| three girls never learnt the way home - \written by Matthew Paul Olmos Directed by Larissa Lury and Mentored by Taylor Mac at CHERRY LANE 's OBIE Award-Winning MENTOR PROJECT - March 13- 23 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:33 pm EST 02/20/19 | |
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| CHERRY LANE THEATRE CONTINUES ITS OBIE AWARD-WINNING MENTOR PROJECT with three girls never learnt the way home Written by Matthew Paul Olmos Directed by Larissa Lury Mentored by Taylor Mac Cast Features: Jennifer Dorr White, Andrea Negrete, Toni Lachelle Pollitt, Carmen Zilles March 13 – 23, 2019 At Cherry Lane Theatre Cherry Lane Theatre (Angelina Fiordellisi, Founder; Seri Lawrence, Artistic Director) will continue its Obie Award-winning Mentor Project with three girls never learnt the way home, written by Matthew Paul Olmos. three girls is directed by Larissa Lury, mentored by Taylor Mac and will begin performances on Wednesday, March 13 and run through March 23 at the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street, NYC). Tickets are $25 ($60 for a three-show membership) and can be purchased by visiting cherrylanetheatre.org or by calling 866-811-4111. After being bussed into a newly integrated school, three friends find themselves in the center of a mysterious encounter which ignites a panic throughout the area. With elements of magical realism and visceral theatricality, three girls never learnt the way home explores what happens to children caught in the middle of complicated adult fears. The cast features Jennifer Dorr White (NY: Loyalty. TV: “The Onion”), Toni Lachelle Pollitt (NY: The Hurricane Party), Carmen Zilles (NY: Small Mouth Sounds, Scenes from a Marriage), and Andrea Negrete (NY: Independent Study, Cherry Lane’s The Opportunities of Extinction). Creative team includes set design by Susan Zeeman Rogers, costume design by Melissa Ng, lighting design by Sarah Johnston, sound design by Fan Zhang, casting by Eisenberg/Beans Casting, general management by Mott/Fischer Productions, production management by Iron Bloom Creative Productions, and Suzi Bonnot is the Production Stage Manager. After three girls never learnt the way home, Mentor Project will conclude with The Climb written by C.A. Johnson and mentored by Martyna Majok (April 3 – 13, 2019). Casting and creative team TBA. The Mentor Project, winner of an Obie Award for its dedication to helping early-career playwrights develop new work, each year partners an emerging author with a seasoned professional for a year of script work, rewrites, casting, rehearsals and a full production at Cherry Lane. Mentor Project is also the recipient of the James Kirkwood Award for American Playwrights. This marks the 21st year if the Mentor Project which has helped develop works by playwrights such as Jocelyn Bioh, Sheila Callaghan, Sam Forman, Katori Hall, Rajiv Joseph, Antoinette Nwandu, Christopher Shinn, Jen Silverman, Bridgette Wimberly, and Anne Washburn. One of the most renowned theatres in the country, Cherry Lane Theatre has produced a large succession of plays by leading writers from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter. Cherry Lane Theatre was founded by Angelina Fiordellisi in 1996, and remains devoted to developing and producing new works for the stage. Seri Lawrence is Artistic Director, Reed Ridgley is Development Manager, Sangeeta Bhagat is Director of Individual and Corporate Giving, Lex Morton is Facility Manager, and Mary Geerlof is Director of Community Engagement. Matthew Paul Olmos and Taylor Mac. Photo by Monique Carboni CHERRY LANE MENTOR PROJECT three girls never learnt the way home, written by Matthew Paul Olmos, mentored by Taylor Mac Beginning performances March 13 – 23, 2019 Performance Schedule: Monday – Friday at 7pm, Saturday at 3pm and 7pm Currently running: The Maturation of an Inconvenient Negro (or iNegro) written by Kareem M. Lucas, mentored by Craig muMs Grant Performances begin February 20 – March 2, 2019 Upcoming Mentor Project Productions: The Climb, written by C.A. Johnson, mentored by Martyna Majok Performances will take place April 3 – 13, 2019 Tickets for the Mentor Project are $25 (single show) / $60 (three- show membership.) Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting www.cherrylanetheatre.org or call OvationTix at 866 811 4111 Cherry Lane Theatre is located at 38 Commerce Street, NYC BIOGRAPHIES MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS (Playwright) is a three-time Sundance Institute Fellowship/Residency recipient, Humana Festival Commissioned Playwright, New Dramatists Resident, Center Theatre Group LA Writer, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan playwright, Echo Theater Resident, Princess Grace Awardee in Playwriting, and La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Playwright Awardee as selected by Sam Shepard. Mentored by Ruth Maleczech through Mabou Mines/SUITE; former fellow/resident at New York Theatre Workshop Baryshnikov Arts Center, Dramatists Guild, Primary Stages, INTAR; Ensemble Studio Theater lifetime member; proud Kilroys nominator. His work has been presented nationally, internationally, and is published and taught in university. Currently devising American Nationalism Project, developed through New York Theatre Workshop; a play with music, The Christmas Bridge, developed through Center Theatre Group, and a 3-play cycle concerning U.S. Presidents. Upcoming: So Go The Ghosts Of México, Part Three at UNDERMAIN THEATRE, DALLAS. WWW.MATTHEWPAULOLMOS.COM. TAYLOR MAC (Mentor) who uses “judy”, lowercase sic, not as a name but as a gender pronoun) is one of the world’s leading theater artists. A playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and producer and “Critical darling of the New York scene” (NY Magazine), judy’s work has been performed in hundreds venues including New York City’s Town Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, The Public Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, as well as London’s Hackney Empire and Barbican, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Los Angeles’s Royce Hall and Ace Theater (through the Center for the Art of Performance), Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, The Melbourne Festival (Forum Theater), Stockholm’s Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, and San Francisco’s Curran Theater and MOMA. Judy is the author of many works of theater including the soon to be produced plays, Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (premiering on Broadway in the spring of 2019, starring Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin, and directed by George C. Wolfe), Prosperous Fools, and The Fre, and the previously produced works, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Hir, The Walk across America for Mother Earth, Comparison Is Violence, The Lily’s Revenge, The Young Ladies Of, Red Tide Blooming, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam, The Face of Liberalism, Okay, Maurizio Pollini, A Crevice, and The Hot Month. Sometimes Taylor acts in other people’s plays (or co-creations). Notably: Shen Teh/Shui Ta in The Foundry Theater’s production of Good Person of Szechwan at La Mama and the Public Theater, in the City Center’s Encores production of Gone Missing, Puck/Egeus in the Classic Stage Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in the two-man vaudeville, The Last Two People on Earth opposite Mandy Patinkin and directed by Susan Stroman. Mac is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama and the recipient of multiple awards including the Kennedy Prize, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert in Theater, the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, 2 Bessies, 2 Obies, a Helpmann, and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. An alumnus of New Dramatists, judy is currently a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and the Resident playwright at the Here Arts Center. LARISSA LURY (Director) is a director, deviser, former acrobat and current assistant professor at New Mexico State University. She enjoys developing new plays and re-imagining older ones. She’s directed and workshopped plays for companies including Southern Rep, Portland Center Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Keen Company’s Keen Teens, New Georges, Ma-Yi, New Jersey Rep, McCarter Theatre’s Youth Ink!, Lake Dillon, American Southwest Theatre Company, Passage Theatre, PlayGround, Abingdon/Small Pond, Leviathan Lab, Prospect Theatre, Six Figures, and The Loft. She was an inaugural recipient of the National Directors Fellowship, a 2017 Process Space resident through LMCC, a 2016-17 New Georges Audrey Resident, and a Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre from 2008-09. She has recently been granted a commission from the Sloan Foundation to create a play in collaboration with playwright L Feldman. She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and a New Georges Affiliate Artist. She earned her BS from Northwestern University and her MFA from UC San Diego. |
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