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| Subject:LAByrinth's BEES AND HONEY Begins Performances March 27 | |
| Last Edit: Official_Press_Release 05:51 pm EST 02/19/20 | |
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| LABYRINTH THEATER COMPANY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SOL PROJECT PRESENTS BEES AND HONEY A WORLD PREMIERE PLAY BY GUADALÍS DEL CARMEN SEAN CARVAJAL & MARIBEL MARTINEZ TAKE ON TWO-HANDER ABOUT LOVE & LOSS OF TWO DOMINICAN NEW YORKERS SELECTED FROM LABYRINTH’S 20TH ANNUAL BARN SERIES MARCH 27-APRIL 25 OPENING NIGHT SET FOR APRIL 6 CHERRY LANE THEATRE 38 COMMERCE STREET (New York, NY -- February 19, 2020) – LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz, Artistic Director; Aaron Roman Weiner, Associate Artistic Director) is pleased to announce Guadalís Del Carmen’s Bees and Honey as the company’s 2020 mainstage production. The world premiere, selected following a reading as part of LAB’s 2020 Barn Series, will play the Cherry Lane Theatre, where LAB is the Company in Residence, from March 27-April 25. Opening night is set for Monday, April 6. Tickets, priced at $35 during previews and $40 for all other performances, go on sale February 25 and can be purchased at www.labtheater.org/season. Inspired by the Juan Luis Guerra song “Como Abeja Al Panal,” Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen is an intimate portrait of a Dominican couple’s love and dreams in New York City. Manuel and Johaira met at a Washington Heights club and it was love at first sight. Now married, the ambitious young couple hopes to achieve their dreams together. Manuel’s entrepreneurial spirit drives to him to expand his mechanic shop, while Johaira lands a career-defining sexual assault case that could help her make partner at her law firm. As the high-profile trial takes its toll on Johaira, she also begins to question whether her husband will ever outgrow his bad boy mentality. Adding in Manuel’s ailing mother and an unforeseen tragedy, the pair is pushed to its limits as their love is tested daily. Bees and Honey was developed at LAByrinth Theater Company’s Summer LAB Intensive 2019 and subsequently received a reading as part of LAB’s 20th annual Barn Series in January 2020. Guadalís Del Carmen’s play was named to The Kilroys List 2019, one of 33 most recommended un- and underproduced new plays by women, trans, and non-binary authors. It was also selected by the 50 Playwrights Project in 2019 as one of eight top unproduced plays by Latinx playwrights in the country. The cast of Bees and Honey is: Sean Carvajal (King Lear, Halfway Bitches…, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train) as Manuel and Maribel Martinez as Johaira. Melissa Crespo directs the intimate two-hander. The performance schedule for Bees and Honey is as follows: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 7pm; Saturday at 3pm & 7pm; and Sunday at 2pm. Previews begin Friday, March 27, with opening night on Monday, April 6. Performances continue through April 25. Bees and Honey plays the Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street). Tickets, priced at $35-40, can be purchased at www.labtheater.org/season beginning February 25. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Guadalís Del Carmen (Playwright): Chicago born and bred, Guadali´s Del Carmen is an Ars Nova Resident Artist, a Black Lives Black Words Artistic Associate, and Co-Artistic Director of the Latinx Playwrights Circle. Her plays include ?Not For Sale? (Commission/World Premier UrbanTheater Company, Jeff Award New Play Nominee 2019), ?My Father’s Keeper ?(part of Steppenwolf Theatre’s The Mix, The Kilroys Honorable Mention 2019, Semi Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2018), ?Bees and Honey? (The Kilroys List 2019, 50 Playwrights Project Best Unproduced Latinx Plays 2019), Daughters of the Rebellion? (formerly titled ?Tolstoy’s Daughters?, World Premier Montclair State University 2019, The Kilroys Honorable Mention 2017, 50 Playwrights Project Best Unproduced Latin@ Plays 2017), ?A Shero’s Journey or What Anacaona and Yemaya´ Taught Me (Yale Magazine 2019, The Parsnip Ship Podcast Season 4), ?Blowout? (World Premier Aguijo´n Theater 2013), ?Sucking on Cucumbers?, ?Blue Wall of Silence?, ?Racial Science?. Her work has been part of The Sol Project’s Solfest in New York City, the Latinx Theatre Commons Carnaval of New Latinx Work in Chicago, and San Diego Repertory Theater’s Latinx New Play Festival. She has performed as an actor in Chicago, NYC, and most recently The Repertory of St. Louis in Luis Alfaro’s ?Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles?. Melissa Crespo (Director) is a NYC based director of new plays, musicals and opera. She recently directed the world premieres of form of a girl unknown by Charly Evon Simpson (Salt Lake Acting Company), and Daughters of the Rebellion (formerly titled Tolstoy’s Daughters) (Montclair State University). Her production of Native Gardens by Karen Zacarías was co-produced at Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center and Portland Center Stage. She is the Spring 2020 Artist-in-Residence at NYU Tisch and directing Maria Irene Fornes & Al Carmine’s musical Promenade. As a playwright, she co-wrote Egress with Sarah Saltwick, which will receive a world premiere at Amphibian Stage this Spring. Fellowships & Residencies: Time Warner Fellow (WP Theatre), Usual Suspect (NYTW), The Director’s Project (Drama League), Van Lier Directing Fellow (Second Stage Theatre), and the Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellow (Arena Stage). She received her MFA in Directing from The New School for Drama. http://www.melissacrespo.com Sean Carvajal (Manuel): Broadway: KING LEAR. Off-Broadway: HALFWAY BITCHES GO STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN (Atlantic Theater), Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Signature Theater; Lucille Lortel Lead Actor, Obie, Drama Desk, Clarence Derwent Awards), Seven Spots on the Sun (Sol Project/Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic Theater), Queen Latina and Her Power Posse (Cherry Lane Theater), Ghetto Babylon (59E59), Lissabon (La MaMa), and Holy Land (HERE Arts Center). Regional: Water by The Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Seven Spots on the Sun (World Premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse), Between Riverside and Crazy (Studio Theater). TV: “Crashing” (HBO). Proud member of the LAByrinth Theater Company. Maribel Martinez (Johaira) is an actor/storyteller based in New York City with Dominican and Puerto Rican roots. She has worked at the Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Most recently seen in Harold Pinter's The Lover as part of The Drama League's DirectorFest 2020. She is passionate about helping to create and develop stories in collaborative spaces, by and for people of color. Some of her favorite workshops that she’s participated in have been the journey between by Korde Arrington Tuttle at JAGFest; Don't Eat the Mangos at Sundance Theatre Lab 2019; Celeste Jennings’ Citrus at New Plays Now at Northern Stages; and Sol Project’s SolFest: Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen. LAByrinth Theater Company, founded in 1992 as The Latino Actors Base, was created to deliberately interrupt the racial status quo by giving voice to artists of color and reflecting a world where color is the norm and not the exception. LAByrinth Theater Company is a diverse, impassioned, tightly knit ensemble of multicultural artists that empowers individuals and builds community by creating member driven, incendiary, new works of theater. The Sol Project is a national theater initiative dedicated to producing the work of Latinx playwrights in New York City and beyond. Founded by Artistic Director, Jacob G. Padrón and driven by an artistic collective, The Sol Project works in partnership with leading theaters around the country to amplify Latinx voices and build artistic homes for artists of color. Through the writers we champion, The Sol Project aspires to create a bold, powerful, and kaleidoscopic body of work for the new American theater. The Sol Project launched with the world premiere of Alligator by Hilary Bettis in collaboration with New Georges, followed by the New York premieres of Seven Spots on the Sun by Martín Zimmerman (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) and Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro (The Public Theater). In the fall of 2018, The Sol Project partnered with Yale Repertory Theatre to produce the world premiere of El Huracán by Charise Castro Smith and in 2020 has partnered with Baltimore Center Stage and The Playwrights Realm to produce the rolling world premiere of Noah Diaz's Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally. The artistic collective includes: Adriana Gaviria, Rebecca Martinez, David Mendizábal, Julian Ramirez, and Laurie Woolery. Brian Herrera is the Resident Scholar. Stephanie Ybarra is the Resident Dramaturg. Joey Reyes is the Producing Assistant. Our partners include: Atlantic Theater Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Cara Mía Theatre Company, LAByrinth Theater Company, Magic Theatre, MCC Theater, New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Playwrights Realm, The Public Theater, WP Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre. www.solproject.org Bees and Honey is produced with generous support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. |
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