Free Preformances of "Nothing" at RCC

RCC Hispanic Heritage Award winner and dual major in both performing and media arts student, Joelle Almodovar, will direct three performances of the short play she also wrote. The play is titled, Nothing, for that common answer people most often give they don’t want to get into all that could be disclosed, when someone asks “what’s wrong?”

The performance of  Nothing is approximately 30 minutes.
It takes place in the Black Box Theater in the Cultural Arts Center, Room 7100 on:

Friday, December 2 at 7 pm
Saturday, December 3 at 7 pm

All performances are free and open to the public.

Almodovar is a returning adult student to Rockland Community College, currently attending her third semester. She began at RCC with several ideas for creative projects, and started studying playwriting, having already done some performance work and knowing she wanted to do something in the creative field.

Almodovar feels that she really found herself at RCC and credits this to Angelo Parra as a mentor through his playwriting courses, and the knowledge and support she received from Patty Maloney-Titland and Chris Plummer of the Performing Arts Department. Maloney-Titland is serving as producer for this play, and Chris Plummer as advisor for the stage fighting sequence.

The emotional play visits a family dealing with several challenges, the mother has petit mal seizures, and one child has autism. The actors are RCC performing arts students Meagan Morales-Correa, Brandon Lopez and Laural Hicks.

Almodovar is currently working on a film tentatively titled “We Love, We Honor, We Remember,” about the way a family deals with the loss of an infant child, and another short film about this topic which she hopes to submit to the RCC –TV Video Festival. This Fall 2011 semester, Almodovar’s oldest son joined her as a student at RCC, where he is studying accounting.