ARTISTIC STATEMENT - I like to explore the space between p and q ad infinitum. I feel language alone limits our thoughts. I look for a relationship between context and the way the text looks on a page. Intuitively, I cannot write without drawing, It is the same to me. Both tell stories. And locating those in-between places that can tell a story better is my aim. Explorations and evaporations of the written word. Mad monologues which allow the mind to wander. Hallucinatory worlds that translate in flesh. Just as the audience is one with the art they are witnessing, I believe that the text is one with the story it is telling. So why not let the text swell with pride, burn with color and freeze with temperature? |
BIANCA BAGATOURIAN is a recent graduate of the Brooklyn College Playwriting MFA Program, under lifetime Obie winning playwright, Mac Wellman. She is an experimental playwright who likes to stretch the boundaries of theater and whose works revolve around human rights themes. She is currently working on a play based on the works of noted historian, Howard Zinn, along with interviews and texts with from Mr. Zinn. Her play about the 1976 revolution in Iran focused on the injustice to the children of a revolution was last heard at the Ohio Theater in NYC. She is now working on a play about the Armenian genocide based on 800 hours of survivor stories with permission from the Armenian Library and Museum of America.Bianca is the president of the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, a non-profit organization she founded in 2005 that supports Armenian theater and film artists through an annual film festival in Boston at the ICA (Institue of Contemporary Art) in addition to two $10,000 bi-annual contests for emerging Screenwriters (The Paul Award) and Playwrights (The William Saroyan Prize). Bianca also has ties to the film world, and is currently developing several projects, serving roles as Writer, Producer and Distributor. |
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