June 14-16, 2019
The Plaxall Gallery
Long Island City, NY
Written by Katrin Arefy
Music Composer Tyler Agnew
Casting Associate Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Assistant Director Wenxuan Xue
Directed by Ali Jamali
Cast Isaac J. Conner, Marie Dinolan, Louise Heller, Ali Jamali, Feryal Kilisli, Jonas Kobberdal, Andy Lachman, Anuj Parikh, Giselle Samson, and Danny Schwarz
Photos and Videos by Aline Salloum
PMU aims to question the idea of us versus the other. In the first play of the trilogy, The Elbisnopsers!, breaking news about a distant civilization turns the prosaic tedium of a middle-class households day to a tempest in a teapot. Their attempt to overcome their fear-inducing ignorance by turning to their limited resources results in a farcical event. In the second play, A Massacre, discovering a pile of dead bodies in the middle of an office, work colleagues become embroiled in repetitive, predetermined, and nonnegotiable discussions. In the final play, Love is a Carrot! Or Can You Love the Umbrella?, six pseudo-intellectual housemates get into endless groundless arguments, contradicting themselves and creating a cacophony of mad unreason. Unable to listen to each other or think outside of their very limited open minds, the characters are truer to our own world than we would like to believe.
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BroadwayWorld: PEACE, A MASSACRE, AND THE UMBRELLA Premieres At The Plaxall Gallery
March 19, 2019
Feinstein's/54 Below
New York, NY
Produced by Julia Salkin
Directed by Ali Jamali
Musical Direction by Marc Jablonski
Starring Kathryn Allison, Jessie Cannizzaro, Tyler Conroy, Peter LaPrade, Andy Miller, Kilraine Pinyard, Taylor Richardson, Ryan Wesley Stinnett, and Harry Waller
Photos by Rebecca J Michelson
Filmed by FAMOUS IN NY
Muggles and wizards rejoice! We’re bringing the magic to Feinstein’s/54 Below with 54 Pays Tribute to A Very Potter Musical! Join us for an unforgettable one night only celebration of the musical and comedic genius of Team StarKid*, featuring performances by your favorite bewitching Broadway stars! So pack your trunks and send your owls, because we’ve gotta get back to Hogwarts!
*This is an unofficial cabaret performance of the music of Team StarKid’s A Very Potter Musical & A Very Potter Sequel, and will not be performed by the shows’ original cast members and/or writers. A part of the proceeds from this event will be donated to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
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BroadwayWorld: 54 PAYS TRIBUTE TO A VERY POTTER MUSICAL At Feinstein's/54 Below
NYWinterfest 2019 at New York Theater Festival
January 17-20, 2019
Hudson Guild Theater
New York, NY
Written and Produced by Maddie Dennis-Yates
Light Designer Ash Zeitler
Casting Associate Rebecca Wei Hsieh
Directed by Ali Jamali
Cast Silvia Dionicio, Louise Heller, Katharine Maness, Elvin James, and Simon Schaitkin
Photos by Ashley Comer
A sculptor's creative block produces a piece so powerfully inscrutable that it brings years of tension between two friends to a head on their visit to a gallery. At the Gallery is a comedy about art, artists and their assistants, female friendship, success and lack thereof.
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BroadwayWorld: AT THE GALLERY Comes To NYWinterfest 2019 At New York Theater Festival
Aug. 13 - first (and final) meeting of the tj-maxx dying dreams conglomerate?? details wthn
August 13, 2018
Acorn Theatre/Theatre Row
New York, NY
By Hannah Manikowski
Directed by Ali Jamali
Produced by Alexandra Cadena
Cast Missy Hamblet, Alexandra Slater, Simon Schaitkin, Karoline Xu
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Playbill: Over 35 Actors, Playwrights, and Directors Announced for 24 Hour Plays: Nationals
BroadwayWorld: THE 24 HOUR PLAYS: NATIONALS Find Their 2018 Company
American Theatre: The 24 Hour Plays Announces 2018 Nationals Company Members
The Knockturnal: The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Debut Future Broadway Talent
February 1-4, 2018
The Tank
New York, NY
Directed and Produced by Ali Jamali
Directed by Calley Luman, Chris Goodrich, Elvin James Patrick, Orlando Rodriguez
Lighting Designer Matt Catron, Kai Magee
Featuring Lluvia Almanza, Francesca Anderson, Caroline Burke, Marguerite Frarey, Sophia Gutchinov, Abigail Milnor-Sweetser, Peter Qin, Jaspreet Saund, Marjay Smith, Rodrikus Springfield, Dana Stern, Stephen G. Tabor, Bailey Van Schepen
Photos by Gerardo del Valle
Why do we dream? How can our reality shape and influence our dreams or vice versa?
Reveries: An Immersive Theatrical Experience is a devised exploration of the phenomenon that is dreaming. A hybrid of installation art, movement, music, and theatre, Reveries presents a collaborative effort to stimulate its audience's imagination by immersing them in five pieces that reflect the complexity of our dreams and our various interpretations of them.
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BroadwayWorld: REVERIES: An Immersive Theatrical Experience to Play The Tank
Theater in the Now: Know Before Your Show: Reveries- an immersive theater experience
March 7-9, 2017
Patricelli '92 Theater, Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
By Complicité
Directed by Ali Jamali
Assistant Director Yichen Eva Lou
Lighting and Projection Designer Kai Magee
Set Designer Ali Jamali
Sound Designer Gabriel Drozdov
Costume Designer Emily Rose Don
Stage Manager Teresa Naval
Cast Ray Achan, Ali Jamali, Ella Larsen, Noah Seltzer, Jordan Tragash, Sophie Dora Tulchin, Wenxuan Xue
Photos by Cybele Moon and Sonya Sternlieb
Virgil is desperately longing for Alice, who abruptly disappeared in search of his thought-to-be-dead father. A mummified corpse, dating back to more than 5000 years ago, is discovered in the mountains. As each character remembers the events of the past, connections appear between the two narratives. Mnemonic (1999), by the British theater company Complicite, incorporates its two parallel stories to explore the act of remembering and the fragmented nature of memory.
October 14-15, 2016
Alpha Delta Phi, Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
By Miranda Hoyt-Disick
Director Ali Jamali
Costume Designer Jaina Wollowitz
Graphic Designer Justina Yam
Light Designer Becca Engle
Props Designer Maya Dorn
Set Designer Alison Lam
Sound Designer Miranda Gohh
Cast Anna Apostolidis, Eddie Chapman, Abigail Daly-Smith, Tatum Millet
Photos by Alison Lam
The singular, sharp-tongued princess Ariadne has been presumed dead for years when she crashes King Theseus’s party in Athens and demands to know why he abandoned her on a desolate island. Using her shrewd command of language, she forces him to relive their bittersweet romance the way she remembers it. A contemporary exploration of the labyrinth myth, A Little Epic: A Succinct Love Story gives Ariadne the chance to write her own ending.
Jamali’s staging isn’t merely done for the sake of it; it forces the viewer to go through the same disorienting motions as the characters go through. –The Wesleyan Argus
April 28 - May 1, 2016
CFA Courtyard, Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
Directed by Marcela Oteíza
Assistant Director Ali Jamali
Costume Designer Cybele Moon
Sound Designer Calvin Anderson
Stage Manager Yichen Eva Lou
Collaborators Nick Byers, Cecilia Cereijido-Bloche, Jess Cummings, Uma Dieffenbach, Maya Herbsman, Ali Jamali, Keyonne Session
Photos by Olivia Drake
Wes Out-Loud: Stories of Place is a site-specific auditory tour that consists of a one-and-half mile walking loop through different campus locations. Conceived and created for the Wesleyan campus through a collaboration between theater students and Assistant Professor of Theater Marcela Oteíza, Wes Out-Loud invites the audience to experience Wesleyan as a scenographic space by inserting new narratives into everyday sites. The juxtaposition of place and stories will bring forward the richness and diversity of the students on campus, promote inclusiveness, and give space to voices that usually are not heard.
March 27-28, 2015
Allbritton Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
By Fernando Lira
Director Ali Jamali
Props & Costume Designer Shoko Yamada
Sound Designer Jason Christian Wangsadinata
Cast Daniel Dreyfus, Philip Katz, Greg Lurito, Jiaqi Maria Ma, Emma Yifan Wang, Tima Haiyun Zeng
Photos by Alison Lam
In Before the Sun Sets, John, a man in his late sixties, is suddenly diagnosed with terminal cancer. Rather than despair at his impending death, John spends what little time he has left with his family and closest friends and finds himself remembering the summer fifty years earlier that set the rest of his life in motion and grappling with the mysterious feeling that he's forgotten something.