Infidel by David Neipris
How much is a genocide worth on the art market? We discover the price when a Turkish woman’s desire to purchase a painting triggers Sam Vardanyan, an Armenian-American art dealer reckoning with history and his own hypocrisy.
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Vardanyan clings to his painting not just from sentiment, but as a weapon in his war on Turkish denial of atrocities against his people. But his self-image crumbles as his racism suggests a perpetrator lurking within the victim.
David Neipris...
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...graduated from NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing and performed on and off Broadway while writing a few shows. He brought Big Wyoming, starring Michael Stuhlbarg, to The New York Stage and Film Festival. Strange Gods was a Finalist for The Princess Grace Award. Other plays, including April Escapes and Glass Eye, were developed at The New Group, The Cherry Lane Theatre, Naked Angeles, and New Jersey Rep.
Most recently, Pure Cinema, about the lunch
meetings of Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Brooks, won Best of Asylum at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. He’s also now developing a feature film, and has All Bow Down, a TV pilot co-written with Davey Holmes (Get Shorty). Huge thanks to Monsieur Magruder and Broad Horizons for the invite. Honored to be back in NYC with this play.