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NAAVA PIATKA is an internationally known actress, writer, artist and director and performance coach. She is the writer and performer of her acclaimed one woman musical play BETTER DON’T TALK!- A Daughter Uncovers Her Mother’s Hidden Past, about the remarkable life and times of her Holocaust survivor actress/singer mother, Chayela Rosenthal, Star of the Vilna Ghetto Theatre. Her solo performance has won rave reviews and captured the hearts of audiences worldwide from the USA to the United Kingdom, South Africa to Germany, Australia to Lithuania.
Naava’s career in the performing arts has ranged from acting to directing, teaching to voiceover work. She was founder and director of several children’s theatre companies in her native South Africa and in the USA. Teaching performing arts at schools and colleges, she offers artist-in-residencies in association with her play. Her accelerated learning prejudice-reduction and confidence-building transformation workshops are designed to motivate and educate: STAND UP and SPEAK OUT! Is geared towards students And MOVING ON & MOVING UP! encourages and promotes empowerment and healing for people dealing with breakups.
Naava brings her distinct brand of warm motivational passion, humor and from the heart straight talk to each presentation, keynote speech and workshop. With her engaging and charismatic personality, dedication to excellence and dynamic, positive outlook, Naava leaves a lasting impression and message of inspiration.
Naava is also an accomplished artist, with exhibitions in galleries in South Africa and in the USA. Her paintings are in held in private collections around the world.
EXCITING NEWS! Naava’s long-awaited father-daughter memoir NO GOODBYES about her Holocaust survivor father’s life is about to be published. Stay tuned!
2008 SHOWS: March 2-3: Holocaust Educators Symposium Teaching the Holocaust: Lessons for the Future University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Call: 414-963-2719
April 9: Center for Holocaust Studies Brookdale College, NJ
October 18th: Edgewood Country Club, River Vale, NJ
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INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES
The Arts Depot, London, UK New End Theatre, London, UK Winchester University, UK The JFS Theatre, London, UK Centrum Judaicum, Berlin, Germany Edinburgh Fringe Festival, UK The Lele Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania Chutzpah Festival, Vancouver, Canada Hakoah Club, Sydney, Australia Baxter Theatre, Cape Town, South Africa Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland The US Holocaust Museum, DC, USA 59E59 Theatres, NY USA Manhattan JCC, NY USA The Blue Heron Theatre, NY Queens Museum, Queens, NY New York State Theatre Institute, NY O’Neill Cabaret Conference, CT The Cabaret Conference at Yale, CT 14th St. Playhouse, Atlanta, GA Hollywood Arts and Culture, FL YWHA Clifton-Passaic, NJ Boston Center for the Arts, MA Caulfield Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia Vero Beach Art Museum, FL James Madison University, VA Emory University, Atlanta, GA Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton, MA Striar JCC, Stoughton, MA Flanzer JCC, Sarasota, FL JCC on the Palisades, NJ Spingold Theatre, Waltham, MA Emory University, Atlanta, GA Mizel Museum, Denver CO The Nomad Theatre, Boulder, CO Boynton Beach JCC, FL Fort Monmouth Army Base, NJ One by One Conference, NY Fort Worth, TX |