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The Riverside Theatre Workshop - RTW
The Riverside Theatre Workshop (RTW), a New York City based 501c3 theatre works company,has from its inception thirty years ago been dedicated to a community of artists working to bring to an audience the best theatre, dance and musicals from all over the world, works that have resonance today as they did two thousand years ago. Thus Aristophanes and Sondheim, Moliere and Richard Rodgers, Everyman and Stoppard share our stage in the exploration and celebration of the human imagination in art, wherever it occurs-North, South, East, West of a borderless border and the city of Manhattan. Here are a few artists who have worked with us over the years: Irene Cara, Theresa Merritt, The Smothers Brothers, Richie Havens, Lorna Luft, Theresa Saldana, Stephanie Mills, Emme Kemp, Corliss Taylor Dunn and Jackee.
Luigia Miller (Director, Playwright) is the RTW's founder and Artistic Director. Born in Naples, she is at home on both the bay of Naples and the bay of New York. In Naples she majored in Philosophy at the University of Naples and New York got her MFA in Theatre at Colombia University. She has studied with such theatre stars as Gassner, Piscator, Bentlry, Kopit, and Guare. In Naples, her translations of American and British writers were published in magazines and newspapers as were her own poems write in the Italian style of Ermetismo. As a student she acted in theatre and film in Naples. As a playwright in America she founded the Riverside Theatre Workshop as an experimental reparatory of playwrights, actors, designers, and apprentices devoted to the old and the new in dramatic experience as well as in dance, music and poetry. She has done Aristophanes to Ionesco, Moliere to Stoppard, Calderon to "For Colored Girls, and the first revival of Richard Rodgers "No Strings."