| InProximity Theatre Company proudly announces is Directors and Casts for their 2nd Annual Project W Theatre Festival - a festival dedicated to female playwrights | |
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| INPROXIMITY THEATRE COMPANY Announces Its Cast & Directors for This Year’s PROJECT W THEATRE FESTIVAL Featuring Plays by: DARCY PARKER BRUCE, MATHILDE DRATWA, CHRISTINA GORMAN, DONNA HOKE, KARA EMILY KRANTZ and ANN MARIE SHEA June 4-9, 2018 Town Stages InProximity Theatre Company (Jolie Curtsinger, Laurie Schaefer Fenton, Co-Artistic Directors) is proud to announce the cast for this year’s second annual PROJECT W Theatre Festival which includes work by Darcy Parker Bruce, Mathilde Dratwa, Christina Gorman, Donna Hoke, Kara Emily Krantz and recently added Ann Marie Shea. PROJECT W Theatre Festival will take place June 4-9, 2018 with readings starting June 5, and will kick-off with an opening night, invite-only party on June 4, 2018 at Town Stages (5 White Street). Tickets are FREE to attend but reservations are strongly recommended. More information can be found at www.inproximitytheatre.org. PROJECT W Theatre Festival is a celebration of women in theatre from both the creative and business aspects. This muliti-day play reading festival features new plays, written, directed, produced and mananged exclusively by professional women in theatre. With over 125 submissions from female playwrights around the world, the selection committee has chosen six scripts to be presented as part of the Project W Theatre Festival. InProximity Theatre Company’s Jolie Curtsinger explains “We are so excited about the amount of amazing submissions we received. This year’s selections explore a variety of topics, but it’s pretty clear what’s on everyone’s minds: sexism, racism, assault, growing up, growing old, and Trump. These 6 stories are an unpredictable perspective, a way in, through fresh and vital voices. They are funny and moving, but most of all: important. They deserve to be heard and it’s a true privilege to present them. We are thrilled to be bringing together a team of dazzling talent, on stage and off, for this year’s Project W Festival.” Darcy Parker Bruce’s SOLDIER POET, directed by Maureen Monterubio – June 5 at 8PM Set in Aleppo, SOLDIER POET follows two American Army Rangers rescue an injured Syrian woman about to give birth. At a nearby hospital, a neonatal nurse with an unwavering sense of duty struggles to save the lives of infants as her hospital is bombed. Cast includes: Keivon Akbari, Sulekha Ebelle (Regional: A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. TV “The Blacklist”), Jo Mei (MTC’s The World of Extreme Happiness. TV: “Nicki”), Sean McIntyre (Film: Business Time), and Sade Namei (NY: Emotional Creature) Donna Hoke’s ELEVATOR GIRL directed by Bryn Boice - June 6th at 8PM Elevator Girl was never meant to be more than an urban legend, a sexual revenge fantasy created by Vanessa and her graphic illustrator boyfriend. But when the comic superhero unleashes her boyfriend’s darkest fantasies, as well as a flesh-and-blood copycat, Vanessa must stop EG in her tracks—with the truth. Cast Includes: Harrison Bryan (NY: Cherry Lane’s Patron of the Arts), Zachary Clark (NY: Promising!), Jenna Krasowski (NY: *ms. estrada), and Kim Wong (TV: “Blue Bloods”) Mathilde Dratwa’s MILK AND GALL, directed by Jen Wineman – June 7 at 8PM Raising a magnifying glass to the experience of being a new mother under Trump, Milk and Gall opens as Vera gives birth to a shape-shifting baby on election night. Over the course of one seemingly unending year, tensions mount between Vera and her second-wave feminist mother, she struggles to connect physically with her husband, and her friendship with her Syrian-American best friend Amira falters. A surreal and fragmented play mimicking the experience of sleep-deprived new parents, Milk and Gall explores the terror of the mundane: Vera is stuck in the world of diapers, breast pumps and padsicles while everyone else she knows is out marching. Cast includes: Rutanya Alda (Films: The Deer Hunter, Rocky II, Mommie Dearest ), Julie Asriyan (“The Cast Call Project”), Brian D. Coats (Broadway: Jitney), Carrie Heitman (NY: Phallacy), Irene Sofia Lucio (Broadway: Wit), and Aaron Roman Weiner (Broadway: Fool for Love. Film: The Post) Christina Gorman’s ROAN AT THE GATES, directed by Michelle Tattenbaum – June 8 at 8 PM Would you buy a sofa without consulting your partner? How about a car? Change your job? Could you commit a crime and say nothing? And could you still love your partner if she followed her conscience but kept you in the dark? Nat is an outspoken civil rights attorney. Roan, the quiet one, is an NSA Analyst who isn’t even allowed to tell her wife the location of her next business trip. Roan at the Gates is a topical and thought-provoking new play, a long-time couple confronts questions about their marriage they never thought to ask as their personal relationship collides with national security. Cast includes: Billy Griffin Jr. (TV “Black Mirror”), Katie Flahive (TV: “Nurse Jackie”), and Lynnette R. Freeman (Regional: Raisin in The Sun, Clybourne Park) Added production: Ann Marie Shea’s THE MUSE IN AUTUMN, directed by Terry Berliner - June 9th at 2pm Is there a difference between sexual predation and a “May-December” romance? In her youth, Gwyneth was a prolific writer, but now her life is confined to a remote country retreat caring for her aged husband, famous poet Marshall Rivers, as he struggles with paralysis and aphasia. The unexpected arrival of two strangers –an ambitious young scholar, Larry, and a mysterious girl, Maggie – lead to revelation of Rivers’ life-long sexual predation, and subsequent plagiarism. Gwyneth, finally finding her “voice,” devises a subtle revenge on helpless husband as he is forced to live with the words of his silenced student chasing him to his grave. Cast includes: Zach Clark (NY: Promising!), Emilee Dupré (Broadway: Chaplin), Ana Isabel (NY: Fade, Songs for the Disappear), Joel Rooks (Broadway: Fish in the Dark, The Royal Family), and Eliza Ventura (Film: The Other Side of Joy) Kara Emily Krantz’s YOU, ME, AND ENNUI, directed by Diana Canterbury - June 9 at 8PM When 28-year-old Samantha wakes up with a hangover on 75-year-old Theodore's couch, the only logical way to navigate the situation is to pose as his new caretaker. Through the process of discovering why she is in his house, Sam and Teddy form a quirky yet wonderful bond. In You, Me, and Ennui, sometimes people stumble into your life... and help heal you. Cast includes: Ben Bartolone, Samantha Debicki (NY: Hysterical), Yvette Ganier (Broadway: The Miracle Worker, King Hedley II), Kasey McNulty MacDonald, and Joel Rooks (Broadway: Fish in the Dark) PROJECT W Theatre Festival June 4-9, 2018 at 8 pm Full schedule: June 4, 2018 at 7:30pm – Project W Opening Night Party (Invite Only) June 5 at 8PM SOLDIER POET, written by Darcy Parker Bruce, directed by Maureen Monterubio June 6 at 8PM ELEVATOR GIRL, written by Donna Hoke, directed by Bryn Boice June 7 at 8PM MILK AND GALL, written by Mathilde Dratwa, directed by Jen Wineman June 8 at 8PM ROAN AT THE GATES, written by Christina Gorman, directed by Michelle Tattenbaum June 9 at 2PM THE MUSE IN AUTUMN, written by Ann Marie Shea, directed by Terry Berliner June 9 at 8PM YOU, ME, AND ENNUI, written by Kara Emily Krantz, directed by Diana Canterbury Town Stages 5 White Street, New York, NY 10013 www.townstages.com I 212.634.7690 Tickets are FREE to attend but reservations are strongly recommended More information can be found www.inproximitytheatre.org Space for this event was sponsored in part by Sokoloff Arts Meet the Playwrights: DARCY PARKER BRUCE (Playwright SOLDIER POET) holds an MFA in Playwriting from Smith College and was a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her play Soldier Poet won the 2018 ATHE award, and her play Always Plenty Of Light At The Starlight All Night Diner will receive its world premiere with Know Theatre of Cincinnati in early 2019. She has been published through Applause/ Hal Leonard’s Best American Short Play series. She is currently teaching playwriting at Eastern Connecticut State University. MATHILDE DRATWA (Playwright MILK AND GALL) is a member of Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artists Write initiative and of New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Program, a former co-leader of the FilmShop collective and a two-time Pulitzer Center Grant recipient. Her theater credits include Milk and Gall (Great Plains Theater Conference, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist) and Escape from Garden Grove (Last Frontier Theater Conference, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition Finalist). She wrote and directed the narrative short films Peta Pan (starring Independent Spirit Award Nominee Nisreen Faour) and Escape From Garden Grove (Sundance Channel Shorts Contest Finalist), as well as the web series Almost Anonymous (best original concept, NYC WebFest). A seasoned educator, Mathilde is a Master Teaching Artist for Roundabout Theatre Company, the New Victory, the Shakespeare Society and the School of The New York Times. She is the co-founder of Moms-in-Film (SXSW Community Grant, Wee Wagon Project, Free childcare at SXSW and Sundance). Mathilde holds a masters from Drama Centre London as well as a BA and MA from Cambridge University. CHRISTINA GORMAN (playwright ROAN AT THE GATES) Her plays have been produced and/or developed at The Public Theater, Alley Theatre, American Blues Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Hangar Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Prospect Theatre Company, Samuel French Short Play Festival, New Harmony Project, Troy Foundry Theatre, NYC’s Summer Play Festival, Stageworks/Hudson, Playwrights Foundation, Lark Play Development Center, Stella Adler Studios, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Luna Stage, |the claque|, Theatre Artists Studio, and the University of Notre Dame. Christina is an inaugural member of The Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. She is a former New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellow, Stella Adler Studios Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence, and Women’s Project Playwright Lab member. She is an Artistic Affiliate at American Blues Theater. She is published by Samuel French. christinagormanplaywright.com DONNA HOKE (Playwright ELEVATOR GIRL) Resident playwright at Road Less Traveled Productions, Donna’s work has been seen in 46 states and on five continents. Plays include The Couple Next Door (Princess Grace semi-finalist), Safe (winner of the Todd McNerney, Naatak, and Great Gay Play and Musical Contests), Brilliant Works Of Art (2016 Kilroys List), Elevator Girl (2017 O’Neill finalist), and Teach (2018 O'Neill semifinalist, current Ashland/Capital Rep/Headwaters semifinalist); she has also been nominated for both the Primus and Blackburn Prizes. Donna is also a New York Times-published crossword puzzle constructor; author of Neko and the Twiggets, a children's book; and founder/co-curator of BUA Takes 10: GLBT Short Stories. She has received an Individual Artist Award from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop Hearts Of Stone, as well as an Artie Award for Outstanding New Play (Seeds). For three consecutive years, she was named Buffalo's Best Writer by Artvoice—the only woman to ever receive the designation. Donna serves on the Dramatists Guild Council and also as Western New York regional representative. In addition, she is a blogger, and moderator of the 11,000+-member Official Playwrights of Facebook. Recent speaking engagements include Citywrights, Kenyon Playwrights Conference, the Dramatists Guild National Conference, Chicago Dramatists, the Austin Film Festival, and a live Dramatists Guild webinar. Her commentary has been seen on #2amt, howlround, The Dramatist, the Official Playwrights of Facebook, Workshopping the New Play (Applause, 2017), and at donnahoke.com. KARA EMILY KRANTZ (Playwright YOU, ME, AND ENNUI) is a poet, photographer, and playwright from Sturbridge, Massachusetts. With a Masters in Counseling, a decade as a teacher, and sixteen years in community theater as an actress, director, and playwright, she is drawn to the broken pieces - the places of our deepest suffering, beauty, meaning, whimsy, and joy. You, Me, and Ennui is her third of four full-length plays: she self-produced her first comedy, All Bark, No Bite, in 2015 (now published with Rebel Belle Publishing), penned All For the Love of You in 2016, and her thesis project, inValidated will be presented at the end of June as she graduates with her MFA in Writing for Stage & Screen from New Hampshire Institute of Art, where she trained under Buzz McLaughlin (her mentor for this piece). She also recently placed as a winner in the StoryPros International Screenplay Award for her first screenplay, Grace Note. ANN MARIE SHEA’s (plays Playwright THE MUSE IN AUTUMN) have been produced at Torrent Theatre (NYC) Southeastern Regional Technical High School, Boston Theatre Marathon, Shakespeare and Company, Worcester Children’s Theatre, Boston Actors’ Theatre, Redfeather Theatre, Turtle Lane Theatre, Newburyport’s Firehouse Center for the Arts, and at Barrington Stage’s “10 x 10” festivals. She performs her one-woman play, Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins, at venues throughout New England. Both as writer and performer, she has participated in the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK. She has acted at Stoneham Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Redfeather Theatre, Apollinaire Theatre, and Boston’s Huntington Theatre. In the film, Abe and Phil’s Last Poker Game, she plays the role of Martin Landau’s wife. A member of Dramatists Guild, AEA and SAG-AFTRA, she has earned an M.A. (Drama) from Catholic University and a Ph.D. (Educational Theatre) from New York University. The Venue: TOWN STAGES (Robin Sokoloff, Executive Director) is located in the heart of Tribeca. TOWN is New York’s premier venue to celebrate, collaborate and put on a show. A new female-driven cultural arts institution, Town Stages is a state-of-the-art, flexible performance and event space that can support the entire lifecycle of New York’s hallmark industries. With a stunning 9,000 square foot storefront facility, TOWN provides world-class cultural experiences and opportunities for all: from civic to corporate, tech to theater. With a Mainstage, a Cabaret Lounge, a Gallery, and a multi-use event space with a capacity of 225, Town Stages offers much-needed space and production resources for businesses, arts organizations, and families. TOWN boasts ticketed performances and curated community programing, from performance art to dance to theatre, and is also available for fashion shows, film shoots, weddings, and beyond. For more information, visit www.townstages.com. SOKOLOFF ARTS (501c3) is an emerging cultural institution providing inspired space, prospective, and opportunity for cutting edge events in all sectors of The Arts, Corporate, Civic, and Cultural life in New York City. Led by a team of women from diverse backgrounds and artistic expressions, Sokoloff Arts works to provide viable and safe space to congregate, strives to promote cross-cultural community engagement, and blends the arts and business to create sustainable solutions to social and financial inequalities. The organization assists young creators with not only space, but resource generation, production, and community. To address the overwhelming demand for hi-tech, flexible, and affordable performance and event space in New York City, Sokoloff Arts has just opened Town Stages in Tribeca. To learn more, visit sokoloffarts.org. For more information about InProximity or Project W Theatre Festival please visit www.inproximitytheatre.org |
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