina Femia
Forever 27 by Adam Esquenazi Douglas[18]
Formosa by Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Gee, Thanks by Irene Hernandez
Grandma Kim vs. America by Jiyoung Kim and Claire Tran
Hoops by Gustav Gauntlett (Best Play Award)[19]
The Dark Nights of Lady Day by Andrina Smith[20]
The Messiah Complex by Nia Witherspoon (Best Audience Award)[21]
Toadstool Tea by Jamal Williams
Toy Soldierz by Javier Reyes
Two of Us by Paul Cosma Cimpoieru and Ana Pepine
Women at the Well by Martyna Majok
2015 Season
Bed Bugs and Hot Pockets by Shonali Bhowmik (Best Audience Award)[25]
Between a Hot Dog and a Hard Place by Mel Nieves (Best Short Award)[26]
Black Sheep by Darian Dauchan
Blackout03 by Kate Bell (Best Audience Award)[27]
Changing Tables by Kacie Devaney
Distortive Ascent by Nikolai Mishler
For the Flies by Camilo Almonacid
Good Morning for Coffee by Daphy Maman and Sujin Kim
Hypocrites & Strippers by Kim Yaged
La Bestia: Sweet Mother by Tom Block
Outside the Box by Irene Hernandez
Run, Hide. Be Quiet. by Shyla Idris
Say Something by Dominique Miller
Shenanigans by Helena D. Lewis
Spades by J. E. Robinson
Stigma by Keelay Gipson
Supermen by Adam Esquenazi Douglas (Best Play Award)[28]
Special Award:
Danny Hoch (Playwright Master Award)
Films:[29]
Adult Rappers written and directed by Paul Iannacchino, Jr.
Lana directed and written by Berman Fenelus
Little Talks directed and written by Yassen Genadiev
Hibernation directed by Jon Mikel Caballero (Best Mini Short Award)
Mousse directed and written by John Olof Hellberg (Best Film Award)
Nocturne directed and written by Gerdi Petanaj
Bullified written by Lee Kolinsky and directed by Steve Sage Goldberg
La Comida written and directed by Edward Pomerantz
Mona directed and written by Alexis Barbosa
Two written by Kari Morris and directed by Ryan Gielen
2016 Season
Plays:
Canned Laughter by Dean Preston
Cost of Exposure by Mel Nieves
Dine & Dash by Anghus Houvouras
Ferry Limbo by Chip Bolcik
Flip-in by John Foster
Homo Americanus by Paul Cosma Cimpoieru[30]
In the Library by Clyve Lagerquist
Love, Locs & Liberation by Ella Turenne
One Size Fits All by Irene Hernandez
Radical by Nelson Diaz-Marcano (Best Play Award)
Rags To Bitches by Tommy Jamerson (Best Short Award)
Recess by Una Aya Osato
Stop and Frisk by Matthew Widman
Strange Fruit Redux by Afrika Brown
The Bronx Queen by Joe Gulla (Best Audience Award)
trash by Alyssa Krompier and Justice Hehir
Twist & A Bridge by Jennifer Cendana Armas
When the Bell Rings You Shut the F*ck Up by Jim Bulluck
Films:[31]
Didn't I Ask for Tea? written and directed by Rahwa Asmerom and Essence Ward
Ask Alice written by Wendy Sax and directed by Nina Gielen
From a Cellphone written by Juy Vazquez and Silvina Rodriguez and directed by Juy Vazquez
A Muse of Ire written by Liviu Ungar and Paul Cosma and directed by Vas Troian
Take It Back written by Phil LoCastro and Rocco Gioia and directed by Aram “Spike” Bauman
Emma written by Rod G. Bogart and directed by Howard Lukk
About the Man and the Fish written and directed by Sergiu Semenescu
Ekaj[32] written and directed by Cati Gonzalez (Best Film Award)
Break written and directed by Nicholas Payne Santos
Music:
Corey Glover and Friends[33]
Poetry:
Words Matter Poetry Slam hosted by Helena D. Lewis[34]
2017 Season
Plays:
The Book of Leonidas by Augusto Federico Amador (Best Play Award)
Crooked Parts by Azure D. Osborne-Lee
dear dashboard by Justice Hehir
Don't Take Me Alive! By Alano Baez
Educated and Still Trapped by Cyd Charisse Fulton
Eternal Flamer! The Ballad of Jessie Blade by Tommy Jamerson
Father God Mother Death by Mario Golden
The Field Trip by Chip Bolcik (Best Short Award)
Garbo by Joe Gulla (Best Audience Award)
Harold and Rodney Play Chess by Adam Seidel
Honor Among Thieves by Juan Ramirez, Jr.
Malaise by Marcus Scott
Members Only by D. L. Siegel
The Problem of Verisimilitude by Jeff Tabnick
Protest by Nako Adodoadji
Salt Kid Watches Brooklyn Burn by Kati Looney
Where Was I? by Karen Ludwig
Films:[35]
An American Short Story written and directed by Antony Renault
Bardo directed by Scott Aharoni & Dennis Latos
Dreams directed by Brian Freeman, Charles Watts, André Correa
Excess Baggage written and directed by Mariachiara Manci
My Story written and directed by Juan Pablo Urbina-Rodríguez
Normal written and directed by Vadim Lasca (Best Short International)
Now What? directed by Anna Jones
Piece of Cake directed by Ella Lentini
Spoilers written, directed and edited by Brendon McDonall (Vanguard Award)
A State of Emergency directed by Tarek Roehlinger (Best Short Film)
Superimpose directed by Daniel Kaufman (Best Short Documentary)
Teapot directed by Alexander Gruszynski
Toyed written and directed by Jokes Yanes
Up Next directed by Domenic Yovina
We All Want To Fly written and directed by Shal Ngo
Woman Versus directed by Justina Grayman
Music:
Poetry:
Words Matter Poetry Slam hosted by Jaime Lee Lewis[37]
Venues
Here Arts Center (2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Abrons Arts Center (2004)
Cherry Lane Theatre (2005, 2006, 2017)
Theater for the New City (2010)
Manhattan Movement and Arts Center (2011)
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater (2016, 2017)
Nuyorican Poets Cafe (2016, 2017)
Tribeca Film Center (2016, 2017)
External links
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