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Devil Lay Me Down part of the 2014 “Dream Up Festival”

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 03:40 pm EDT 08/12/14

Theater for the New City, Crystal Field (Artistic Director) Proudly Presents the World Premiere of Devil Lay Me Down By Ean Miles Kessler Starring MARA GANNON, JOSEPH RYAN WILLIAMSON, STEPHEN D’AMAB[1]ROSE Directed by DAVID DELANEY As part of the 2014 “Dream Up Festival” LIMITED ENGAGEMENT SUN, AUGUST 17 @ 2 PM, TUES, AUGUST 19 @ 9 PM, WED, AUGUST 20 @ 9 PM, THURS, AUGUST 21 @ 6:30 PM, & FRI, AUGUST 22 @ 9 PM THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY COMMUNITY THEATER OPENING PERFORMANCE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 AT 2 P.M. GET TICKETS AT: www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID&showCode=DEV11&BundleCode&PackageCode&GUID=8ccb3c20-e967-41c9-899c-605c38956371 Website & Photos: www.devillaymedown.com Running Time: 90 minutes, including one intermission Theater for the New City is located at 155 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003 GENERAL INFORMATION Theater for the New City, Crystal Field (Artistic Director) Proudly Presents the World Premiere of “Devil Lay Me Down” by Ean Miles Kessler, as a part of the 2014 Dream Up Festival. Written by Ean Miles Kessler (“Funny Valentine” and “Brotherly Love” published by Vintage Books; “Beautiful Hands” Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Semi-Finalist), and directed by David Delaney (Resident Director at The Flea Theater, “Slaves of Our Lives,” and “The Magical Book of Misconception;” “Beautiful Hands;” “King's River”). DEVIL LAY ME DOWN will play a limited engagement at the Community Theater, at Theater for the New City (155 1st Ave, New York, NY 10003). Performances are Sunday, August 17th @ 2pm (Opening), Tuesday, August 19 @ 9pm, Wednesday, August 20 @ 9pm, Thursday, August 21 @ 6:30pm, & Friday August 22 @ 9pm. Tickets are $15 and are available at: www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID&showCode=DEV11&BundleCode&PackageCode&GUID=8ccb3c20-e967-41c9-899c-605c38956371 Or by calling (212) 868-4444. You can also visit Theater for the New City to purchase tickets, (from Midday until the last performance commences). SYNOPSIS: Julian Carthy returns from prison to his father’s trailer on the Texas-Mexico border, hell-bent on carving a fresh life and finding his daughter. There he finds his father Marcus, living with Ro—his much younger live-in girlfriend. And when a spark of interest lights between Julian and Ro, old tensions seethe between father and son, drawing Julian’s brutal past to the surface. A modern Western, at its heart Devil Lay Me Down is a brutal love story, and love song to the American West. CAST & PRODUCTION TEAM The production stars Stephen D’Ambrose* (Broadway National Tour, August: Osage County; Film credits include: Sweet Land, Herman USA, Factotem) as Marcus; Joseph Ryan Williamson* (SAG-AFTRA, member of Barrow Group) as Julian, and Mara Gannon (The Witches, King's River (original cast), Romeo and Juliet) as Ro. Produced by Glenn Quentin, the production features lighting design by Jeff Carr. BIOGRAPHIES EAN MILES KESSLER (Playwright): Rutgers, BFA Acting. Studied at Shakespeare’s Globe in England under Tony Nominated director Tim Carroll. While at the Globe, Ean performed the title role in Hamlet on the Globe Stage. Off-Off Broadway Playwriting credits: Brotherly Love; King’s River; The Bcam; Beautiful Hands (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival Semi-Finalist). Publications: Brotherly Love (“Shorter, Faster, Funnier,” by Vintage Books); Funny Valentine (“Plays for Two,” by Vintage Books). Ean’s play Devil Lay Me Down received a staged reading as a part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. Ean is a regular member of Naked Angels, and a proud Dramatist Guild Member. DAVID DELANEY (Director): David is a Brooklyn-based director and producer. Currently a Resident Director at The Flea Theater, previous credits include Slaves of Our Lives & The Magical Book of Misconception (#Serials@The Flea); Beautiful Hands (Samuel French OOB Festival Finalist); Brotherly Love (Random Houses' - Shorter, Faster, Funnier); & King's River. David has produced and developed work with Ma-Yi Theater, The Atlantic, Rutgers University, Shakespeare's Globe, and many more. Visittheflea.org to find information about his upcoming world premiere of The Week-end Cottage to be seen in The Flea's Cutthroat Series: Gran Guignol Duels. STEPHEN D’AMBROSE (Marcus): Stephen D’Ambrose is a 40 year stage veteran, with performances at theaters across the country, including: the Guthrie, The Old Globe, San Jose Rep., Arizona Theater Co., The Children’s Theatre Co., The Jungle Theater, and The Folger Shakespeare Theatre in DC. National tours include the Guthrie Theater’s Great Expectations and the Broadway National tour of Tracy Letts’ acclaimed August: Osage County. Before relocating to New York, in 2013, Stephen performed the world premiere, one-man show of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried by Jim Stowell. In 2000 he was awarded the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship - in recognition of his career-contributions as an actor in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. His film credits include: Sweet Land, Herman USA, Factotem, The Cure, A Christmas Carol, Trauma, and Vixen Highway. Stephen is happy to call New York home with his wife, actress, Barbara Kingsley MARA GANNON (Ro): Credits: an ongoing immersive theatre piece adapted from Shakespeare's Macbeth called The Witches, King's River (original cast), Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, how i learned to become a superhero (original cast), #nyc (original cast), Macbeth, WAKE, The Triumph of Love, The Crucible, Laundry and Bourbon, Dispatches From Hell, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Moment Defined, Wilde Abandon (original cast), The Infinite Dust (original cast), and others. MFA, Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. Mara is on faculty at Wagner College, where she teaches Acting Techniques Two, Public Speaking, Stage Dialects, Voice and Diction, and Voice Overs. JOSEPH RYAN WILLIAMSON (Julian): Joseph Ryan Williamson graduated with a BFA in Theatre from Western Kentucky University before becoming a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. For the past few years he has been training and performing with The Barrow Group. GLENN QUENTIN (Producer): BFA Acting graduate of Rutgers University Mason Gross. Writer and Producer for StageBuddy.com @stagebuddythtr Cast member of the long-running Off-Broadway comedy “Platanos and Collard Greens” @platanosg and supporting lead in the upcoming web series “Bi” @bi_thewebseries Past producer credits include "STILL" (G Tree Productions), "Leftovers" Staged Reading (Alchemical Theater Lab), "Red, White and Detroit" (Crownwheel Pictures) and creator of "Spoken Art Play Festival" (SPEAK). Some acting credits include "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO), "incitement" (Media Filmz), "A Midsummer Nights Dream" (Shakespeare's Globe). Quentin was awarded Most Innovative Script from the 2013 Thespis Festival for his play “Dinner With the Stevensons”. JEFF CARR (Lighting Design): MFA in Lighting Design from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Recent work includes Food! (William Paterson University) Hounds of War (Wee Man Productions) The Great Cinnamon Bear Christmas Radio Show (Pantochino Productions) Dani Girl (Open Hydrant Theater) 7th Inning Stretch (Mile Square Theater) The Nutcracker Ballet (Centenary College/NJ Civic Youth Ballet) King's River (Medicine Show) Under Construction (Rutgers University) Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Rutgers University) and Much Ado About Nothing (Rutgers University). ABOUT THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY & THE DREAM UP FESTIVAL THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York’s most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC’s Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Vin Diesel, Oscar Nuñez, Laurence Holder, Romulus Linney and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, the Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe and COBU, the Japanese women's drumming and dance group. TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company’s 1997 production of BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 42 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award. For more information, please visit: www.theaterforthenewcity.net

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