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Women's Project will launch its 2008-2009 season in September with Aliens with Extraordinary Skills, a world premiere dark comedy about emigres who need both love and a green card by a celebrated Romanian poet, journalist and playwright Saviana Stanescu. "Aliens" will be directed by award-winning theater artist and Bosnian emigre Tea Alagic and will run September 22 though October 26 at Women's Project, 424 West 55th Street.

"Aliens" centers on a clown from the unhappiest country in the world, Moldova, who pins her hopes on a US work visa by creating balloon animals. Chased by Homeland Security, a deportation letter deflates her enthusiasm, and a pair of spike heels might be all it takes to burst her American Dream.

The theater's season will continue in the spring with the only play written by one of the greatest women writers in history, Virginia Woolf, Freshwater. Written in 1923, revised in 1935, and never produced professionally in the United States, Woolf's play creates a deliberately witty and wacky universe peopled with a tribe of artists, friends and lovers in a playful mood. Legendary director Anne Bogart will direct this theatrical escapade set in a Victorian garden on a summer evening. Freshwater will run January 15 through February 15.

In addition to these two productions, the Women's Project will offer a site-specific production in May 2009 entitled Global Cooling: The Women Chill. THe piece will be performed at an indoor public space to be announced and is a follow-up on the theater's previous site-specific offerings, Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ (2007) and Corporate Carnival (2008) in lower Manhattan.

For further information, visit: www.WomensProject.org