TWO ONE-WOMAN PLAYS
Saturday, February 18th at 8pm
Burgdorff Cultural Center
$15 general admission
 Maggie Surovell, a 1998 graduate of Columbia High school, returns to Maplewood on Saturday, February 18th, to perform her one-woman play, "Warning Signs," at the Burgdorff Cultural Center on Durand Road. The play is being presented as part of a special event of the Underground Concert Series that will also feature a second one-woman play, "Unveiled," by Michele Cuomo. The show starts at 8:00 pm and tickets are $15.00. Tickets can be purchased online at www.undergroundconcerts.com, or in town at Classic Design Framing - Robin Hutchins Gallery - Pen & Jen's and Here's To the Arts Cafe. Call 973-762-0119 for information.
Warning Signs is a humorous, coming-of-age story about a Jewish/Socialist/Vegetarian/Feminist named Maggie. Growing up in a household with a politically left father and a feminist mother wasn't always easy for Maggie, but it did help prepare her to deal with the realities of racism, religion, vegetarian haters, sexism, and of course, her extremely big hair. Throughout the piece, Maggie finds herself forced to choose between fitting-in with her friends or standing up for her beliefs, and she often makes surprising discoveries that will both shock and delight audiences. Warning Signs features a long cast of characters, including a guest appearance by G.W. Bush.
Maggie Surovell grew up in Maplewood, NJ and currently lives in New York City. She received her MFA in Acting from the University of Georgia last May and holds a BA in Theater from Temple University. Maggie has performed the roles of Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Ernest, Mae in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Viola in Twelfth Night, Sooze in SubUrbia and Adelaide in the 1998 Columbia High School production of Guys and Dolls. She has been performing Warning Signs in various theaters around New York City and is currently appearing as Young Morgaine in the production of Avalon at the Looking Glass Theater. She is an Assistant Fitzmaurice voice teacher and gives private voice lessons in Maplewood and New York City.
 The second play presented on February 18th at the Burgdorff, is "Unveiled," by Michele Cuomo, which takes us somewhere in Afghanistan where a woman uses books as bricks, since she cannot read; somewhere in N.Y. where a woman subjects herself to torturous beauty rituals because she needs to feel attractive and somewhere in Pakistan, where a merchant tries to understand the strange American woman who wants to buy a burqua. Unveiled is a non linear, multidisciplinary and tragi-comic look at Michele's search to understand the world. It chronicles Michele's research for the play Phaedra for a production she directed, and her futile attempts to costume it the way she would have liked. She discovers that in today's world, performing Greek tragedy might not be enough to explain the human condition.
Michele Cuomo received a PSC CUNY research grant to create Unveiled as a member of the theatre faculty of the City University of New York at Queensborough. She also teaches and vocal coaches at Marymount Manhattan College. Her original performance work, which has been presented across the United States and in Europe, includes Visible Vessels, Cut Open, Nothing About Love, The Red Bitter Flood, 20 Ophelias and White Woods. She most recently performed the role of Olga in The Three Sisters at LaMama and multiple roles in The Other Wiseman for The Modern Theatre of Myth in Berlin.
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