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| World Premiere of The Convent by Jessica Dickey, at A.R.T./New York Theatres, January 16-February 17 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 10:47 am EDT 09/05/18 | |
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| Weathervane Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater present the World Premiere of THE CONVENT By Jessica Dickey (The Amish Project, Charles Ives Take Me Home) Directed by Daniel Talbott Performances January 16-February 17, 2019 at A.R.T./New York Theatres Opening Night January 24, 2019 Weathervane Productions (Wendy vanden Heuvel, Producer), Rising Phoenix Repertory (Daniel Talbott, Artistic Director; Addie Johnson Talbott, Artistic Associate), in association with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater are pleased to present the World Premiere of The Convent, a new play by critically acclaimed playwright Jessica Dickey. The production, directed by Daniel Talbott, will begin performances on January 16, 2019 with an opening night scheduled for January 24, 2019. The Convent will run through February 17, 2019 at the Mezzanine Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres (502 West 53rd Street). Dickey has been hailed as “a playwright to watch” by The New York Times. Her one-woman show, The Amish Project, went from the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival to a critically heralded production at Rattlestick in 2009, and has since been produced all across the US and all over the world. She was also acclaimed for Charles Ives Take Me Home, produced in 2013 by Rattlestick. In Dickey’s new play, a group of women go on a retreat to live like nuns in the Middle Ages and are baptized with 80s pop, female mysticism, hallucinogens and sex. The Convent is a toothy dark comedy about desire, devotion and the mystery of intrinsic divinity. The production features scenic design by Raul Abrego, costume design by Tristan Raines, lighting design by Joel Moritz, sound design by Daniel Melnick, and projection design by Katherine Freer. Kendra Bator serves as executive producer. General manager is Snug Harbor Productions, Inc. (Steven Chaikelson). Casting and ticket information will be announced in coming weeks. BIOGRAPHIES Jessica Dickey (Playwright) is an award-winning American playwright and actor most recently known for her play The Rembrandt (winner of the prestigious Stavis Award), which had a sold-out run at Steppenwolf Theatre Company starring the beloved John Mahoney. Jessie is currently commissioned by Manhattan Theater Club and the Sloan Foundation to write a play about the Pap Smear (gentlemen, please Google). She is also currently writing a play about the sex lives of senior citizens, commissioned by ShadowCatcher; and she is developing a television show for Tom McCarthy’s company and Paramount TV. The daughter of a gym teacher and a social worker, Jessie’s writing often draws from her rural Pennsylvania roots, including her debut (and most produced) play The Amish Project, which opened Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater to great acclaim from audience and critics alike (Helen Hayes Award, Barrymore Award, CAPPIE Award for Best Play, amongst others). The Amish Project continues to be produced around the country and the world, including a recent run at the prestigious Guthrie Theater, and was listed by nytheatre.com as a play that should have been nominated for a Pulitzer. Jessie’s next play, Charles Ives Take Me Home, premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, for which the playwright was hailed as “a talent to watch” by Charles Isherwood, The New York Times. Charles Ives Take Me Home went on to be produced at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Strawdog in Chicago, and Curious Theatre Company in Denver (among others). Jessica’s play about Civil War re-enactors, Row After Row, had its official world premiere with the Women’s Project in January 2014 at New York City Center, followed by several regional productions, including an Ovation Award nomination for Best Play after its Los Angeles run at Echo Theatre Company. Jessie is very proud to be a member of New Dramatists. Daniel Talbott (Director) is a writer, director, actor, and a Lucille Lortel and Obie Award-winning producer. He is on the lit team of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and is the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep. His plays include Nick and Zoe (Arctic Group/IRT), Slipping (Rattlestick, The Side Project), Yosemite (Rattlestick), Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait (Rattlestick/piece by piece, Encore), What Happened When (Rattlestick, Rising Phoenix Rep/HERE), Someone Brought Me (Quince Productions), Mike and Seth (Quince, Encore, The Side Project), Extraordinary Things (RPR), and Gray (Your Name Here). Recent directing work includes Ugly Little Sister (NYU), First Born (The Actors Studio), Thieves (Weathervane/RPR/ Rattlestick), F**king Immaculate (RPR), A Fable (Rattlestick), Gin Baby (IRT), Scarcity (Rattlestick/Hill Town Plays), Lake Water (Neighborhood Productions), Eightythree Down (Hard Sparks), Much Ado About Nothing (Boomerang), and Squealer (Lesser America). He is currently co-writing a new play with Lucy Thurber titled The Land of Ghosts and was recently commissioned by Echo Theater Company for their 2020 season. He’s directing the world premiere of Jessica Dickey’s The Convent Off Broadway in 2019, and is creating, co-writing and directing the Confession Project. His feature film What We See is in production with 4est Films, he’s a writer for OZZ with Blue Ribbon Content/Warner Bros., and is in development with Jim Parsons’ company That’s Wonderful Productions for a feature, Yosemite. He was a writer for Weinstein Company and Spike TV on The Mist, based on the Stephen King novella, and his hour-long drama pilot Summer was optioned and in development with Sonar and Killer Films. He received a 2011 Theater Hall of Fame Fellowship and was also named one of the 15 People of the Year by nytheatre.com. He is a graduate of Juilliard, a proud member of Echo Theater Company, and a member of the Actors Studio. Rising Phoenix Repertory (Producer). Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award, Caffe Cino Fellowship, and New York Innovative Theatre Award, Rising Phoenix Repertory was founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Daniel Talbott, and produces primarily new plays – both in the Indie Theatre and Off-Broadway – in traditional spaces and site-specifically around New York City and regionally. Recent productions include Thieves (produced with Weathervane), A Fable (produced with piece by piece productions and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), the Lucille Lortel Award-winning Off-Broadway run of All the Rage (produced with piece by piece and The Barrow Group), 3C (produced with piece by piece and Rattlestick), Elective Affinities (produced site-specifically with piece by piece and Soho Rep), Slipping (produced with piece by piece and Rattlestick), and Too Much Memory (also with piece by piece), which transferred to the New York Theatre Workshop’s Fourth Street Theatre after winning the FringeNYC award for Outstanding Play in 2008. Rising Phoenix Repertory produces an ongoing series called Cino Nights, inspired by Joe Cino and his Caffe Cino – one of the original birthplaces of Off-Off-Broadway theatre – for which the company has commissioned over twenty playwrights to write new, full-length plays, which are fully produced site-specifically on a shoestring budget. Two volumes of Cino Nights plays have been published by The New York Theatre Experience, and the company publishes an ongoing theater magazine called Caffe Cino (edited by Talbott and Steve McMahon), available in bookstores and online. Rising Phoenix Rep serves as a home base for a company of theatre professionals that encourages an open exchange of work and ideas within the greater theatre community. Weathervane Productions (Producer).Created in 2014 by Wendy vanden Heuvel, Weathervane Productions is dedicated to nurturing and supporting playwrights and their work from development to production, and it also supports and develops devised and collaborative theater. vanden Heuvel is also the artistic director of piece by piece productions, a not for profit organization whose productions have included the Kilbanes’ Weightless, co-produced with Z Space, Medea directed by Deborah Warner with Fiona Shaw on Broadway (associate producer), The Tricky Part (2004 Obie Award and two Drama Desk nominations including Best Play), All The Rage (Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Solo Show 2013) by Martin Moran, and several productions with Rising Phoenix Repertory and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Since 2010, piece by piece has been a producer on The Lake Lucille Chekhov Project (Cherry Orchard, Ivanov, Seagull), which was created by Brian Mertes and Melissa Kievmann, and in winter 2013 co-produced Lee Breuer’s La Divina Caricatura in association with St. Ann’s Warehouse, La MaMa ETC, Mabou Mines, and Dovetail Productions, as well as 100 Days, conceived by the indie rock couple The Bengsons, in association with Z Space. Weathervane is developing a new play by Lucy Thurber which will be produced in San Francisco in 2019. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Founded in 1994 by Gary Bonasorte and David van Asselt, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is a multi-award-winning organization which has developed and produced over 100 World Premieres in the past 23 seasons. The mission of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is to present diverse, challenging and provocative plays that might not otherwise be produced and to foster the future voices of the American theater. We produce theater to inspire empathy and provoke conversations in response to the complexities of our culture. The company has launched the careers of many writers who are now household names, including Annie Baker (The Aliens), Sheila Callaghan (Everything You Touch), Michael John Garces (Acts of Mercy), Samuel D. Hunter (The Few), Martyna Majok (Ironbound), Diana Oh (mylingerieplay), Adam Rapp (Hallway Trilogy), and Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays). The A.R.T./New York Theatresare a project of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York), which provide state-of-the-art, accessible venues at subsidized rental rates, plus free access to top-line technical equipment, so that the city’s small and emerging theatre companies can continue to experiment, grow, and produce new works. Founded in 1972, A.R.T./New York is the leading service and advocacy organization for New York City’s 400+ nonprofit theatres, with a mission to assist member theatres in managing their companies effectively so that they may realize their rich artistic visions and serve their diverse audiences well. We accomplish this through a comprehensive roster of real estate, financial, educational, and community-building programs, as well as research, advocacy, and field-wide initiatives that seek to improve the long-term health and sustainability of the industry. Over the years, A.R.T./New York has received numerous honors, including an Obie Award, an Innovative Theatre Award, a New York City Mayor’s Award for Arts & Culture, and a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre. For more information, please visit www.art-newyork.org. |
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