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January 12, 2016
INVITATION: PEN World Voices International Playwrights Festival 2016
the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City Dear Conchi
León,
It is our honor to invite you to participate in the PEN World Voices: International Play Festival
here at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York on April
27, 28, and 29, 2016. Your play, Mestiza Power, has been selected to represent Mexico and
Central America
and will be read on April 29, 2016.
The Segal Center is presenting, in collaboration with the PEN World Voices Festival of
International Literature, World Voices: International Play Festival 2016. The Center will
showcase play readings by some of the world’s most respected dramatists. With each writer
hailing from eight different countries, the International Play Festival generates a conversation
on art, politics, dreams, war,
and philosophy, meant to give American audiences a rich awareness of the greater global
dialogue.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC), The Graduate Center, CUNY, is a non-profit
Center for theatre, affiliated with CUNY's Ph.D. Program in Theatre. The Center's primary focus
is to bridge
the gap between the academic and professional performing arts communities by providing
an open environment for the development of educational, community-driven, and
professional projects in the performing arts.
The Graduate Center, CUNY, of which MESTC is an integral part, was founded in 1961 as the
doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York, the nation’s largest urban
university system. Here 4000 students and over 1700 faculty scholars, drawn from throughout
the CUNY system and New York City’s leading cultural and scientific institutions, join in the
shared enterprises of teaching, learning, researching, and expanding the boundaries of
knowledge.
Your participation in this festival will be essential for the success of our event. Sincerely,
Dr. Frank Hentschker Executive Director