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Award-winning documentary play "In One Room" in its second performance for the Tri-Cities. "In One Room," a documentary play based on more than 100 interviews conducted in 2002 with gay, lesbian and questioning youth under the age of 25, will be back by popular demand, Sunday, March 1st. The play, which will be performed at Vista Youth Center/Gettmann Hall on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 2:30pm is written and directed by Jimmy Maize, a 2002 Whitman graduate who currently writes, directs, acts and produces theater in New York. "Representing towns across the country, big and small, these stories are meant to create a pastiche of growing up gay in 21st century America," said Maize. This production of the play is sponsored by The Pride Foundation and the Whitman College GLBTQ; proceeds will go to support the VISTA Youth Center in (Kennewick). "In One Room" was first performed in 2002 on the Whitman College campus, where it received the college's David Nord Award. Whitman GLBTQ presents the play annually in order to foster a dialogue of diversity and acceptance on campus. When the play debuted at the Bailiwick Repertory Theater in Chicago in 2003, it received the theater's first college/university playwriting competition. In 2005 it was presented in New York City by "Tosos II," the city's first gay theater company. Maize is the artistic director of "The Theater Bureau," a New York company comprised largely of Whitman College graduates. He works with Tectonic Theater Project, and he has recently begun tracking the changes in Laramie, Wyo., as the tenth anniversary of Matthew Shepard's murder approaches. When complete, his research will result in a production afterward to the company's "The Laramie Project." |
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Vista Youth Center | 2625 W Bruneau Pl Ste E | Kennewick | WA | 99336 |