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MTC Announces World Premiere of Penelope Skinner's THE RUINS OF CIVILIZATION, Directed by Leah C. Gardiner

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 05:46 pm EDT 10/29/15

Manhattan Theatre Club Announces World Premiere of The Ruins of Civilization Written By Penelope Skinner Directed By Leah C. Gardiner Previews Begin Wednesday, May 4; Opening Wednesday, May 18 at The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street) Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce Manhattan Theatre Club will produce the world premiere of The Ruins of Civilization, the new play by award-winning playwright Penelope Skinner (The Village Bike), directed by Obie Award winner Leah C. Gardiner (Born Bad). This world premiere will be presented in spring 2016 as part of MTC’s The Studio at Stage II – Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center – Stage II (131 West 55th Street). Sometime in the future, Dolores and Silver are living their married life within the constraints and norms of a new world order. In an act of what seems like pure generosity, Dolores secretly opens their home to a stranger in need; but will she come to regret it? Can her actions have an impact or is it just too late? A bold world premiere thriller, The Ruins of Civilization explores our need for free will and connection, even in a world on the brink of extinction. It's the latest work from Penelope Skinner, the award winning author of The Village Bike. Casting, creative team, and additional listings information for The Ruins of Civilization will be announced in the coming weeks. For additional details on The Ruins of Civilization and all MTC shows, visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com. For more information and to sign up for MTC’s “30 Under 30” program for theatergoers age 30 and under visit www.manhattantheatreclub.com/30under30/ Manhattan Theatre Club, under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, has become one of the country’s most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. Over the past four and a half decades, MTC productions have earned numerous awards including six Pulitzer Prizes and 19 Tony Awards. MTC has a Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and two Off-Broadway theatres at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street). Renowned MTC productions include Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour; Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein; Outside Mullingar and Doubt by John Patrick Stanley; The Commons of Pensacola by Amanda Peet; Murder Ballad by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash; Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney; The Assembled Parties by Richard Greenberg; Wit by Margaret Edson; Venus in Fur by David Ives; Good People and Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire; The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez; Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies; Ruined by Lynn Nottage; Proof by David Auburn; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife by Charles Busch; Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence McNally; The Piano Lesson by August Wilson; Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley; and Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Fats Waller musical to name just a few. For more information on MTC, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com. The Studio at Stage II is Manhattan Theatre Club’s initiative at New York City Center – Stage II (131 West 55th Street). The initiative launched in 2012 with the sold out, critically acclaimed world premiere of Murder Ballad, the rock musical by Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash and has continued with the critically acclaimed premieres of Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Taking Care of Baby by Dennis Kelly, The Lion by Benjamin Scheuer, By The Water by Sharyn Rothstein, and Heisenberg by Simon Stephens. On Tuesday, November 10, the world premiere of Important Hats of the Twentieth Century, Nick Jones’ new comedy, will begin previews as part of The Studio at Stage II’s 2015-2016 season. The Studio at Stage II has been partially underwritten with a major grant from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. TICKETING Ticketing and performance schedule information for The Ruins of Civilization will be announced at a later date. In order to ensure that tickets to all shows presented as part of The Studio at Stage II are affordable to the widest and most diverse audiences possible, MTC will price tickets for the first five weeks of The Ruins of Civilization at $30. BIOGRAPHIES PENELOPE SKINNER (Playwright) won both of the UK’s most promising playwriting prizes in 2011 for her play The Village Bike which premiered at London’s Royal Court Theatre and made its American debut at MCC in 2014 in a critically-acclaimed production starring Greta Gerwig and directed by Sam Gold. Her other plays include Fred’s Diner (Chichester Festival Theatre, forthcoming American premiere at the Magic Theatre, fall 2015), Eigengrau (Bush Theatre), and Fucked (Old Red Lion). She has written films for directors Kevin MacDonald and Susanne Bier and was a writer for several seasons on Channel 4’s “Fresh Meat.” Her newest play Linda will receive its world premiere this season at the Royal Court Theatre in a production directed by Michael Longhurst and starring Kim Cattrall. LEAH C. GARDINER (Director). New York theatre credits include Fidelis (Public Theater), generations (Soho Rep, U.S. premiere), Born Bad (Obie Award, Soho Rep, U.S. premiere,), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Atlantic Theater Company, U.S. premiere), Bulrusher (Urban Stages, world premiere and Pulitzer finalist), Pitbulls (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), The Ghost of Enoch Charlton (Keen Company), and Kent, CT (Zipper Theater). Select national credits include Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes from the Field (Berkeley Rep, world premiere); Veils (Barrington Stage Company); Antony and Cleopatra and Othello (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Fences (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Alliance Theatre); Sucker Punch (Studio Theatre, U.S. premiere); Clementine in the Lower Nine (TheatreWorks, world premiere); Blue Door (South Coast Repertory, world premiere and Pulitzer finalist); Orange Flower Water (Contemporary American Theatre Festival, world premiere); The Flag Maker of Market Street (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, world premiere); The Last Five Years (Crossroads Theatre Company); A Streetcar Named Desire (Pillsbury House Theatre); Topdog/Underdog (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Birdie Blue (City Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Madison Repertory Theatre); Angels in America, Parts I and II (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); Broadway’s The Normal Heart (Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, re-staging director); and the national tour of Wit (Kennedy Center, Ordway, among others). As a writer/director she created and developed Cultures Collide (Sony Entertainment); as a short film director, The Belle of New Orleans (Alliance Theatre); and as a film producer, Mother of George, best cinematography, Sundance. She will make her screen acting debut in Ira Sachs’s forthcoming film Thank You for Being Honest opposite Greg Kinnear. Leah holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com/TheStudio

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