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Primary Stages announces final production and directors for 2015-16 season

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 01:25 pm EDT 05/08/15

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) has announced the fourth production of their upcoming 31st Season to be performed at The Duke on 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street® project: PERFECT ARRANGEMENT In association with MARS Theatricals New York Premiere by TOPHER PAYNE Directed by MICHAEL BARAKIVA September - November, 2015 In Topher Payne's biting comedy, Perfect Arrangement, it's the 1950s and the age of the Red Scare. The Martindales and the Baxters have manufactured a life as peppy as a sitcom, right down to the corny jokes and occasional product placement... but when a co-worker at the US State Department discovers their deepest secret, the worlds of "I Love Lucy" and Edward R. Murrow clash in hilarious, ironic, and genuinely moving ways. Long before Stonewall, nothing is as it seems in this New York Premiere directed by Michael Barakiva (White People) which won the 2014 American Critics Association Osborn New Play Award. Additionally, Primary Stages has announced the directors for the three productions previously announced for the 2015-2016 season: INFORMED CONSENT New York City Premiere by DEBORAH ZOE LAUFER Directed by LIESL TOMMY August - September, 2015 An electrifying new play by one of the most exciting voices in American theater, Informed Consent is an "urgent, challenging, and of-the-moment" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) drama about one woman's quest to answer the mysteries of science and her own life, inspired by a landmark court case between one of the country's largest universities and a Native American tribe based in the Grand Canyon. In the past year alone, Deborah Zoe Laufer has had over 20 productions of her plays performed throughout the country and we are thrilled to present Informed Consent in its Off-Broadway Premiere in a co-production with Ensemble Studio Theatre as a part of their Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project, directed by Obie winner Liesl Tommy (Appropriate, The Good Negro). THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN New York premiere by DAN O'BRIEN Directed by JO BONNEY February - March, 2016 Winner of the 2014 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play and the Inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Award (shared with All The Way). The Body of an American tells the true story of an extraordinary friendship as two men, a war photojournalist and playwright, journey from some of the most dangerous places on earth to the depths of the human soul. Winning rave reviews for its previous productions in London and elsewhere, The Body of an American by Dan O'Brien is "a play that tightens its grip as it probes where war lives, and discovers we each carry it inside ourselves." (The Guardian) The play will be directed by Obie winner Jo Bonney (Father Comes Home from the Wars..., Small Engine Repair) in association with Hartford Stage. EXIT STRATEGY New York premiere by IKE HOLTER Directed by KIP FAGAN March - May, 2016 Afiery, riveting work from the award-winning writer of Hit the Wall, about the chaotic final days of a Chicago public school, Exit Strategy is a taut, edge-of-your-seat drama about the future of public education from a vital new voice in American playwriting. Named "Chicagoan of the Year in Theater" by the Chicago Tribune, Ike Holter brings his "thrilling, beautiful" new play to Primary Stages for its New York Premiere after winning rave reviews for a thrice-extended sold-out run in Chicago. Produced in association with Philadelphia Theatre Company, Exit Strategy will be directed by Kip Fagan, whose recent credits include Grand Concourse and The Revisionist. "After embarking upon a tremendous season of new work from playwrights Theresa Rebeck, Billy Porter and David Ives over the past year," says Primary Stages Founder & Executive Producer, Casey Childs, "we are eager to announce our 31st season of new and exciting American plays. These plays simply need to be produced in New York City right now and the team here at Primary Stages is thrilled to bring them to the foreground of the Off-Broadway scene, where they so rightfully deserve to be experienced." SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRIMARY STAGES 2015/16 SEASON: Subscriptions for the Primary Stages 2015/16 season range from $140 to $180. Flex Pass subscriptions are also offered and begin at $45 per ticket (with a minimum purchase of 5 Flex Pass tickets for the season.) All subscription packages can be purchased by visiting PrimaryStages.org or by calling Ticket Central at 212.279.4200. Single tickets for all productions will go on sale at a later date with The Duke on 42nd Street box office. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR OF INFORMED CONSENT DEBORAH ZOE LAUFER (Informed Consent, playwright) plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Portland Stage, and eighty other theaters around the country, in Germany, Russia and Canada. End Days was awarded The ATCA Steinberg citation and appeared at Ensemble Studio Theatre through an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant. Informed Consent, which was a Sloan commission will be produced in 2015 by Primary Stages and EST at the Duke Theatre in NYC. Other plays include Leveling Up, Sirens, Out of Sterno, The Last Schwartz, Meta, The Three Sisters of Weehawken, Fortune, The Gulf of Westchester, Miniatures, and Random Acts. Deb is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and the Lilly Award and grants and commissions from The Edgerton Foundation, the NEA and NNPN. Her plays have been developed at PlayPenn, The Eugene O'Neill NPC, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ojai, The Missoula Colony, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Dramatists Guild, New Georges, The Lark, Asolo Rep. and the Baltic Playwrights Conference. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and The Dramatists Guild. DeborahZoeLaufer.com. LIESL TOMMY (Informed Consent, director) Off-Broadway: Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth), The Good Negro (The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center), Angela's Mixtape (Synchronicity Performance Group, New Georges), A Stone's Throw (Women's Project). Regional/international: Les Miserables (Dallas Theater Center), Party People (OSF, Berkeley Rep), The White Man - A Complex Declaration of Love (DanskDansk Theatre, Denmark), Peggy Picket Sees the Face of God (Luminato Festival/Canadian Stage), Eclipsed (Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth), A History of Light (Contemporary American Theatre Festival), Hamlet (California Shakespeare), A Raisin in the Sun, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Huntington), American Buffalo (Baltimore Centre Stage), He is Here He Says I Say (Sundance East Africa), The Piano Lesson (Yale Rep), Ruined (OSF, La Jolla, Huntington, Berkeley Rep), Crimes of the Heart(McCarter), Book of Life (Sundance East Africa), Yankee Tavern, Stick Fly (CATF), A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep). Liesl is an Artist Trustee on the Sundance Institute Board, a Program Associate at Sundance Institute Theatre program and the Associate Director at Berkeley Rep. She was awarded the inaugural Susan Stroman Directing Award from the Vineyard Theater, tthe Alan Schneider Award from TCG, the NEA/TCG Directors Grant and the New York Theatre Workshop Casting/Directing Fellowship. Liesl has guest directed at Juilliard, Trinity Rep/Brown University's MFA Directing Program, The Strasberg Institute, and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Liesl is a proud alum of Trinity Rep Conservatory. She is a native of Cape Town, South Africa. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR OF PERFECT ARRANGEMENT TOPHER PAYNE(Perfect Arrangement, playwright) is an unapologetic eavesdropper and collector of stories who makes his home in Atlanta. His works for the stage include Swell Party, The Only Light in Reno, Above the Fold (Metro Atlanta Theatre Award, Best Original Work & Best Play of the Year), Angry Fags (Gene-Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award), Evelyn in Purgatory (Essential Theatre Playwriting Award), and Perfect Arrangement (American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award). He has been named Atlanta's Best Playwright by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, and The Sunday Paper, and was featured as one of "Ten Playwrights You Should Know" by Southern Theatre Magazine. His column for The Georgia Voice, Domestically Disturbed, won the 2012 National Newspaper Association award for Best Humor Column. He is an artistic associate with Flying Carpet Theatre in New York, and The Process Theatre in Atlanta. His audiobook, Funny Story: The Incomplete Works of Topher Payne, is available on iTunes, Audible, and Amazon. Topher and his beagle, Daisy, were both born in Mississippi, but they didn't fit in there. MICHAEL BARAKIVA (Perfect Arrangement, director) is an Armenian/Israeli theater director and writer based in New York City. His first novel, One Man Guy, published by Macmillan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was named to the Rainbow List and will be released in Brazil by LeYa. Michael also serves as the Artistic Director of The Upstart Creatures (www.upstartcreatures.com), a theater company dedicated to creating unique artistic events combining theater and food. New York: White People by Neil Cuthbert, They Float Up by Jacquelyn Reingold (both at Ensemble Studio Theater), The Usher's Ball by Fengar Gael (CAP 21), as well as workshops/readings at the Roundabout Theater Company, ARS Nova, New Dramatists, NY Stage & Film and New York Theater Workshop. Regionally, he was directed at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Theater J, the Hangar Theater, Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference, Premiere Stages and the Nevada Conservatory Theater. Michael is a recipient of the David Merrick Prize in Drama, a Drama League Summer Fellowship, a Granada Fellowship at UC Davis and the Phil Killian Fellowship in Directing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is an avid board-game player, and a proud member of the New York Ramblers, the world's first openly-gay soccer club. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the Juilliard School, where he studied as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Directing. www.michaelbarakiva.com ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR OF THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN DAN O'BRIEN (The Body of an American, playwright). Dan O'Brien's The Body of an American premiered at Portland Center Stage, directed by Bill Rauch, and received the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Drama, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. In 2014 The Body of an American received a European premiere at the Gate Theatre in London and Royal & Derngate in Northampton, directed by James Dacre, and was shortlisted for an Evening Standard Drama Award. O'Brien's debut poetry collection War Reporter was published in 2013 in the US and the UK, where it received the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. O'Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel. JO BONNEY (The Body of an American, director) Premieres: Suzan-Lori Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars (The Public Theater & ART, Boston); Neil LaBute's adaptation of Strindberg's Miss Julie (Geffen Theater); Lanford Wilson's The Mound Builders (Signature Theater); David Rabe's An Early History of Fire (The New Group); Eve Ensler's Emotional Creature (Johannesburg & Cape Town, S.A.; Cine 13, Paris; Berkeley Theater; Signature Theater, NY); Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Second Stage, NY; Geffen Playhouse) (Drama Desk & Lucille Lortel Nom. Best Director); Neil LaBute's Break of Noon and Fat Pig (MCC & Geffen); Culture Clash's American Night (OSF, La Jolla Playhouse, The Kirk Douglas); Naomi Wallace's The Hard Weather Boating Party (Humana Festival) and Fever Chart (Public Theater); Michael Weller's Beast (New York Theatre Workshop); Alan Ball's All that I Will Ever Be (NYTW); Jose Rivera's Adoration of the Old Woman (La Jolla Playhouse) and Reference to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Public Theater); Will Power's The Seven (NYTW & La Jolla Playhouse) (L. Lortel Best Musical); Darci Picoult's Lil's 90th (Long Wharf Theatre); Christopher Shinn's On the Mountain (Playwrights Horizons); Universes' Slanguage (NYTW/ Mark Taper Forum); Diana Son's Stop Kiss and Anna Deavere Smith's House Arrest (Public Theater); Jessica Goldberg's Good Thing (The New Group); Danny Hoch's Some People and Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (USA/Britain); Dael Orlandersmith's Stoop Stories (Studio Theatre, Washington & The Goodman Theatre); Eric Bogosian's Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll; Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead (USA/Britain) & Humpty Dumpty (McCarter Theatre) among others. Productions: John Pollono's Small Engine Repair (MCC); Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics (Arena Stage); Caryl Churchill's Top Girls (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Neil LaBute's Some Girl(s) (MCC); Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Signature Theatre) (L. Lortel Best Revival); Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play and Lisa Loomer's Living Out (Second Stage); John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (CSC) Recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction, the Lilly Award and editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG). ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT & DIRECTOR OF EXIT STRATEGY IKE HOLTER (Exit Strategy, playwright) Ike Holter's work has been produced at The Steppenwolf Garage, LiveWire Chicago, Theater 7, The Greenhouse Theater, Theater on The Lake and The Inconvenience, where he is a founding member and resident writer. He's received fellowships and commissions from The Goodman Theater, The Kennedy Center, Writers Theater and Teatro Vista. His show Hit The Wall played at Steppenwolf Garage and Off-Broadway at The Barrow Street Theater in New York. Jackalope Theater produced his new play Exit Strategy, which played to sold-out houses and transferred to Michigan. He was recently named Playwright of the Year by the Chicago Reader and Chicagoan of the Year for Theater by The Chicago Tribune. His monologues have been published in The New Yorker and several editions of Applause Books. KIP FAGAN (Exit Strategy, director) mostly recently directed Erin Courtney's I Will Be Gone at the Humana Festival in Louisville and Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse at Playwrights Horizons in NYC. At Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre: Jesse Eisenberg's The Revisionist (starring Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave), Halley Feiffer's How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them, Eisenberg's Asuncion, Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets, and Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play. Other NYC credits include: Carlos Murillo's A Thick Description of Harry Smith and Samuel D. Hunter's Jack's Precious Moment (Page 73); Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith's Radio Play (P.S. 122); Ariel Stess's I'm Pretty Fucked Up, Sheila Callaghan's Roadkill Confidential, and Rachel Hoeffel's Quail (Clubbed Thumb); Zayd Dohrn's Reborning and Cory Hinkle's Cipher (SPF); Sheila Callaghan's Recess and Christopher Durang's Not a Creature Was Stirring (The Flea); Greg Keller's The Young Left (Cherry Lane); Sam Marks's Nelson (Partial Comfort). Regional credits include: Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Humana Festival, George Street Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Marin Theatre Company, and City Theatre, among others. Taught and/or directed at Juilliard, NYU, SUNY Purchase, Strasberg Institute. Upcoming: Susan Soon He Stanton's Today Is My Birthday at Sundance Theatre Lab and Sheila Callaghan's Women Laughing Alone With Salad at Woolly Mammoth. Co-founder of Printer's Devil in Seattle; affiliated artist at Clubbed Thumb. PRIMARY STAGES is an Off-Broadway not-for-profit theater company dedicated to inspiring, supporting, and sharing the art of playwriting. We operate on the strongly held belief that the future of American theater relies on nurturing playwrights and giving them the artistic support needed to create new work. Since our founding in 1984, we have produced more than 120 new plays, including Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment (1995 premiere and 2013 revival); David Ives' All in the Timing (original 1993 production and 2013 revival); Billy Porter's While I Yet Live; Kate Fodor's Rx; Charles Busch's The Tribute Artist and Olive and the Bitter Herbs; A.R. Gurney's Black Tie; Horton Foote's Harrison, TX and Dividing the Estate (Two 2009 Tony Award®nominations); Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior;Brooke Berman's Hunting and Gathering; Terrence McNally's Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams and The Stendhal Syndrome; Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter's In the Continuum (which went on to tour the U.S., Africa, and Scotland); and Conor McPherson's St. Nicholas (which marked the playwright's U.S. debut). Our productions and artists have received critical acclaim, including Tony, Obie, Lortel, AUDELCO, Outer Critics' Circle, Drama League, and Drama Desk awards and nominations. Primary Stages supports playwrights and develops new works through commissions, workshops, readings, and our education and training programs: The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), the Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting, and the newly launched Primary Stages Off-Broadway Oral History Project. Through these programs, Primary Stages advocates for our artists, helping them make important-and often transformative-connections within the theater community. About The New 42nd Street Building on the foundation of seven historic theaters, The New 42nd Street leads the dynamic evolution of the reinvented 42nd Street, cultivating a unique New York City cultural and entertainment destination through its three projects: The New Victory Theater, a performing arts theater devoted to kids and families; the NEW 42ND STREET Studios, a state-of-the-art, 10-story performing arts complex for rehearsal, performance and arts administration; and The Duke on 42nd Street, an intimate black-box theater. An independent, nonprofit organization, The New 42nd Street is committed to the transformational power of the arts. About The Duke on 42nd Street The Duke on 42nd Street is an intimate black-box theater available for rental to both domestic and international nonprofit and commercial organizations. Featuring a gallery along all four walls and a custom-built, state-of-the-art seating system, the flexible-use space offers full light, sound and support systems in various configurations. The Duke on 42nd Street is a fully-staffed, full service facility in the heart of the theater district. Many performing arts companies have called the space their home, including The Royal Court Theatre, Transport Group, Theatre for a New Audience, Lincoln Center Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Armitage Gone! Dance, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Naked Angels, Classical Theater of Harlem, Playwrights Horizons, 92nd Street Y's Harkness Dance Project, The NYC Tap Festival and Lincoln Center Great Performers and the National Theater of Great Britain.
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