Opening Night: Thousand Paper Cranes by Diana Fathi

Opening Day: Celebrating our return with open mic which we will introduce the line up later and Thousand Paper Cranes by Diana Fathi and Greg T. Nanni.

Thousand Paper Cranes by Diana Fathi and Greg T. Nanni

This performance is recommended for both adults and children. 

A nomad storyteller decides to fold thousand paper cranes for each child who lives in a war to make a wish.

Greg T. Nanni is a playwright, performer, marketer, and former Philadelphian now living in the NYC area. He is a member of Witherspoon Circle, the Literary Manager of the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, and the Co-Founder of the PDC Playwrights' Happy Hour, and formerly served as President on the board of the Philadelphia Dramatists’ Center.  He performs his own solo shows FAT and THE DEPRESSION SHOW! based on demand. Full length plays include: LONELINESS (CU 2020 Workshop Production), THE BEAR IS HERE (BAPF Semi-Finalist), RAGE (Winner: Emerson Stage NewFest New Play Workshop 2022), VACATIONS, and ANGST. Up next: LOVE (AMONG DREAMERS), June 24-26 at Columbia’s Lenfest Center Of The Arts. He is a recipient of the MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University, where he was awarded the Dean’s Fellowship.

Diana Fathi (She/her) is a multidisciplinary theater practitioner from Tehran, Iran based in New York City. She has directed Third Person Singular (Columbia University), Ahali-e-Hava (Tehran City Theater), and Foggy Season (The multilingual collaboration between Iran and Georgia). Her recent dramaturgical work includes Glimpse (Rattlestick Theater), Hedda Gabler directed by Rakesh Palisetty (Columbia University), Twelfth Night directed by Kelly O’Donnell (Columbia University), and Loneliness by Greg Nanny (Columbia University). She has won several national and international prizes for acting. Diana received her MFA (Dramaturgy) from Columbia University, M.A. (Philosophy of Art), and B.A. (Dramatic Literature) from Tehran University of Art.