PRESS RELEASE
Armenian National Committee
San Francisco – Bay Area
51 Commonwealth Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
Tel: (415) 387-3433
Fax: (415) 751-0617
[email protected]
Contact: Ani Baghdassarian (415 ) 387-3433
Thought-Provoking Solo Plays about the Armenian Genocide
Award Winners to Stage Performance Pieces by Aram Kouyoumdjian
San Francisco, CA – Award-winning actress Jan Ahders will headline an
evening of solo plays about the Armenian Genocide, written and directed
by Aram Kouyoumdjian. “Protest” and “The Delicate Lines,” presented by
the Bay Area Armenian National Committee will be performed at the
C.A.F.E./Off Market Theater on Thursday, April 21 at 7:00 pm and Friday,
April 22 at 8:00 pm.
In “The Delicate Lines,” Ahders, the winner of four Elly Awards for
acting, will star in a role specifically written for her by
Kouyoumdjian, Elly Award winner for writing (“The Farewells”) and
directing (“Three Hotels”). The Sacramento Bee has hailed Ahders’ work
as “exceptional” and “remarkable,” while describing the “classy
Kouyoumdjian” as having “an adventurous artistic sensibility for
intelligent productions.”
“The Delicate Lines” follows the story of an Armenian woman in the days
after the Armenian Genocide as she struggles with her poet brother’s
descent into madness and with her conflicted love for his best friend.
The piece, which will have its world premiere this April, will be paired
with “Protest,” a work constructed around a demonstration against
Turkish denials of the Genocide. “Protest” will be performed by Elly
Award-nominated stage and screen actor J.D. Rudometkin.
All three artists are members of Vista Players, a theater group
Kouyoumdjian co-founded and leads as Artistic Director. The troupe has
been called “boundlessly talented” by the Sacramento News & Review, and
Kouyoumdjian has previously directed both Ahders and Rudometkin in plays
including ~SArcadia~T by Tom
Stoppard, and ~SThe Play About the Baby~T by Edward Albee.
The C.A.F.E. / Off Market Theater is located at 965 Mission Street, in
San Francisco. Tickets to the show are $20 and may be obtained by
calling the ANC office at 415-387-3433. Performances will begin
promptly and there will be no late seating.