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| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS IS NOW ACCEPTING “LIVE for FIVE” LOTTERY ENTRIES STARTING TODAY, MONDAY, APRIL 2, FOR $5 TICKETS TO THE FIRST PREVIEW OF THE WORLD PREMIERE OF DANCE NATION A NEW PLAY BY OBIE AWARD WINNER CLARE BARRON DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY OBIE AWARD WINNER LEE SUNDAY EVANS “Live for Five” Ticketing Initiative Makes Available $5 Tickets for the First Performance of Every Production at Playwrights Horizons via an Online Ticket Lottery at www.phnyc.org Previews begin Friday, April 13 Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) begins accepting entries today, Monday, April 2, for the Live for Five online lottery for $5 tickets to the world premiere of DANCE NATION, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning new play by Obie Award winner Clare Barron (You Got Older, I’ll Never Love Again). Directed and choreographed by Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (Caught, D Deb Debbie Deborah, A Beautiful Day in November…, [Porto] ), the play is the fifth production of the theater company’s 2017/2018 Season. The Live for Five lottery for DANCE NATION will be for tickets to the first preview on Friday evening, April 13 at 7:30 PM at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street). The production has an Opening Night set for Tuesday, May 8 at 8PM and will play a limited engagement through Sunday, May 27. Celebrating over a decade, Live for Five was created by Playwrights Horizons in 2007 as part of their Arts Access program to reach out to those who may not be able to afford the cost of a full-price theater ticket. The ticketing initiative makes a limited number of $5 tickets available for the first preview performance of each Playwrights Horizons production through a lottery via the company’s website (www.phnyc.org ). Since its inception, over 2,000 theatergoers have been able to attend the theater thanks to the Live for Five initiative. Details for the Live for Five lottery are as follows: beginning today, Monday, April 2 at 12 Noon, theatergoers can enter the lottery by filling out an entry form at www.phnyc.org/L45. Entries will be accepted until Wednesday, April 4 at 12 Noon. Winners of the lottery will be notified via email no later than 3PM on Wednesday, April 4 with instructions on how to book their $5 tickets. Unclaimed tickets will be offered via email to a limited standby list starting at 12 Noon on Thursday, April 5 on a first-come, first-served basis. One or two tickets may be purchased by winners for $5 each. The cast of DANCE NATION features Purva Bedi (An Ordinary Muslim, Uncommon Sense, Veil’d), Eboni Booth (After the Blast, Fulfillment Center, The Cider House Rules), Camila Canó-Flaviá (Julius Caesar in London, My Jane), Obie Award winner Ellen Maddow (The Lily’s Revenge, Betty and the Blender, Painted Snake in a Painted Chair), Christina Rouner (Coram Boy, Eternal, Three Tall Women), Drama Desk Award winner Thomas Jay Ryan (The Crucible, In the Next Room, The Temperamentals), Dina Shihabi (regionally in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, “Jack Ryan,” “Daredevil”), Lucy Taylor (Fondly, Collette Richland; The Sound and the Fury; The Select: The Sun Also Rises) and Ikechukwu Ufomadu (Ike at Night, Nightcap by Ike, Ike Night). Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. But in Clare Barron’s raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves, and a fight to unleash their power. The production features scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Ásta Bennie Hostetter , lighting design by Barbara Samuels and sound design by Brandon Wolcott. Production Stage Manager is Erin Gioia Albrecht. The performance schedule for DANCE NATION is Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM, Saturdays at 2 & 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2 & 7PM. Single tickets, $39-89, may be purchased online via www.phnyc.org, by phone at (212) 279-4200 (Noon-8pm daily) and in person at the Ticket Central Box Office, 416 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues). Also reflecting Playwrights Horizons’ ongoing commitment to making its productions more affordable to younger audiences, the theater company will offer Hot Tix, $30 rush tickets, subject to availability, day of performance only, starting one hour before showtime, to patrons aged 30 and under. Proof of age required. One ticket per person, per purchase. Cash only. Live for Five and Hot Tix are two of Playwrights Horizons’ popular Arts Access initiatives, which allow the institution to reach out to those who may not be able to afford the cost of a full-price theater ticket. This program is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, McGraw Hill Financial and an anonymous Individual Donor. Currently in previews on the Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theatre is THIS FLAT EARTH, the world premiere of a new play by Lindsey Ferrentino, directed by Tony Award winner Rebecca Taichman (opens April 9). Following THIS FLAT EARTH and DANCE NATION, the Playwrights Horizons 2017/2018 Season will conclude with LOG CABIN, the world premiere of a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison, directed by Tony Award and Obie Award winner Pam MacKinnon, featuring Jesse Tyler Ferguson (June 2018). Flex Passes (customizable bundle, $220+) and Memberships ($45 to join, $25 preview tickets) are now on sale. Packages are available at www.phnyc.org . Playwrights Horizons recently announced its 2018/2019 Season, which will feature (in season order): I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, the New York premiere of a new play written by three-time Tony Award nominee and three-time Obie Award winner Craig Lucas, directed by Mr. Lucas and Tyne Rafaeli with Sabrina Dennison serving as Director of Artistic Sign Language, featuring Marianna Bassham, Tad Cooley, two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Emery, Theatre World Award winner Russell Harvard, two-time Tony Award nominee Lois Smith and Gameela Wright, and simultaneously performed in American Sign Language by a shadow cast of Deaf actors, including Beth Applebaum, Seth Gore, Dickie Hearts, Amelia Hensley, Anthony Natale and Alexandria Wailes (previews begin August 31, 2018); THE THANKSGIVING PLAY, the world premiere of a new play by Larissa FastHorse, directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel (October 2018); NOURA, the New York premiere of a new play written by and featuring Lucille Lortel Award winner Heather Raffo, directed by Joanna Settle, produced in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company (November 2018); IF PRETTY HURTS UGLY MUST BE A MUHFUCKA , the world premiere of a new play by Tori Sampson, directed by Tony Award nominee and Obie and Lucille Lortel awards winner Liesl Tommy (February 2019); THE PAIN OF MY BELLIGERENCE, the world premiere of a Playwrights Horizons commissioned new play written by and featuring Halley Feiffer, directed by Obie Award winner Trip Cullman ( April 2019) and conclude with A STRANGE LOOP, the world premiere of a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson and directed by Stephen Brackett, produced in association with Page 73 (May 2019). A 6-Show Subscription package to Playwrights Horizons’ 2018/2019 season is now available ($310, four Mainstage and two Peter Jay Sharp Theater productions). In addition to discounts on all season productions, subscribers receive priority booking and seating, ticket exchange privileges, parking and dining discounts, and exclusive mailings of Playwrights Horizons Bulletins. Flex Passes (customizable bundle, $220+) and Memberships ($45 to join, $25 preview tickets) are also now on sale. Patron packages start at $1,800. Packages are available at www.phnyc.org. Patron Program Memberships begin at $1,800 (all but $550 is tax-deductible) and include two reserved house seats and personalized concierge service to all six Playwrights Horizons productions, as well as a variety of exclusive benefits including invitations to attend special events with artists, staff and board members. Complete benefits list at www.phnyc.org . Playwrights Horizons’ season productions are generously supported in part by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Time Warner Foundation. www.phnyc.org www.Facebook.com/PlaywrightsHorizons Twitter: @phnyc Instagram: @phnyc BIOGRAPHIES Clare Barron (Playwright). Playwrights debut. Plays: You Got Older (Page 73, Steppenwolf, RADA), I’ll Never Love Again (Bushwick Starr), Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb, Woolly Mammoth). Upcoming: Dance Nation at the Almeida Theatre in London. Awards: Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Whiting Award, Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at The Vineyard, Page 73 Fellowship. Alum: Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, Working Farm at SPACE, Youngblood. Studied playwriting at Brooklyn College. Current member of New Dramatists. Clare grew up in Wenatchee, Washington. Thank you to all the artists who helped develop this show. Lee Sunday Evans ( Director/Choreographer). Playwrights debut. Recent credits: Miller, Mississippi by Boo Killebrew (Dallas Theatre Center); The Winter’s Tale (The Public); Home, Farmhouse/Whorehouse by Suzanne Bocanegra (BAM); Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner (LCT3); Caught by Christopher Chen (The Play Company); [Porto] by Kate Benson (WP, Bushwick Starr); A Beautiful Day in November… by Kate Benson (Obie, WP, New Georges); All the Roads Home by Jen Silverman (Cincinnati Playhouse); Macbeth (performed by three women, Hudson Valley); Wellesley Girl by Brendan Pelsue (Humana); D Deb Debbie Deborah by Jerry Lieblich (Clubbed Thumb). She creates original ensemble-devised performance work with CollaborationTown. Lee’s work has been presented and developed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Sundance Theatre Festival, CATCH, 59E59, New Ohio, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Culture Project, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Dixon Place, La MaMa. 2017 SDC Breakout Award, Vineyard Theatre’s 2016 Susan Stroman Award. Purva Bedi (Connie). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: An Ordinary Muslim (New York Theatre Workshop), Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project), IDIOT (HERE), Veil’d (WP), Rise of Dorothy Hale (St. Luke’s), There or Here (Hypothetical), East Is East (MTC/New Group). With Target Margin as Associate Artist: Reread Another, Tempest, Second Language, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, Old Comedy, 5 Hysterical Girls Theorem . Film: Sully, Equity, Kumare, Cosmopolitan, Green Card Fever, American Desi. TV: “Person of Interest,” “Madam Secretary,” “Nurse Jackie.” Co-Creator Assembled Identity (HERE). Eboni Booth (Zuzu). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: After the Blast (LCT3), Fulfillment Center (MTC); Sundown, Yellow Moon (Ars Nova/WP); Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep.); The Cider House Rules (Atlantic). Television: “The Americans,” “Show Me a Hero,” “Daredevil.” Camila Canó-Flaviá (Sofia). Playwrights debut. Regional: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare’s Globe Theater), My Jane (Chester Theatre Company). BFA: Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Ellen Maddow (Maeve). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: founding member (playwright, composer, performer) of Talking Band. Favorite roles: The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, The Room Sings, The Golden Toad, Betty and the Blenders, Marcellus Shale (La Mama); The Peripherals (Dixon Place), The Lily’s Revenge (HERE). Member of the Open Theater. Obie Award, Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre, NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, NEA/TCG Award for Playwrights, alumnus of New Dramatists. talkingband.org Christina Rouner (Vanessa/The Moms). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Coram Boy. Off-Broadway: This Is the Color…, Eternal, House for Sale, Tom Ryan Thinks…, Duchess of Malfi, Halfway Home, Three Tall Women. National tour: The Laramie Project, Three Tall Women. Regional: Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Westport, Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, La Jolla, Old Globe, Williamstown, others. Film: Mapplethorpe, Ned Rifle, I Dream Too Much, Taking Chance, Fur, The Skeptic, others. TV: “Blue Bloods,” “Billions,” “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Sex and the City,” “Law & Order,” “Law and Order: SVU,” others. Education: Yale, Juilliard. Thomas Jay Ryan (Dance Teacher Pat). Playwrights debut. Broadway: The Crucible, In the Next Room. He has originated roles in productions of new plays by Sarah Ruhl, Anne Washburn, Jordan Harrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Lucas Hnath, Will Eno, Dan LeFranc, Richard Foreman, Melissa James Gibson, Craig Lucas, and Ken Urban, among others. Film: many feature films, most prominently the title role in Hal Hartley’s Cannes Festival prize-winning Henry Fool Trilogy. TV: guest starring roles on many series. Awards: Drama Desk and Callaway awards, Drama League and Gemini nominations. Dina Shihabi (Amina). Playwrights debut. Regional: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Long Wharf). Film: Amira & Sam, David. TV: “Jack Ryan,” “Daredevil,” “Madam Secretary.” MFA: NYU Grad Acting. Lucy Taylor (Ashlee). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Fondly, Collette Richland (ERS, NYTW); The Sound and the Fury (ERS, The Public); Ancient Lives (Half Straddle, The Kitchen); The Select: The Sun Also Rises (ERS, NYTW). Regional: The Town Hall Affair (Wooster Group), The Select: The Sun Also Rises, Gatz (ERS). TV: “Madam Secretary,” “Bull, Horace and Pete,” “Limitless.” Training: VCA (Australia). Thank you Mum and Dad and August and all the babysitters. lucytaylor.org Ikechukwu Ufomadu (Luke) . Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Ike at Night (The Public/Under the Radar), Nightcap by Ike (Joe’s Pub at The Public), Ike Night (Ars Nova). Regional: The Shipment (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Warhol Museum), Drums on the Dam (London Institute of Contemporary Art), Vegas Nocturne (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). BFA: NYU. ikehimself.com @ikeminded Playwrights Horizons is dedicated to cultivating the most important American playwrights, composers and lyricists, as well as developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Under Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School and more. Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including six Pulitzer Prizes, 13 Tony Awards and 39 Obie Awards. Prior artistic directors include André Bishop and Don Scardino. Robert Moss founded Playwrights Horizons in 1971 and oversaw its first decade, cementing the mission that continues to guide the institution today. Notable productions include six Pulitzer Prize winners – Annie Baker’s The Flick (2013 Obie Award, 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park (2012 Tony Award, Best Play), Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George – as well as Ms. Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation (three 2010 Obie Awards including Best New American Play); Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit (2013 Obie Award, Best New American Play); Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale (2013 Lortel Award, Best Play); Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar (2012 Obie Award); Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime (2015 Pulitzer finalist); Lucas Hnath’s The Christians (2016 Obie Award, 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award, 2015 Kesselring Prize); Robert O’Hara’s Bootycandy (two 2015 Obie Awards); Max Posner’s The Treasurer, Adam Bock’s A Life and A Small Fire; Taylor Mac’s Hir; Danai Gurira’s Familiar; Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss and Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn; Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal; Amy Herzog’s The Great God Pan and After the Revolution; Bathsheba Doran’s Kin; Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I; Melissa James Gibson’s This (2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist); Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards); Craig Lucas’s Prayer For My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play); Adam Rapp’s Kindness; Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting); Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero; David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award); Kirsten Childs’s The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award); Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s James Joyce’s The Dead (2000 Tony Award, Best Book); Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins; William Finn’s March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland; Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; Richard Nelson’s Goodnight Children Everywhere; Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island; Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire; Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room; A.R. Gurney’s Later Life; Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins; and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet |
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