Gioia de Cari
Producing Artistic Director, Producer, Actor, Writer @Truth Values Community Truth And Art, Inc
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Producing Artistic Director, Producer, Actor, Writer @Truth Values Community Truth And Art, Inc
New York, NY, US
The mission of Unexpected Theatre is to illuminate the lives and amplify the voices of women in fresh and unexpected ways, to offer a forum for women to share their stories and explore their collective history. Visit unexpectedtheatre.org.Unexpected Theatre\'s first show,\"Truth Values: One Girl\'s Romp Through M.I.T.\'s Male Math Maze,\" winner of the New York International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award for Best Solo Show, has become a national hit: 90+ national performances, 17K+ attendance. Sold-out performances include La Jolla Playhouse Potiker Theatre, Annenberg Performing Arts Center, USC\'s Visions and Voices Arts and Humanities Series, Irvine Barclay Theatre, Lafayette Street Theatre and Theatre 80 (NYC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology as part of MIT\'s 150th Anniversary (MA).Created as a response to former Harvard President Lawrence Summers\' now infamous suggestion that women are less represented than men in the sciences because of innate gender differences,\"Truth Values: One Girl\'s Romp Through M.I.T.\'s Male Math Maze\" is a true-life tale that offers a humorous, scathing, insightful and ultimately uplifting look at the challenges of being a professional woman in a male-dominated field. Written and performed by Gioia De Cari, directed by Miriam Eusebio.“De Cari is an appealing performer. a kind of wide-eyed Alice-in-Numberland.”— The Boston Globe “Funny and insightful one-woman show. replete with hilarious characters. the story is riveting. go see this show.” — Curtain Up“If you see only one play this year about reflexive nonbinary relations, make it this one.” — Los Angeles Times“[M.I.T. Biologist Nancy] Hopkins says she did not enjoy the tumult surrounding the Summers controversy, ‘but if it had the effect of bringing this issue forward and inspiring this young woman to write this fabulous play. I’d say it was worth it, because this is an important play.’”— The Boston Globe
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ABOUT GIOIA DE CARI
Arts Professional: Performing Artist, Actor, Singer, Writer and \"recovering mathematician.\" Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Unexpected Theatre. Creator of the award-winning hit one-woman show,\"Truth Values: One Girl\'s Romp Through M.I.T.\'s Male Math Maze.\" Co-Founder of a related educational program for women in STEM,\"Truth Values Community.\"In-depth update for the pandemic:My WHY is to stir the soul in order to create a sense of belonging for the people and communities I serve. In my work as a Producing Artist, I have been able to use my humorous and inspiring writing and performances to create events that spark compassionate conversation about diversity and inclusion in more than 50 communities nationwide.I began my career as a mathematics Ph.D. student at M.I.T. and Teaching Fellow at Harvard. Being one of a very few young women in my program at the time, I felt out of place, and suddenly left math entirely, not fully understanding why. In so doing, I contributed to what is sometimes called the “leaky pipeline” in the STEM Fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics).I eventually forged a new path in the arts, for a number of years immersing myself fully in bringing other artists’ words and music to life as a performer. In the mid-90’s I became interested in bringing my own words to life, and wrote extensively about my life in math as a writing exercise. The plight of women in STEM being ever in the news, plus the urging of my writing colleagues caused me to consider sharing my math stories. The result was my play,\"Truth Values,\" which became so popular nationally that I created a small arts company to tour it and other original musical performances. In 2018, through the generosity of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we launched, in addition, an educational companion program,\"Truth Values Community.\"Early in 2020, in the midst of preparing for our most successful touring schedule to date, the pandemic hit, and paused all our live events.Moving forward, I am experimenting with manifesting my WHY in new ways, such as creating and producing innovative and diverse events online.
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