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What is Alphabet City?

Each summer, Metropolitan welcomes the life of the Lower East Side onto our stage with Alphabet City: A Portrait of the Lower East Side. Sending actors into the neighborhood to meet with local residents and workers of their choosing, we ask that they return with stories that capture the life, spirit, and vision of their new "collaborators," which they then present as solo performances. Together, they form theatrical snapshots of some of the diverse people that make up our downtown home. Told in our neighbors' own words, the performances are a part of Metropolitan’s creative mission to explore and enrich America’s theatrical heritage and discovering our place in world theater.

The first Alphabet City was performed in January 2004. On these pages, you can find the history of the project and information on the wonderful lives that have been apart of it.

Alphabet City I	Alphabet City II	Alphabet City III	Alphabet City IV	Alphabet City V
Carlos Roman ** Peter Loureiro Father Arthur Wendel Steve Cannon Dan Godstrey	Hugh Mackie Ela Troyano "Kat" Igor Fernandez Marilyn Appleberg Liesl Schillinger Mari-chan Keith Perisi Lucille Consorti Hilly Kristal Ed Boros ** Richard Armijo	Dennis Giron David J. Ores, MD Marlis Momber Terry Towery Pastor Diane (Dunne) Billy Lyles Irma St. Paule ** Miladys Ramirez Michelle Grasso	Theresa Byrnes Bill DiPaola Tamara Hey Evelyn Milan Mary Lee Kortes Blake Jim Power Miguel Algarin	Jubayer De La Vega Peter Cramer Joey Pauline/Paulina Charles Von Herrlich Raquel Algarin Tessie DeRosa Billy the Artist Luis Lopez

** In Memoriam
Alphabet City Project is dedicateds to the neighbors, featured in past years, who have since passed away.

We were honored they would grace our stage;
We are ever inspired by their lives.


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