For Immediate Release Contact:  Deb Randall, Executive Director 202.236.4078 DeborahRandall@msn.com FREE DC! DC’s Venus Theatre stages A LITTLE REBELLION NOW Winner of the 2004 Next Generation Playwrights’ Contest (Reverie Productions, NYC) [WASHINGTON, D.C., August 24, 2005]  A LITTLE REBELLION NOW by Lisa Voss will be performed at the Warehouse Theatre. Venus Theatre, D.C.’s premiere feminist theatre company, will present Lisa Voss’s play A LITTLE REBELLION NOW, which tackles D.C. Statehood.  Tired of attempting to work within the system, African-American community leader and poet Nanni Johnson and her fellow activists forge an uneasy alliance with IMF-World Bank protestors.  Once united, the two groups lead the city in an attempt to secede from the Union.  Branded as "terrorists," the rebels soon find themselves facing down armed U.S. soldiers and resolve to stand their ground, asking the rest of the nation:  without the right to rebel, are we really free? Washington, D.C., resident and award-winning playwright Lisa Voss developed A LITTLE REBELLION NOW in the months immediately following September 11, 2001. “I had the idea for the play years before 9/11,” says Voss.  “But the invasion of Afghanistan, and then of Iraq, really crystallized my thinking.  ‘How ironic,’ I thought.  ‘We’re willing to invade other countries to give their citizens rights that the residents of our own capital city don’t have.’  This play offers one perspective on why that might be.” A LITTLE REBELLION NOW won the 2004 Reverie Productions Next Generation Playwrights’ contest.  In March 2005, the script had a workshop production in New York City at 59E59 Street.   Locally, Lisa has contributed scripts to two Venus Bad Girls Festivals, four 2002 Source Summer Theater Festivals, and two Baltimore Playwrights’ Festivals.  She belongs to PlayGround, the playwrights’ group associated with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and her play Ninja Motorcycle Babes debuted at the H Street Playhouse in July 2005.  Audiences have also enjoyed her work in Wilmington, North Hollywood, and Seattle.   Deb Randall is the Founder and Artistic Director of Venus Theatre.  Her most recent directing credits include  wRighting Women Reading Series, Venus Envy Improvisation Troupe, Bad Girls Summer Festivals I, II, and III, TIL IT HURTS, THE MOLLY MAGUIRE PROJECT, UGLY DUCKLINGS (Curve Magazine 2004 Theatre Award, Nominated for an American Theatre Critics Award), and CIGARETTES AND MOBY DICK. The Warehouse Theater, 1021 7th Street, N.W., Washington D.C.  Tickets available at www.boxofficetickets.com or 1.800.494.TIXS starting October 1. Shows run November 17 – December 11, Thursdays  through Saturdays at 7:30 and Sundays at 3:00.  For more information:  www.venustheatre.org and www.ljvoss.net