Cape Cod Theatre Project

CCTP 2009 Season: July 30, 31, August 1 8pm

Indio
written and performed by Aladdin Ullah, directed by Hal Brooks

The riotous and insightful coming of age story of a Bangladeshi-American in Spanish Harlem.

About The Playwright: Aladdin Ullah

Aladdin has been pioneering the past decade as one of the very first South Asians to perform Stand-up comedy on National Television on HBO, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, and PBS. Co-founder and host of the multi-ethnic stand-up show "Colorblind "which Mel Watkins of the New York Times hailed as “hilarious, thought provoking and groundbreaking".

Writing credits: Halal Brothers directed by Chris Mcelroen- Classical Theater of Harlem's 2008 future Classics Series. Indio- directed by Loretta Greco- NY Works Now! (Public Theater) Aladdin is current IAAC (Indo American Arts Council) playwright in residence at the Lark Play Development Center (2009 Lucille Lortel award winner). Proud member of the Public Theater's inaugural Emerging Writers Group.

Acting credits include: Theater: Indio (public theater), Mike Batistic's Port Authority Throwdown (Culture Project and CCTH) Rain from out the Blue (New York Theater Int'l Fringe Fest); Television: Law and Order, Uncle Morty's Dub shack (IATV) - Telly award for best comedy series, Desis: South Asians in NY (PBS); Film: played the lovable Hanuman and several other voices in the award winning animated feature Sita Sings The Blues ( Best animated film –Spirit and Gotham awards, Best in animation- Berlin and Tribeca film fest) www.sitasingstheblues.com, played the hilarious Prof. Gautam in American Desi.

About The Director: Hal Brooks

Hal Brooks directed the national tour of Nilaja Sun’s Obie Award Winning No Child… which performed at Berkeley Rep, Woolly Mammoth, ART, Lookingglass and the Kirk Douglas Theater, after a yearlong critically-lauded run at both the Barrow Street Theatre and Epic Theatre in New York City. He also directed the acclaimed Off Broadway hit and Pulitzer Finalist Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Soho Theatre in London, and the DR2 in NYC. Other recent productions include Itamar Moses’s Back Back Back at Dallas Theater Center, Lady by Craig Wright (Asolo Rep), the premiere of Lee Blessing’s Lonesome Hollow at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, “MASTER HAROLD”…and the boys at the Weston Playhouse, Widows by Ariel Dorfman and James Braly’s Life in a Marital Institution (59 E 59 and Soho Playhouse).

He was the Artistic Director of the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company of New York where he directed the Off Broadway premieres of Don DeLillo's Valparaiso and Will Eno's The Flu Season (Oppy winner). Other recent credits: Six Years (Humana Festival), Rinne Groff's What Then (Clubbed Thumb), I Am My Own Wife (Weston Playhouse), Intimate Apparel (Southern Rep), Benefactors (PA Center Stage), Big Wyoming (NY Stage and Film). Other New York credits: Keith Reddin's Almost Blue, Beckett's Rough for Theatre #1, Caught (Don Quixote Project).

Last summer, Hal’s directing projects included Origin Story (Sundance), Annie Baker’s Nocturama (Cape Cod Theater Project), Bill Cain’s Nine Circles (Ojai).

He has directed and developed work at NYTW, Primary Stages, The Public, Juilliard, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Naked Angels, INTAR, Magic Theater, McCarter Theater, Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory Theater, Syracuse Stage and the Virginia Stage Company. Hal is a proud member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and SSDC. He was a Drama League Fall Directing Fellow in 2003 and is a recipient of the 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors.

Upcoming: Precious Little by 13 p playwright Madeleine George (Clubbed Thumb), Indio by Aladdin Ullah (Public Theater); My Name Is Asher Lev (Marin Theater Company).