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SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Winner! 2021 Drama League Award - Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater
Miami New Drama (Michel Hausmann, Artistic Director; Nicholas Richberg, Managing Director) recently presented 7 Deadly Sins, an innovative, site-specific event, in seven vacant storefronts along Miami Beach’s historic Lincoln Road. The critically acclaimed run was extended twice and played through January 31, 2021. The production was recently nominated for a 2021 Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive or Socially Distanced Theater.
A diverse group of nationally recognized, award-winning playwrights Hilary Bettis, Nilo Cruz, Moisés Kaufman, Rogelio Martinez, Dael Orlandersmith, Carmen Pelaez and Aurin Squire premiered seven newly commissioned short plays, each focused on one deadly sin: Lust, Greed, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony and Pride. In rotation over 90 minutes, groups of ten theatergoers maintained social distance, listening through headphones while actors perform the short plays safely behind the windows of the vacant Lincoln Road storefronts.
The pandemic forced a spike in business closures on Miami Beach’s historic Lincoln Road, with 66 of the 200 storefronts vacant along one of the most expensive retail streets in the nation. 7 Deadly Sins - Temptation in the Magic City, created with the support of the Lincoln Rd Business Improvement District (LRBID) and Mayor of Miami Beach Dan Gelber, found an innovative approach to bring audiences and live performances back to one of the world’s most famous commercial and pedestrian thoroughfares.
Founded by Michel Hausmann and Moisés Kaufman, Miami New Drama is a nonprofit professional theater company committed to artistic excellence and groundbreaking new work, unique to the diverse and extraordinary city of Miami, with a vision of theater as a powerful form of social engagement. Miami New Drama is the resident company of the historic Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach.
Miami New Drama is made possible with the support of the City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, Funding Arts Network, the Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation, and the Knight Foundation.