| All for One Theater presents Jack Was Kind, written & performed by Tracy Thorne, live on Zoom September 16-October 10 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:11 am EDT 08/28/20 | |
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| JACK WAS KIND Written & performed by Tracy Thorne Directed by Nicholas A. Cotz Performed live on Zoom four times a week for a limited audience September 16-October 10 All For One Theater (Michael Wolk, Founder & Artistic Director; Nicholas A. Cotz, Executive & Producing Director), the 10-year-old company dedicated to producing extraordinary solo theater, is pleased to present the World Premiere of Jack Was Kind, a new play written and performed by Tracy Thorne (We Are Here; Good Children), and directed by Nicholas A. Cotz (My Name is Gideon; rogerandtom). Jami Floyd (New York Public Radio's All Things Considered) serves as Consulting Producer. The production will be presented live on Zoom, four times a week, Wednesday-Saturday from September 16 through October 10 for limited audiences. "How could you just sit there?" For 10 years, that's what they've asked Jack's wife. Well, now she's talking. Tracy Thorne Thorne originally began writing the play in January 2019, performing it for friends in their living rooms. Thorne's intimate, confessional play examines long-seated issues of privilege and complicity at the core of America, as well as our current explosive political moment. Jack Was Kind gives an imagined and painfully human backstory to an actual American event that will affect the country for an entire generation, at least. Each performance of the 70-minute play will be followed by a discussion with Thorne and a special guest, arranged in consultation with national affairs commentator Jami Floyd, to spotlight issues of complicity in American power structures. Jack Was Kind will be presented Wednesdays at 8:00 pm, Thursdays at 3:00 pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm. Tickets ($5-$50) are available at EventBrite. BIOGRAPHIES Tracy Thorne (Playwright/Performer). Tracy Thorne's play, We Are Here, received its world premiere at New York Stage and Film and was also produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival. We Are Here was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and is published by Dramatists Play Service. Tracy's play, Good Children, was developed and workshopped at Page 73 and New Georges, then subsequently produced at Connecticut Repertory Theatre. The Nature of Things was developed and workshopped at SohoRep and nominated for the Kilroys list. Another play, True Love, was a finalist for both Leah Ryan's FEWW and the Susan Glaspell Award and also a nominee for the Kilroys list. Other plays include Will and Testament, A Ridiculous Trade, Quick Bright Things and Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?, which had an awesome workshop at Rattlestick recently. Tracy's plays have received workshops and/or readings at various American theatres-Manhattan Class Company, The Cherry Lane, New York Stage & Film, Florida Stage, The Lark, The Dramatists Guild and WP Theater - to name a few. Tracy is a recipient of the Elizabeth George commission from South Coast Rep and has been a member of the SohoRep Writer/Director Lab, Page 73's Interstate 73 writers group and, also, a playwriting fellow at The Lark. She's written a screenplay called Natural History and two TV pilots, "Lucy Lives Uptown" and "Iris." Tracy worked as an actor in New York and London, collaborating with directors such as Matthew Warchus, Phyllida Lloyd, Anna Deavere Smith and Tony Kushner. So too, she's appeared in some movies and on TV. Tracy studied History at Smith College and is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She lives in Harlem USA with her family. Nicholas A. Cotz (Director) has produced and directed in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. Favorite directing projects include Gideon Irving's My Name is Gideon at The Brick in Williamsburg, and the NY Times Critic's Pick rogerandtom at HERE with Personal Space Theatrics. Recent producing credits with AFO include: Irving's Songs, Space Travel, and Everything in Between at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning ThreeWeeks Editors' Award; Irving's I'm Probably Going to Die Eventually at Rattlestick; the NY Times Critic's Pick The Brobot Johnson Experience, by Darian Dauchan (co-produced with The Bushwick Starr); the NY Times Critic's Pick Open, by Crystal Skillman; and Lizzie Vieh's Monsoon Season, both at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and in NYC at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Cotz holds an MFA in directing from Brooklyn College and was a Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellow. nicholascotz.com Jami Floyd (Consulting Producer) is the host of WNYC's "All Things Considered," and the station's Legal Editor. In a journalism career that spans two decades, Jami has worked on everything from breaking news, to exclusive interviews, to long-form investigations. She spent nearly a decade at ABC News, serving in various capacities, including Law & Justice Correspondent. Over the years, Jami has appeared as an analyst on many news outlets including CNN, Fox News, NBC, MSNBC, and PBS. She has won numerous awards and, in 2015, she was named a Public Scholar by the New York Council for the Humanities, for a two-year term. Jami has had countless in-depth conversations with news makers, most memorably Saheem Ali, Alec Baldwin, Don Cheadle, Michael Gaston, Myriam Hyman, Whoopi Goldberg, Estelle Parsons, Rob Reiner, Ving Rhames and the late John Singleton. All For One Theater believes in seeking the universal in the individual. Since its founding ten years ago by Artistic Director Michael Wolk, AFO remains dedicated to developing and producing extraordinary solo theater and supporting careers for solo artists. AFO productions have played Off-Broadway at numerous theaters, including The Cherry Lane Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Theatre Row, Wild Project, 59E59, The Brick, The Bushwick Starr, and internationally at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Recent productions include My Name is Gideon: I'm Probably Going to Die, Eventually, the Edinburgh Fringe sold-out hit with two acclaimed Off-Broadway runs at Rattlestick and The Brick; 2017 Artist in Residence Darian Dauchan's The Brobot Johnson Experience; the world premiere of Crystal Skillman's Open at The Tank; and the world premiere of Lizzie Vieh's Monsoon Season at Rattlestick. In 2016, AFO created the Solo Collective (SoCo) to nurture and develop some of the brightest writing, performing, and directing talent in the solo world, providing opportunities to workshop projects in all stages of development. AFO's two-year Artist In Residence (AIR) program supports a single artist with one big idea, developing their work with invited audiences and culminating in the staging of a new full-length play. Past Artists In Residence include Bill Bowers, Darian Dauchan, Lizzie Vieh, and current Artist in Residence, Kareem Lucas. Follow us @afotheater. More information at afo.nyc. |
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