2001 Script Development Series – NOVEL

NOVEL
By Nick Bellitto
featuring Gena Bardwell, Michael Citrinitti, Peter Reznikoff
Developed from 2000-2001 and workshop readings presented at The Lark Studio Theatre
Full Production 2001 at HERE

In Winter 2001, MultiStages produced Novel by Nick Bellitto at HERE. Novel was developed by MultiStages in its Script Development Series between 2000 and 2001, and received several MultiStages staged readings at the Lark Studio Theatre. Novel was developed and directed by Lorca Peress.

This poetic play is portrait of a struggling artist who is forced to face his creative demons and the guilt over the death of his son as he creates his novel. This surreal memory piece incorporated stylistic movement and poetry. 

The Company featured: Peter Reznikoff, Gena Bardwell and Michael, Citriniti; Sets/Costumes, Mark Borders. Lorca Peress, Dramaturg.

Multidisciplinary collaborating artists were composers Anika Paris and Dean Landon. Partial funding for the Script Development Series was received from the N.W. Dible Foundation.