| Award-Winning Playwright Tina Howe Will Debut New Play at HERE Beginning July 22 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:54 pm EDT 06/29/17 | |
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| THEATRE 167 ANNOUNCES THE WORLD PREMIERE OF SINGING BEACH BY AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT TINA HOWE DIRECTED BY ARI LAURA KREITH A STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! PREVIEWS BEGIN JULY 22 OPENS SUNDAY JULY 30 HERE Mainstage At HERE Arts Center Theatre 167 is thrilled to announce that Singing Beach, the latest work by renowned playwright Tina Howe, will have its world premiere at HERE Mainstage (HERE Arts Center, 145 Sixth Avenue) beginning Saturday, July 22, 2017. Singing Beach opens Sunday, July 30th at 4 pm. This exciting world premiere will play a strictly limited engagement through Saturday, August 12. An Obie Award Winner, Tony nominee, and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Ms. Howe is best known for her plays Museum, The Art of Dining, Pride’s Crossing, Painting Churches and Costal Disturbances, which introduced Tim Daly and Annette Bening to Broadway audiences. Singing Beach is her first full-length play in eight years. As a Category 4 hurricane approaches Singing Beach, the Sleeper clan is struggling with storms of its own. A riveting new drama, Singing Beach deals with climate change, aging, and the power of imagination to change the world. Directed by Ari Laura Kreith, Singing Beach will feature Erin Beirnard* (End of Summer, Metropolitan Playhouse), Devin Haqq* (Richard III, Epic Theatre Ensemble), Jackson Demott Hill* (Finding Neverland, Broadway), John P. Keller* (Nicholas Nickleby, Orlando Shakespeare), Tuck Milligan* (The Kentucky Cycle, Kennedy Center-Helen Hayes Award, Broadway), Elodie Morss (Chess, White Plains Performing Arts Center), and Naren Weiss* (Guards at the Taj, Geffen Playhouse). The production will also feature scenic design by Jen Price Fick, lighting design by Matthew Fick, costume design by Caroline Spitzer, and prop design by Kelly Pooler. Working Artist Theatre is the associate producer. Tickets for Singing Beach start at $30 are available from Ovationtix by phone at 866-811-4111. Performances will take place Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:30pm and Sundays at 4:00pm. ----- ABOUT THEATRE 167 Theatre 167 (Artistic Director, Ari Laura Kreith; Artistic Producer, Jenny Lyn Bader) Born in a community where 167 languages are spoken, Theatre 167 creates, cultivates, and supports new work by artists of wide-ranging backgrounds, traditions, and beliefs. Our process is deeply collaborative, and we are particularly interested in investigating intersections, boundaries and borders—both cultural and artistic—and exploring how the telling of our individual and collective stories inspires us to appreciate a multiplicity of voices. We bring our community together to share innovative, generous and entertaining theatrical events—events that deepen and enhance our understanding of one another and of the role of theatre in our civic dialogue. WHO’S WHO TINA HOWE (Playwright) Tina Howe’s plays include The Nest, Birth and After Birth, Museum, The Art of Dining, Painting Churches, Coastal Disturbances, Approaching Zanzibar, One Shoe Off, Pride’s Crossing, Such Small Hands, Rembrandt’s Gift, Chasing Manet and new translations of Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano and The Lesson as well as a host of shorter plays. Her works have premiered at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Kennedy Center, Second Stage, The Old Globe Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Primary Stages and the Atlantic Theater Company. Among her many awards are an Obie for Distinguished Playwriting, a Tony nomination for Best Play, an Outer Circle Critics Award, a Rockefeller Grant, two N.E.A. Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Sidney Kingsley Award, the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Lilly Award for Lifetime Achievement, Pen’s Master American Playwright Award, two honorary degrees and the William Inge Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre. A two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Miss Howe has served on the council of the Dramatists Guild since 1990. ARI LAURA KREITH (Director) is the Artistic Director of Theatre 167, where she conceived/directed The Jackson Heights Trilogy —167 Tongues, You Are Now the Owner of This Suitcase, and Jackson Heights 3AM — collaboratively written by 18 playwrights featuring 37 actors playing 93 roles in 14 languages. Other projects include Mourning Sun, which premiered in New York and toured to Uganda, and Pirira, which received the 2014 NYIT Award for Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play. Her work has been commissioned by Queens Theatre and the New Ohio Theatre, and she has created site-specific/immersive projects for Queens Museum and the NY Transit Museum. Her adaptation of Marina Budhos’ novel Watched, which explores the impact of surveillance on Muslim-American communities, is currently touring. Ari received the 2016 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award in recognition of her work as a director and the body of work Theatre 167 has created under her leadership. BA: Yale. MFA: UC Davis. www.arilaurakreith.com DEVIN E. HAQQ* (Gabriel) A native of Nashville, Tennessee, has appeared Off-Broadway at the Barrow Group, Roundabout Theatre Company, and most recently in New York Shakespeare Exchange’s production of Much Ado About Nothing. Devin has also appeared in numerous regional theatre productions including As You Like It (The Arden Theatre) and Camp Logan (Boston Center for the Arts). Film/TV credits include: Secret Game, "Surprise" (HBO promo directed by Sam Mendes), Law & Order, Ambition's Debt, Wendell and the Lemon, Francis of Brooklyn, and The Assassin. Devin also directed Ambition’s Debt, winner of Best Narrative Feature Film at the 2017 American Black Film Festival (ABFF). ERIN BEIRNARD* (Merrie/Miss Blake) Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, Erin has performed extensively in NYC (Irondale Ensemble Project, Metropolitan Playhouse, Storm Theatre, Gallery Players) and regionally (Pittsburgh Public, Bickford). Favorite roles include Rosalind, Ophelia, and Portia. Erin holds a B.A. from Yale and a graduate degree from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity; visit her at www.erinbeirnard.com. JACKSON DEMOTT HILL* (Tyler/Credo). Broadway: Finding Neverland (George/Peter). Off-Broadway: As You Like It (Adam), NY Classical Theatre; A Doll's House (Jon), BAM/The Young Vic; Billy Budd (Powder Monkey), Brooklyn Academy of Music; TV/Film: “Celebrity Ghost Stories”, Fourteen Seeds, Baptizm of Joshua Cohen, Retire for the Evening. Jackson is a NYC native, honing his talents with Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, Wingspan Arts, Philip Pelkington, Sheila Gray and Nic Cory. He currently studies vocals at the Kaufman Music Center Special Music High School. In addition to acting and singing, Jackson plays ultimate frisbee, is an avid gamer and is a dedicated “foodie.” JOHN P. KELLER* (Owen/Sebastian) TV: Beckert on Boardwalk Empire (HBO). New York Theater: world premieres of Mourning Sun, You Are Now the Owner of This Suitcase and Jackson Heights 3AM with Theater 167; the 2012 NY revival of The Violet Hour. Regional: Pericles in world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s Adventures of Pericles, Stephano in Tempest, Nicholas in Nicholas Nickleby, Jonathan Harker in Dracula, Roderigo in Othello and Edward in Sense and Sensibility (all at Orlando Shakespeare). Cohn in Captors (Contemporary American Theater Festival). International: the Balinese Arts Festival, the Kampala International Theater Festival in Uganda. John holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Rutgers University where he also teaches Theater for Social Development. John serves as co-Producer of coLAB Arts in NJ, committed to creating innovative socially engaged arts programming. Proud member of Actors Equity Association. TUCK MILLIGAN* (Sleeper) Mr. Milligan received the Helen Hayes Award for the seven roles he originated in the Pulitzer-winning play The Kentucky Cycle. Broadway: Gem of the Ocean, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Herbal Bed, The Crucifer of Blood and Equus. Off-B’way: Freud’s Last Session, The First Breeze of Summer, Stuff Happens, Book of Days, Everybody’s Rudy and The Grey Zone. Regional: Syracuse Stage, GEVA, New Rep, Hartford Stage, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Seattle Rep, Intiman, South Coast Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Kennedy Center and the La Jolla Playhouse Film: State Of Play, Kinsey, Company Man, Heaven’s Prisoners, Of Mice and Men and The Russia House. Last season Mr. Milligan recurred as Finch’s Dad on Person Of Interest. Other TV: Boardwalk Empire, Rescue Me, Law & Order: SVU & CI, Chappelle’s Show, Oz, Ed. Games: “GTA-V” and “BioShock2.” Member: EST-NY and Antaeus Co.-LA. ELODIE MORSS (Piper) is ten years old. She was recently seen as Ruby Roo in Theatre 167's You Are Now the Owner of This Suitcase at the West End Theatre. Other credits include Young Florence in Chess at White Plains Performing Arts Center, and Valkyrie in Theatre 167's The Church of Why Not. She also sings, does gymnastics, and plays the flute. NAREN WEISS* (Bennie/The Captain) U.S. Theater: Tear a Root from the Earth (Kennedy Center), Guards at the Taj (Geffen Playhouse), Monsoon Wedding (NYC Lab), Over Here (NYC Fringe) and The Abridged History of Modern Day India (Hollywood Fringe). Television: Elementary, Broad City, The Blacklist: Redemption and Law and Order: SVU. Film: Love is a Broadway Hit, Good Night | Good Morning and Vishwaroopam. Playwright: Plays performed in India, Singapore, South Africa, the United States. Training: M.F.A., Brooklyn College. |
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