Director Sande Shurin returns to La MaMa in Anna Fishbeyn’s “Sex in Mommyville” (#98)
December 11, 2010 at 3:00pm
Sande Shurin 30 year veteran acting coach developed her own technique, “Transformational Acting” (Her first book) and has coached/directed such names as Mathew Modine, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Rapp, super model Shalom Harlow and music legend Method Man. On Broadway she directed “The Price Of Genius” also directing at such venues as BAM, Playwright’s Horizons, Carnegie Hall & Lincoln Center and many off-off Broadway theaters throughout her 35 year directing career. She also directed two films written by husband Bruce Levy. Shurin was celebrity acting coach on “America’s Next Top Model” and cuts of her work were seen on OPRAH. She has lectured at many Universities. Shurin teaches here in NY as well as Woodstock, NY. Her newest book is “Star Power…Defining Your Individual Signature”. She most recently worked with the brilliant Anna Fishbeyn directing her new play SEX IN MOMMYVILLE at the Flea Theater in New York City. Shurin was honored at Lamama’s Coffee Chronicles for her contribution as one of the founding members of the off-off Broadway Theater movement in New York.
Anna Fishbeyn is a writer/performer who recently did a solo show at the Cornelia Street Café called Conversations With My Breasts that tackled breastfeeding challenges and humiliation, current fads in diaper changing in public and parental whining about sexual deprivation. She had been an actress/singer in Russia as a child but had not been on stage since ten until that fateful night at the Cornelia Street café when she realized it was about time she returned! The Flea Theater offered her an opportunity to perform on its stage and with the help of Ms Shurin “Sex In Mommyville” was born. She is currently working on her first novel “The Matrimonial Implications of Emma Kaulfield” (a.k.a Elana Kabelmacher, A Russian immigrant torn between her devotion to her family and her wild love affair with an American man. Her article “Whoa Mama!” was recently published in the NYPress.com. Ms Fishbeyn holds a B.A from the University of Chicago, an MFA in fiction from The New School University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University where her dissertation was entitled Evil in the Novel and It’s Implications for Moral Education.
Written by Anna Fishbeyn
Directed by Sande Shurin
With: Anna Fishbeyn