“A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: Copyright © 1947 The University of the South.”A Streetcar Named Desire - Synopsis
A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams tells the story 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 fromwhat her sister expected, and Blanche is in constant conflict with Stanley, whom she finds rude,uneducated and disgusting. After a violent 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 andthat her past is much dirtier than the version she tells people. When Blanche falls in love withMitch, one of Stanley’s friends, and hopes that he will be the one to marry and save her, Stanleytells Mitch all of Blanche’s secrets. Therefore, Mitch leaves her and she becomes more and moreunwanted in Stanley’s household, despite Stella’s efforts to make 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 last scene,
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 and dance through the bodies of ourcompany's international women. We feel urged toexplore what it means to perform this pinnacle ofwhite US theater as women immigrants in New York
City, one of the most heterogeneous cities in theworld. Just as a reality-stricken Blanche longs for a
return to her imagined Belle Reve, we are outsiders
going through the painful struggle of letting go of
our past, while the promised land of NYC forces us
to face our truth: culturally diverse women still haveto fight to be heard.

Cast & Crew
Directed & Choreographed by SarAika Movement
Collective

Lighting Design by Jessica Wall

Associate Director: Marina Zurita

Prop & Costume Design by Federica Borlenghi
and Valentina Torresi

Produced by Et Alia Theater

Poster Design by Marieli Pereira

Performed by Ana Moioli, Giorgia Valenti, IsraelHarris, Luísa Galatti, Maria Müller

Photographer/Videographer: Ayanna
Nathifa/Gabriela AmerthStage Managed by Zeynep Akça

Press Agents: Gillian Britt and Isabella Gómez
Girón

Sound Design by Julio Vaquero Ramos

Brick Representative/Tech Operator: John-PhilipFaienza

Sara Pizzi (Director/Choreographer)
Sara Pizzi is an Italian contemporary-conceptual dancer and choreographer, now based inNYC. She attended Steps on Broadway and Peridance Center from which she graduatedin 2020. In the same year she founded her creative space S|R|P|Z working withinternational and national artists, producing live and virtual performances. Now, Sara isdancer for the NY based dance companies: “Valerie Green/Dance Entropy” by Valerie
Green, “The Next Stage Project” by Marijke Eliasberg and Jana Hicks, “VALLETO” byValeria Gonzales and “Open Dance Ensemble” by Philip Foster and co-funder with Aika
Takeshima of the movement collective sarAika.

Aika Takeshima (Director/Choreographer)
Aika Takeshima is a 10+ year career dance artist, writer, and diversity activist
from Osaka Japan. From 2014, Aika attended the International Dance Programfor 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 in themselves, she creates dance works, writes about
art/dance/LGBTQIA+ and founded 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 was recently 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 Supposedto 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 director born in São Paulo, Brazil. Among her credits
she has for The Time Being (by Ana Moioli) produced at the NY Winter Festival in 2020
and at Dixon Place (reading) in 2019; Love & Depositions co-directed with Acadia
Barrengos and Mollye Maxner; and Mother Tongue, an original piece conceived by her
and performed at UNCSA MainStage season in 2022. Marina Marina is currently anintern at Manhattan Theater Club and a Directing Fellow at Et Alia theater. In the fall she
will be joining the Kenan artistic fellowship at Kennedy Center and the Lab at A.P.E.

Ana Moioli (Performer)
Ana Moioli is a Brazilian, NY-based performer/multidisciplinary artist andCo-Artistic Director of Et Alia. She starred in 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 ofthe Above (Rattlestick), and On How to Be a Monster. She co-directed with Ryan
Cairns the short film 'Til Morning (Outstanding Drama – AOBFF), produced theshort 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 in collaboration with City Artist Corps,Irondale Women Festival, New Ohio Theater and Rattlestick 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 theshort film she co-starred in and co-produced ‘Til Morning (Best Drama at the Artof Brooklyn Film Festival). She graduated with Honors from NYU and loves todance, 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, and legislativeadvocacy. He graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of FineArts degree in Dance, a Minor in Psychology, and a Minor in Hebrew and JudaicStudies. He performed feature roles in works by Wayne McGregor and Ronald K.
Brown/EVIDENCE, and danced in works by Lar Lubovitch, Ori Flomin, Luca Renzi,and Valeria Gonzales. He is a current company member with Sean Curran Company,
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 Director of Creative Development of Et Alia Theater. She recently acted in theshow 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 home country, 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 part of 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 short film she wrote, produced, and starred in and for which she won Best
Actress at the Indie Short Fest - LA International Film Festival and was nominatedat 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 of foreign and immigrantvoices and offer them a space to explore and interchange their multiculturalperspectives. We use our art to expose the obstacles experienced by immigrant
women and empower our community. As a company who is committed to blurring
borders, Et Alia is not limited to a single form of work and is open to creating
conversations through different styles of theater. We strive to make the out ofplace, a place. Et Alia is Latin for ‘And Other’: we create art for the other, by theother, and about the other.

Federica Borlenghi (Prop/Costume Designer)
Federica Borlenghi is an Italian-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 Playat 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 share multicultural
stories about womanhood on the stage.

Valentina Torresi (Prop/Costume Designer)
Valentina is very excited to make her costume design debut in Et Alia’s Stella, ComeHome. Valentina studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and has
always been passionate about visual storytelling. When she’s not exhausting her sewing
machine, you can find Valentina styling brides at BHLDN. She wants to thank the wonderfulgroup of Et Alia’s international 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 musical theatre productions as composer, sounddesigner and musical director. His musicals have been performed in the major
theatres of Madrid and off Broadway Theatres in New York. He studied music
composition in the Royal 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 TheaterWriting.

Jessica Wall (Lighting Designer)
Jessica is a Canadian lighting designer and visual artist whose work focuses onbuilding immersive worlds and telling stories through the subconscious effects
light has on the audience. Select lighting design credits include The Garden ofAlice (City Lyric Opera), Or Festival (The Cultch), Fun Home; Daemon; The
Bacchae; Redacted; (Tisch Drama Stage), Elaine, Strips, At Liberty (The Tank),
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

Neri Per Caso

Song: Albachiara

Song: Cover of Donne by Zucchero@vascorossi@zuccherosugar

Music - Brazil
Liz RosaAbacaxepa

Song: Na Lama, Na Lapa

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

Malungo Beats
Song: Chega no Passinho

Divan Gattamorta@malungobeats

Song: Rapto*The artist created thissong specifically for theshow.

@divan_gattamorta

Tennessee Williams’ biography
Tennessee Williams was born in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi,
where his grandfather was the Episcopal clergyman. When hisfather, a travelling salesman, moved with his family to St Louissome years later, both he and his sister found it impossible tosettle down to city life. He entered college during the Depression
and left after a couple of years to take a clerical job in a shoecompany. He stayed there for two years, spending the evenings
writing. He entered the University of Iowa in 1938 and completed
his course, at the same time holding a large number of part-timejobs of great diversity. He received a Rockefeller fellowship in
1940 for his play BATTLE OF ANGELS, and he won the Pulitzer
Prize in 1948 for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in 1955
for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Other plays include SUMMER
AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, 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 thebeneficiary of the Tennessee Williams’ estate, including the copyrights to all his works. This gift was madeas a memorial to Williams’ grandfather, the Reverend Walter E. Dakin, who studied at the University’sseminary 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 to budding playwrights orauthors. 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 Fundsupports the department and its theatrical productions.
Visit www.sewanee.edu for more information.

Partners & Organizations that made this possibleStella, 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
Collaborators: Theresa Buchheister, Devon Wade Granmo.
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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