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| DUST Opens Tonight at NYTW Fourth Street Theatre | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:11 am EDT 09/05/19 | |
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| DUST Written and Performed by Milly Thomas Directed by Sara Joyce Opens Tonight At New York Theatre Workshop’s Fourth Street Theatre Dust, the award-winning new play written and performed by Milly Thomas and directed by Sara Joyce, opens tonight, Thursday, September 5, at New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door at NYTW in the Fourth Street Theatre (79 East 4th Street). The limited run will end September 29. Tickets can be purchased online at nytw.org, by phone at 212-460-5475, or in person the New York Theatre Workshop box office. ‘I’ve been dead for three days.’ A woman. A suicide. A choice. A lie. A truth. An ending. Of sorts. Life, Alice thinks, isn’t worth living. So she kills herself. But she’s stuck. A fly on the wall. Forced to watch the aftermath of her suicide and its ripple effect on her family and friends, Alice quickly learns that death changes people. And discovers that death isn’t the change she hoped for. Following three award-winning, sell-out runs across the UK and London’s West End, Dust by Milly Thomas, directed by Sara Joyce, transfers to Next Door at NYTW for a limited run. Dust features design by Anna Reid, lighting design by Jack Weir, and sound design by Max Perryment. Dust is produced by Ceri Lothian & Ramin Sabi for DEM Productions MILLY THOMAS (Writer and Performer) is an actor and writer, living in London. She began writing when she graduated in 2014 from the BA Acting at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Milly’s first full-length play ‘A First World Problem’ opened at Theatre503 in July 2014 to critical acclaim. She was then commissioned by The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to write ‘Piggies’ in 2015 . Her play ‘Clickbait’ opened the 2016 spring season at Theatre503 and played to sold-out audiences and an extended run. Her plays ‘Brutal Cessation’ and ‘Dust’ ran at The Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, with Milly receiving the Stage Edinburgh Award for her performance in ‘Dust’. ‘Brutal Cessation’ transferred to Theatre503 in November 2017 & ‘Dust' transferred to Soho Theatre in 2018 and then to the West End at Trafalgar Studios in 2018. She is a member of both the Young Writers’ Lab 2015 and Writer’s Lab Alumni 2017 & 2018 at Soho Theatre. She has taken part in The Royal Court Writers’ Group 2016, and of ‘Headstart’ – a group comprising of ten playwrights assembled by Headlong Theatre Company and Blacklisted Films. She has been selected for HighTide First Commissions in 2017. For television Milly has taken part in writers’ rooms for Pure Grass Films, Balloon Entertainment and Brown Eyed Boy and completed the 2016 Channel 4 Screenwriting Course. Her television credits include original BBC3 series ‘Clique’ and ‘River City’ for BBC Scotland. She is currently under option with BBC Wales, Eleventh Hour Films & New Pictures. She is developing her play ‘Dust’ for television with Merman Productions. She is represented by United Agents for acting and writing in the UK and by WME for writing in the US. She is managed in the US by Grandview Management for Acting and Writing. Her acting credits include 'The Crown' (Netflix/Leftbank Pictures) 'Sex Education’ (Netflix/Eleven Films); ‘Dust' (Trafalgar Studios/Soho Theatre/Underbelly - Edinburgh); ‘Enterprice' (BBC3); 'The Feed' (Amazon/Studio Lambert); ‘Quacks' (BBC2); 'Downton Abbey' (ITV); 'X Company' (Temple Street Productions/CBC); 'Dry Land' (Jermyn Street Theatre); 'And Then I Was French' (Dog Eared Films); 'Woman in Gold' (The Weinstein Company/BBC Films). SARA JOYCE (Director) most recently directed Armadillo by Sarah Kosar (Yard Theatre), Dust by Milly Thomas (Soho Theatre, Trafalgar Studios), Hunch by Kate Kennedy (Assembly, Edinburgh), Best Life by Tamar Broadbent (Underbelly, Edinburgh). Other directing credits include Scar Test by Hannah Khalil (Soho Theatre), The Win Bin by Kate Kennedy (Old Red Lion), Three Short Beckett Plays by Samuel Beckett (Old Red Lion). Sara is an Associate Artist with Pan Pan Theatre Company. She was a Director with Old Vic 12, Resident Director at Almeida Theatre and Resident Assistant Director at Soho Theatre. She has trained and worked with Richard Eyre, Dominic Dromgoole, Claire van Kampen, Rupert Goold, Mark Rylance. Sara was shortlisted for the KSF Emerging Artist’s Award, is a recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprises and received an Off West End nomination for Best Director. She studied Drama and Theatre at Trinity College, Dublin and trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq. ANNA REID (Designer) is a set and costume designer based in London and a graduate of Wimbledon College of Art. Design credits include: Cash Cow, Paradise, The Hoes (Hampstead Theatre),The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton's Music Hall), Our Country's Good, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Tobacco Factory Theatre), Soft Animals, Fury (Soho Theatre) Twelfth Night, Collective Rage, Dear Brutus, The Cardinal and School Play (Southwark Playhouse), Dust, Rasheeda Speaking (Trafalgar Studios), Schism (Park Theatre), Grotty (The Bunker), Tiny Dynamite (Old Red Lion), Rattle Snake (Live Theatre Newcastle, York Theatre Royal, Soho Theatre), The Kitchen Sink and Jumpers for Goalposts (The Oldham Coliseum), Sex Worker's Opera (set only, National Tour and Ovalhouse Theatre), I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Finborough Theatre), Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre), Arthur's World (The Bush Theatre), Hippolytos (Victoria and Albert Museum), Hamlet (The Riverside Studios). JACK WEIR (Lighting Designer) is a four-time Off West End nominee for best lighting design and a What’sOnStage Award nominated lighting designer who works across a broad range of theatre and opera, including productions with Trafalgar Studios, Arcola Theatre, and Leicester Curve. He has also won the LIT award for his design on Judy! at the Arts Theatre and the ETC Award in 2014. He is Associate Lighting Designer at Above the Stag Theatre, where he has lit many shows including the Offie winning Grindr The Opera, as well as Romance Romance, Title of Show, Maurice, Beautiful Thing and Holding The Man, among many others. Credits include: Falcon’s Malteaser (Vaults); Honk! (UK Tour); Maria Studara (Opera Up Close); The WhatsOnStage Awards 2018 & 2019 (Prince of Wales Theatre); Boots (The Bunker Theatre); The Wizard of Oz (Blackpool Opera House),The Funeral Director (Southwark Playhouse & ETT UK Tour), Rain Man (UK tour), The Boys in the Band (Vaudeville Theatre), Dust (Edinburgh Festival, Soho Theatre and Trafalgar Studios), Rothschild & Sons (ParkTheatre), George’s Marvellous Medicine (Leicester Curve/RoseTheatre/UK tour), Judy! (Arts Theatre), Assata Taught Me (Gate Theatre), The Plague (Arcola Theatre), Out Of Order (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre/UK tour), Pray So Hard For You (Finborough Theatre), Laronde (Bunker Theatre), Four Play (Theatre503), Summer In London (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Pyar Actually (Watford Palace/tour), Talk Radio (Old Red Lion Theatre) and West Side Story (Bishopsgate Institute) For more please visit; www.weirdlighting.co.uk MAX PERRYMENT (Sound Designer) is a London, U.K. based Composer and Sound Designer. He has an M.A. in Electroacoustic Composition from City University. Theatre includes: Shipwreck (Almeida Theatre), The Convert (The Young Vic), A Guide For The Homesick (Trafalgar Studio 2), The Sweet Science of Bruising (Wilton's Music Hall and Southwark Playhouse), Dust (Trafalgar Studio 2, Soho Theatre), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Park Theatre) Off West End Award Nomination, Utility (Orange Tree Theatre), Rasheeda Speaking (Trafalgar Studio 2), Twilight Los Angeles 1992 (The Gate) Off West End Award Nomination, The Tide (Young Vic, YV Taking Part), Romeo and Juliet (Orange Tree Theatre), Dear Brutus (Southwark Playhouse), Hair (Wimbledon Theatre, UK tour, The Vaults and The Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester), Broken Dreams (Kestral Theatre: HMP Springhill and Royal Court), Start Swimming (Young Vic and Summerhall, Edinburgh), Replay (Soho Theatre, Pleasance Edinburgh, 59E59 New York), Goodbear (Soho Theatre and Pleasance Edinburgh), Landmines (The BRIT School, Ovalhouse and Otherplace Brighton), Skin of the Teeth (The Vaults, and Ophelia Theatre, New York), START devised by Young People Lyric Theatre (Lyric Theatre), Nest (Arts Depot, Brighton Fringe and National Tour), The Frontline (Arts Educational Schools London), Blood and Water (Kestral Theatre: HMP Springhill and Royal Court), R and D (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs), Last of the Boys (Southwark Playhouse), Reimagining Uncle Vanya (Almeida Theatre), Four Play (Theatre503), Clickbait (Theatre503), And Then Come the Nightjars (Theatre503, Bristol Old Vic and National Tour) Off West End Award Nomination, Sense of an Ending (Theatre503). Max has composed music for television commercials for clients including: Nokia, Cardhu, London and Partners, BUPA, Johnnie Walker, Land Rover, The Singleton, Godiva, The Co-op, Raffles, Volvo, Thomson’s Holidays, Amazon, Magnet Kitchens, GQ, Booking.com, Liverpool One, Continental, Berkley Homes, Jacamo, Barclay’s, Simply Be, Neville Johnson and Zoopla. He has been working closely with Kestrel Theatre for two years, who work in prisons. Max has been resident composer for the contemporary dance company Made By Katie Green for eight years. He is composer for theatre company Parrot {in the} Tank and comedy duo Goodbear, and a founding member of the band Escapists. CERI LOTHIAN and RAMIN SABI for DEM PRODUCTIONS (Producer). D.E.M Productions was formed in 2014. Productions include: SUE TOWNSEND’S THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 ¾ - THE MUSICAL (Ambassadors); DUST (Trafalgar Studios); the European Premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s WORKING; the first major UK revival of SPRING AWAKENING (2019 WhatsonStage Award for Best Regional Production); the world premieres of KARAGULA, FOUR PLAY and SENSE OF AN ENDING and six other play revivals. DEM also acts as general managers and financial consultants, with clients including Sadler’s Wells and Belarus Free Theatre. www.demproductions.co.uk Ceri Lothian was previously Assistant Producer at Theatre503, where credits include World Premieres of AND THEN COME THE NIGHTJARS by Bea Roberts (National Tour 2016), and ROTTERDAM by Jon Brittain (Olivier Award Winner 2017). Outside of D.E.M she is Producer for theatre company Worst Absurd (@WorstAbsurd), and has also produced new comedy writing and scratch nights around London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ramin Sabi is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre and film producer. West End shows include: GYPSY starring Imelda Staunton (Savoy Theatre, 4 Olivier Awards); COMPANY (Gielgud); ANNIE (Piccadilly, National Tours and Toronto); 1984 (Playhouse Theatre); 9 TO 5 (Savoy Theatre and UK Tour); SHOW BOAT (New London Theatre, Olivier nominee); HEISENBERG (Wyndham’s Theatre) and THE WILD PARTY (The Other Palace). Broadway shows include: THE FERRYMAN (Jacobs) and 1984 (Hudson). Films include: BUTTERFLY KISSES (Berlin Crystal Bear); GYPSY: LIVE FROM THE SAVOY (BBC/PBS) and shorts THE WYRD and WREN BOYS (BAFTA nominee). |
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