Maria Beech

New York, New York, United States

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Playwright, Lyricist, Bookwriter

Ana Graham is Artistic Director and founder of Por Piedad Teatro where she has developed her career as an actress, producer, translator and costume designer. She recently moved to New York where her company co-produced in 2012 Working on a Special Day, by Ettore Scola as apart of The Play Co’s Lab Production program. (The full production of the play will open at 59E59 next January.) Her company co-launched with the Play Co. the program HECHO EN MEXICO, a series of public readings of Mexican contemporary plays that aims to bring together theatre artists from Mexico and the US.  In Mexico her work in Por Piedad includes: The Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmlpfening, Ladies and Gents, by Paul Walker, Playing the Victim, by the Presnyakov Brothers, Psychosis 4.48 by Sarah Kane, for which she was nominated as Best actress by APT (Mexican Theatre Press Board) ; Crave and Blasted, also by Sarah Kaneand for which she was awarded the Best Actress and Best Translator Awards by the APT; The Country by Martin Crimp; Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhillfor which she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress by APT; Grace and Glory by Tom Ziegler, for which she was awarded the Best Young Actress Award by APT; and Interiors by Woody Allen. Outside Por Piedad she is remembered for her performance in Hedda Gabler by Hernik Ibsen, Equus by Peter Shaffer and Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet.In film she starred in Mezcal, a film by Ignacio Ortiz, for which she was nominated to an Ariel (Mexico’s Film Academy awards) as Best Actress and Cuento de Hadas para Dormir Cocodrilos (Both films were awarded with the Gold Ariel for best film.) In 2003 she received the annual grant for performing artist from Mexico’s National Found for the Arts. Her company Por Piedad Teatro has received Mexico’s Found for the Arts annual production grant eight times. The company’s plays have been awarded in almost all categories and have included in many international theatre festivals.  In 2011 Ana Graham was appointed as Tourism Ambassador by Mexico’s government as recognition of her contribution to Mexican art and culture.   Maria Alexandria Beech has BA (cum laude) and MFA from Columbia University, and earned a second MFA in the Graduate Musical Theatre Program at NYU in 2012. Alex has been a member of The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages Theater for the past five seasons, where she wrote Saving The Lives of Strangers, Charity, Bonds, and Little Monsters. She wrote Gloria as a member of the Hispanic Playwrights Lab at Intar in New York. Her translations include Eduardo Machado’s The Cook (produced by The Stages Theatre) and Luis Ayllon's The Camels and Hitler In My Heart by Noe Munoz Morales (Lark Play Development Center; an excerpt was recently published by Asymptote Journal) Her one act plays, The Soft Room, Bat in Iraq, Your Face, Designer X, The Times, Cast Aside, and her one-act musicals, You Can’t Sing, and The Call were presented in New York by Blue Box Productions, and Barrington Stage Company presented La Sayona in 2011. In 2006 and 2007, her plays, Lima Beans, Breaking Walls, and Black Roses were semi-finalists in the Cherry Lane Mentor Project. In 2006, her play Breaking Walls was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater, and favorably reviewed by Bloomberg News. In February of 2011, her play Little Monsters was co-produced by Primary Stages and Brandeis Theatre Company. Her play, What Are You Doing Here, won Outstanding New Script Award at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity in 2011. (NYTheatre.com will publish it in 2012.) Her play, Gloria, had a reading at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and her full-length musical co-written with composer Karl Michael Johnson, CLASS, was presented in a staged reading at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Currently, she is writing Wombtown, a play commissioned by Primary Stages and Aspen Theater Masters. Alex is a Prime Candidate for Membership at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, a member of the US/Mexico Advisory Committee at the Lark. She has served as a panelist at the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pony Award at the Lark Play Development Center.  Additional appeals for LEGOM PROJECT: Mando Alvarado is a screenwriter, playwright and actor from South Texas. As a screenwriter, his first feature film Cruzando, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Michael Ray Escamilla, has received accolades at many notable festivals such as the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival, the Newport Beach International Film Festival and the London Latino International Film Festival. “Cruzando” is distributed by Vanguard Cinema and is currently available on DVD. As a playwright, Mando’s plays have been produced Off-Broadway by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, INTAR, Cherry Lane, Lortel/Theaterworks and SummerStages, with developmental support from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Lark, Naked Angels, Mixed Company, Sonnet Rep, The Shalimar, Theater Alliance, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and the Round House Theater. As an actor, he has appeared on several popular television stories and full-length films such as “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “The Sopranos,” “Louie,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Damages,” “Cop Out,” “The Oranges” and “Choking Man.”

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