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A Streetcar Named Desire - Synopsis

A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams tells thestory of Blanche DuBois, a woman who, having lost her home
in Belle Reve, comes to New Orleans to stay with her sister,
Stella and her husband, Stanley. It quickly becomes apparent
that Stella’s world is very different from what her sister
expected, and Blanche is in constant conflict with Stanley,whom she finds rude, uneducated and disgusting. After aviolent episode he has, Blanche urges Stella to leave him, but
it is clear that Stella has no intention of doing so and that she
will put up with anything he does. In return, Stanley warns
Stella against her sister, telling her she is not who she claims
to be and that her past is much dirtier than the version she
tells people. When Blanche falls in love with Mitch, one of
Stanley’s friends, and hopes that he will be the one to marryand save her, Stanley tells Mitch all of Blanche’s secrets.
Therefore, Mitch leaves her and she becomes more and moreunwanted in Stanley’s household, despite Stella’s efforts tomake him go easy on her. He buys her a bus ticket and tells
her he wants her gone, after which he abuses her. In the lastscene, when Blanche has lost everything, she is taken away
by doctors, delusional and consumed.

About the show
Stella, Come Home is a dance-theater piece thattranslates the iconic American play A Streetcar Named
Desire, by Tennessee Williams, into movement anddance through the bodies of our company's international
women. We feel urged to explore what it means toperform this pinnacle of white US theater as womenimmigrants in New York City, one of the mostheterogeneous cities in the world. Just as areality-stricken Blanche longs for a return to her
imagined Belle Reve, we are outsiders going throughthe painful struggle of letting go of our past, while thepromised land of NYC forces us to face our truth:
culturally diverse women still have to fight to be heard.

Cast & Crew

Directed & Choreographed by SarAika Movement
Collective
Associate Director: Marina Zurita
Produced by Et Alia Theater
Performed by Ana Moioli, Giorgia Valenti, Israel Harris,
Luísa Galatti, Maria Müller
Stage Managed by Zeynep Akça
Sound Design by Julio Vaquero Ramos
Lighting Design by Jessica Wall
Prop & Costume Design by Federica Borlenghi andValentina Torresi
Poster Design by Marieli Pereira
Photographer/Videographer: Ayanna Nathifa/Gabriela
AmerthPress Agents: Gillian Britt and Isabella Gómez GirónSara Pizzi (Director/Choreographer)
Sara Pizzi is an Italian contemporary-conceptual
dancer and choreographer, now based in NYC.
She attended Steps on Broadway andPeridance Center from which she graduated in2020. In the same year she founded her creative
space S|R|P|Z working with international andnational artists, producing live and virtual
performances. Now, Sara is dancer for the NY
based dance companies: “Valerie Green/Dance
Entropy” by Valerie Green, “The Next Stage
Project” by Marijke Eliasberg and Jana Hicks,“VALLETO” by Valeria Gonzales and “Open
Dance Ensemble” by Philip Foster andco-funder with Aika Takeshima of the movement
collective sarAika.

Aika Takeshima (Director/Choreographer)
Aika Takeshima is a 10+ year career danceartist, writer, and diversity activist from
Osaka Japan. From 2014, Aika attended theInternational Dance Program for 3 years in
the academy Peridance Center in NYC
working with Amy Jordan “Victory Dance
Project Company”,
Ashlé Dawson“ESTADO INGRAVITTO”, Julia Eshstrand
and Elisabetta Minutoli. In order to help
people find more freedom and possibilities inthemselves, she creates dance works,
writes about art/dance/LGBTQIA+ andfounded an organization LIVABALL in 2020
aiming to make the society more livable.

Zeynep Akça (Stage Manager)
Zeynep Akça is a Brooklyn-based director, stage
manager, producer, and educator. She isoriginally from Istanbul, Turkey. She wasrecently the directing apprentice for Sam Goldon Macbeth on Broadway. She is currently
working on developing new and reimagined
works with fellow artists. Her favorite credits
include: Pocket Curiosities: Novae (Queerly),
Twelfth Night (Match:Lit), Dangerous Games(Brick Theater: ?! Festival), The Catamite(BBTF), [HAMLET CURSE QUOTE] (The Tank
Pride Fest), This Isn’t What It’s Supposed to
Be… (Devised with No Exit Theatre Collective),
The Argentinian Prostitute Play (BBTF). She is
the artistic director of No Exit Theatre Collective.

Marina Zurita (Associate Director)
Marina Zurita (she/her) is a theatre directorborn in São Paulo, Brazil. Among her credits
she has for The Time Being (by Ana Moioli)
produced at the NY Winter Festival in 2020 andat Dixon Place (reading) in 2019; Love &Depositions co-directed with Acadia Barrengos
and Mollye Maxner; and Mother Tongue, anoriginal piece conceived by her and performed
at UNCSA MainStage season in 2022. Marina
Marina is currently an intern at Manhattan
Theater Club and a Directing Fellow at Et Alia
theater. In the fall she will be joining the Kenanartistic fellowship at Kennedy Center and the
Lab at A.P.E.

Ana Moioli (Performer)
Ana Moioli is a Brazilian, NY-based
performer/multidisciplinary
artistand
Co-Artistic Director of Et Alia. She starredin CherryBomb (TV series), Elsewhere(ASFF - Best Actress Award), Julieta(Oaxaca) and I Am Love (Raindance). With
Et Alia, she performed in theater projects
such as This Is Me Eating___, None of the
Above (Rattlestick), and On How to Be a
Monster. She co-directed with Ryan Cairns
the short film 'Til Morning (Outstanding
Drama – AOBFF), produced the short film
The 2nd Act (Best Project - Latino Film
Market) and starred in her own play For
The
Time
Being
(NYWinterfest).
www.anamoioli.com

Giorgia Valenti (Performer)
Giorgia is an actress bouncing around the
USA and Italy. Most recently her and Et Alia’s
project This is Me Eating__ was incollaboration with City Artist Corps, Irondale
Women Festival, New Ohio Theater andRattlestick Playwrights Theater. Her favorite
on-camera work includes a co-starring role in
The Right Reasons (Best Supporting Actress
Nomination at the Lee Strasberg Film
Festival), and the short film she co-starred inand co-produced ‘Til Morning (Best Drama at
the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival). She
graduated with Honors from NYU and loves
to dance, sing and play sports! She sends
love to her friends.

Israel Harris (Performer)
Israel Harris is a Latino-American
originating from Guatemala, and raised in
Bellevue, WA. He is a Brooklyn-based artist
with specialties in dance instruction,
performance, choreography, video editing,social media and marketing practices, andlegislative advocacy. He graduated fromNYU Tisch School of the Arts with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, a
Minor in Psychology, and a Minor in Hebrew
and Judaic Studies. He performed featureroles in works by Wayne McGregor andRonald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, and danced
in works by Lar Lubovitch, Ori Flomin, Luca
Renzi, and Valeria Gonzales. He is acurrent company member with Sean CurranCompany, Drye Marinaro Dance Company,
and DanceAction.
Luísa Galatti (Performer)
Luísa Galatti is a Brazilian actress,
producer and makeup artist based in NYC.
She
is
the
Directorof
Creative
Development of Et Alia Theater. She
recently acted in the show This is Me
Eating___, directed by Debora Balardini, at
the Alchemical Studios. She wrote,
produced and starred in the award-winning
short film ’Til Morning. Back in her homecountry, Luísa performed in Distopia Brasil,a devised piece directed by Pedro Granato
and Cronicas de Nuestra América, by
Augusto Boal, directed by Marco Antonio
Rodrigues. She was an Assistant Director
and Guest Star on the TV Show
CherryBomb.

Maria Müller (Performer)
Maria Müller is an actor/writer/producer
and Co-Founding Artistic Director of Et
Alia Theater. Her theater credits include
White Rabbit Red Rabbit at Theater for
the New City, Little Egg, Big World as partof the National Women's Theater Festival
and This is Me Eating___, directed by
Debora Balardini. Her film credits include
the feature film Queen Marie of Romania
and Where Are You from Again? a shortfilm she wrote, produced, and starred inand for which she won Best Actress at theIndie Short Fest - LA International Film
Festival and was nominated at the Paris
Film Festival. www.marialuizamuller.com

Et Alia Theater is a NYC based theater company
founded and led by international women. We
bring together an unfamiliar combination offoreign and immigrant voices and offer them aspace to explore and interchange theirmulticultural perspectives. We use our art toexpose the obstacles experienced by immigrant
women and empower our community. As acompany who is committed to blurring borders,
Et Alia is not limited to a single form of work andis open to creating conversations throughdifferent styles of theater. We strive to make theout of place, a place. Et Alia is Latin for ‘And
Other’: we create art for the other, by the other,and about the other.

Federica Borlenghi (Prop/Costume Designer)
Federica
BorlenghiisanItalian-born
multidisciplinary artist mostly known for her
Direction and Writing. She has worked as Assistant
Set & Prop Designer to Patricia Marjorie for
Addressless at Rattlestick and as her Associate
Props Designer for Wolf Play at Soho Rep.
Costume & Wardrobe Design credits include
productions at the Italytime Cultural Center,
Alchemical Theater Lab, Denver Fringe & The
Tank, to name a few. Federica is thrilled to continue
her collaboration with Et Alia and to sharemulticultural stories about womanhood on thestage.

Valentina Torresi (Prop/Costume Designer)
Valentina is very excited to make her costumedesign debut in Et Alia’s Stella, Come Home.
Valentina studied acting at the Lee Strasberg
Theater and Film Institute and has always beenpassionate about visual storytelling. When
she’s not exhausting her sewing machine, you
can find Valentina styling brides at BHLDN. She
wants to thank the wonderful group of Et Alia’sinternational
women
for
all
their
encouragement.

Julio Vaquero Ramos (Sound Designer)
Julio Vaquero is an award-winning Spanish
composer currently living in New York. He
has been involved in dozens of musicaltheatre productions as composer, sounddesigner and musical director. His musicals
have been performed in the major theatresof Madrid and off Broadway Theatres in New
York. He studied music composition in theRoyal Music School of Madrid (Spain) and in
the Chopin University in Warsaw (Poland),furthering his studies in Great Britain with
Malcolm Singer and in Italy with Salvatore
Sciarrino. He got a MFA at NYU in Musical
Theater Writing.

Jessica Walll (Lighting Designer)
Jessica is a Canadian lighting
designer and visual artist whose work
focuses on building immersive worlds
and telling stories through thesubconscious effects light has on theaudience. Select lighting design
credits include The Garden of Alice(City Lyric Opera), Or Festival (The
Cultch), Fun Home; Daemon; The
Bacchae; Redacted; (Tisch Drama
Stage), Elaine, Strips, At Liberty (TheTank), Speech and Debate; Party
Worth Crashing (Our Time Players).

Music - Romania

Subcarpați
Songs: Rege pe Deal, Balada
Romanului@subcarpati_oficial

Shukar Collective
Songs: Malademna, Verbal
FightMusic - Italy

Elisa
Song: Eppure
Sentire@elisatoffoli

Vasco Rossi
Song: Albachiara@vascorossi

Neri Per Caso
Song: Cover of Donne by
Zucchero@zuccherosugar

Music - Brazil

Liz Rosa

Abacaxepa

Song: Na Lama, Na
Lapa

Songs: Por Enquanto É
Chuva / Pimenta@lizrosa.music@abacaxepa

Malungo Beats

Divan Gattamorta

Song: Chega no Passinho

Song: Rapto@malungobeats@divan_gattamorta*The artist created thisspecifically for the show.

songTennessee Williams’ biography
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, where his
grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When his father, a travelling
salesman, moved with his family to St Louis some years later, both heand his sister found it impossible to settle down to city life. He enteredcollege during the Depression and left after a couple of years to take aclerical job in a shoe company. He stayed there for two years, spending
the evenings writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 andcompleted his course, at the same time holding a large number ofpart-time jobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in
1940 for his play BATTLE OF ANGELS, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in1948 for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in 1955 for CAT ON A
HOT TIN ROOF. Other plays include SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSETATTOO, CAMINO REAL, BABY DOLL, THE GLASS MENAGERIE,ORPHEUS DESCENDING, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, THE NIGHT
OF THE IGUANA, SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, and THE
TWO-CHARACTER PLAY. Tennessee Williams died in 1983.

University of the South’s biography
The University of the South, a national ranked liberal arts
college and Episcopal seminary, is the beneficiary of theTennessee Williams’ estate, including the copyrights to all his
works. This gift was made as a memorial to Williams’
grandfather, the Reverend Walter E. Dakin, who studied at the
University’s seminary in 1895.
The Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund is used to support the
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Young Writers’
Conference, and the School of Letters. The Fund also
supports scholarships for students who wish to pursue
creative writing and fellowships which are granted annually tobudding playwrights or authors. Those fellows include Ann
Patchett, Claire Messud, Tony Early, and Mark Richard. The
Tennessee Williams Center houses the University’s theater
department, and a portion of the Fund supports thedepartment and its theatrical productions.
Visit www.sewanee.edu for more information.

Partners & Organizations that made thispossible

Stella, Come Home is sponsored, in part, by the Greater
New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City
Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn
Arts Council (BAC), as well as by A.R.T./New York’s
Creative Opportunity Fund and Strengthening NYC
Theatres Grant.

Special Thanks
Patrons: Cecilia Maria Pontes Santana,Francesca Cossa, Ryan Cairns, Luiza Müller, Ana
Paula Martins, Victoria Tornelli, John Titus, Banu
Bulat, Dan Flynn, John Robert Hammerer.

Board of Advisors: Annabel Ekelund, Melissa
Crespo, Whitney Uland, Angel Desai, Asiimwe
Deborah Kawe.

Volunteers: Irmak Hatirli, Julia Wosiak.

Friends and Family: Ryan Cairns, Cornelius
Boeder, Robert Malbrough, Luca Napolitano,
Kaylee Rodriguez, Jude Fernandes, Amit
Barnathan, and everyone else who keeps
supporting us and showing up!

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