{"id":7667,"date":"2019-04-12T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2020-06-04T13:58:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:58:05","slug":"bee-by-melody-erfani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/coho-season-production\/bee-by-melody-erfani\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 24: BEE \u0631\u0648\u0628\u0646\u0632 \u2013 POSTPONED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">JANUARY 13 \u2013 24, 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Poster-Image-no-text-571x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7925\" width=\"343\" height=\"480\"\/><figcaption> *Permission to use this image was kindly granted by Iranian photographer Shadi Gadirian <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><br><strong><em>BEE<\/em><\/strong> \u0631\u0648\u0628\u0646\u0632 <br>Created by Melody Erfani<br>Written by Sean Michael Welch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Co-producers LES Shakespeare Co. &amp; Melody Erfani<br>Directed by Melody Erfani<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--\nSTART OF VENDINI TAG\nCopyright (C) 2020 Vendini, Inc.\n     All Rights Reserved.\n\nTROUBLESHOOTING: The HTML code below is one continuous line.  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January 13th and 14th will be previews, with the show opening on January 15th at 7:30 PM. <\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>It is 1941 in Tehran, Iran. 13-year-old Izat dutifully marries a man 30 years her senior, and soon realizes that bees are no longer the thing she fears most. A true tale of unconventional courage spanning nearly 70 years, from Izat\u2019s granddaughter Melody Erfani and playwright Sean Michael Welch.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">DUTY. DEFIANCE. FREEDOM.<br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT THE CREATOR\/DIRECTOR\/CO-PRODUCER<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Melody Erfani <\/strong>is co-founder and artistic director of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesshakespeareco.org\/\">LES Shakespeare Company<\/a><\/strong>. She has an MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School and was a participant of the 2013 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Prior to that she served an internship with Shakespeare&#8217;s Globe Theatre in London under the direction of Mark Rylance. She has directed productions of <strong><em>Twelfth Night<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Romeo and Juliet <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Antigone <\/em><\/strong>for LES Shakespeare<strong>. <\/strong>Other favorite directing credits include: <strong><em>97 Orchard Street <\/em><\/strong>(Creator\/Director with 5D Productions) <strong><em>All An Act <\/em><\/strong>(Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and <strong><em>Othello <\/em><\/strong>(The Looking Glass Forum), <strong><em>The Sacrifice of Belonging <\/em><\/strong>(Creator at Pavement Festival Portland, OR), <strong><em>Our Town, The Importance of Being Earnest <\/em><\/strong>(Stagedoor Manor, NY). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her producing credits include: <strong><em>All An Act <\/em><\/strong>(Edinburgh Fringe Festival) 3 annual <strong>Arts in the Park<\/strong><strong><em>, Twelfth Night<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Antigone <\/em><\/strong>and <strong><em>Bee <\/em><\/strong>\u0631\u0648\u0628\u0646\u0632 (LES Shakespeare Company), <strong><em>Around the Block <\/em><\/strong>featuring <strong><em>97 Orchard St. <\/em><\/strong>(5D Productions). <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seanmichaelwelch.weebly.com\/\">Sean Michael Welch<\/a><\/strong> attended the University of Michigan-Flint from 1996 to 2000. While there, he was awarded the 1999 Kennedy Center\/American College Theatre Festival John Cauble Short Play Award for EARL THE VAMPIRE, and received a special commendation from the University of Michigan Board of Regents. The following year he won the 2000 KC\/ACTF Region III Ten-Minute Play competition with CHARLESTON&#8217;S FINGER. He holds an MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-7667\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/coho-season-production\/bee-by-melody-erfani\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-7667\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/coho-season-production\/bee-by-melody-erfani\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY 13 \u2013 24, 2021 BEE \u0631\u0648\u0628\u0646\u0632 Created by Melody [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-7667\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/coho-season-production\/bee-by-melody-erfani\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-7667\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/coho-season-production\/bee-by-melody-erfani\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[423,206],"tags":[433],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cohoproductions.org\/old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BEE-banner-image.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Season 24: BEE \u0631\u0648\u0628\u0646\u0632 \u2013 POSTPONED |<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is 1941 in Tehran, Iran. 13-year-old Izat dutifully marries a man 30 years her senior, and soon realizes that bees are no longer the thing she fears most. 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