Ars Nova Presents 'PLAYLIST' For Five Performances 1/22-1/25

Ars Nova (Jason Eagan, Artistic Director; Jon Steingart & Jenny Wiener Steingart, Executive Producers) will present Playlist for five performances only January 22nd - 25th. All tickets are only $15 and can be purchased at www.arsnovanyc.com.

Ars Nova's Play Group puts the theater on party shuffle with song-inspired short plays that'll be stuck in your head for weeks. New York's hottest emerging playwrights join forces with a killer live band to shatter your memories of lame junior high mixes! Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Evan Cabnet, Dylan Dawson, Liz Flahive, Sam Forman, Nick Jones, Steven Levenson, Barry Levey, Carly Mensch, Rachel Shukert, Mat Smart, Adam Szymkowicz and Samuel Brett Williams. The plays will be directed by Evan Cabnet, Sam Gold, Shira Milikowsky, Meredith McDonough, and Kerry Whigham. Casting and band will be announced at a later date.

Play Group is a vibrant and eclectic group of emerging writers who gather twice a month at Ars Nova to share new work and get peer feedback. The group offers members the chance to develop their plays with peer support; to be inspired by each other's work; to form collaborative relationships; and to build a strong sense of community within Ars Nova.

Axel F by Liz Flahive
Looking for Astronauts by Steven Levenson
Sam Hall by Samuel Brett Williams
Where is My Mind by Mat Smart
Simple Man by Sam Forman
Crank That by Bekah Brunstetter
Mother Nature's Son by Dylan Dawson
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You by Rachel Shukert
Song for Myla Goldberg by Carly Mensch
Downeaster Alexa by Barry Levey
No Children by Adam Szymkowicz
Steppin' Out by Evan Cabnet
Different Drum by Annie Baker
Still, Still, Still by Nick Jones

Five performances only!
Thursday, January 22, 8pm, Friday, January 23, 8pm
Saturday, January 24, 2pm and 8pm, Sunday, January 25, 8pm

All tickets are only $15 and can be purchased at www.arsnovanyc.com

As New York's premiere hub for emerging artists and new work, Ars Nova is committed to developing and producing eclectic theatre, comedy and music to feed today's popular culture. To that end, Ars Nova strives to create daring collaborations, meld disciplines and give voice to a new generation of artists. This season Ars Nova developed and produced critically acclaimed productions of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Boom, Liz Flahive's From Up Here (in a co-production with Manhattan Theatre Club), and Nick Jones and Raja Azar's Jollyship the Whiz-Bang. Past productions include Dixie's Tupperware Party, At Least It's Pink, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Holy Cross Sucks!, Freestyle Love Supreme and The Wau Wau Sisters. In addition to its featured productions, Ars Nova supports and develops new work from the most promising emerging artists through its alternative comedy series (Tragedy Tomorrow), music series (Uncharted), public play-reading series (Out Loud), writer's group (Play Group) and artist-in-residence program. Ars Nova was founded in memory of Gabe Wiener.

Ars Nova is located at 511 West 54th Street. Box Office opens 30 minutes prior to performance. For more information, visit www.arsnovanyc.com.

Playwrights

Annie Baker's plays have been produced and developed at Soho Rep, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, the Atlantic, EST, Ars Nova, and The Sundance Institute. Annie was a member of EST's Youngblood and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, is currently a member of MCC Playwrights' Coalition and a Time Warner Storytelling Fellow.

Bekah Brunstetter hails from North Carolina and has an MFA in Playwriting from the New School for Drama. Most recently, her play Oohrah! was read in the Out Loud series, directed by Leigh Silverman. Other credits include: To Ninevah,Green, Le Fou, and You May Go Now (2008 NY Innovative Theater Award: Best New Full Length Play).

Evan Cabnet's (writer/director) directing credits include: Adam Rapp's Tone Unknown, Mark Schultz's Fun, and Liz Meriwether's 90 Days (stageFARM's SPIN/Cherry Lane), Brooke Berman's Wonderland (Juilliard), Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! (Long Wharf) and The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels). Other NYC: LCT, Public, Roundabout, Rattlestick, MCC, Soho Rep. Recipient of the 2003 Boris Sagal and 2002 Bill Foeller Fellowships for Directing, and the 2008 Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists. Founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group.

Dylan Dawson's most recent play, Movie Geek, has been produced in New York (Ars Nova, FringeNYC - Award Winner, The Culture Project (produced by Bill Cosby), L.A. (The Complex) and Maine (The Penobscot Theater).

Liz Flahive's From Up Here (winner: John Gassner Award for Playwriting), was recently produced by MTC in association with Ars Nova. A Tisch graduate, Liz's plays have been developed at Williamstown, Naked Angels, and Ars Nova. Liz also volunteers with the 52nd Street Project and is currently writing for Showtime's Nurse Jackie.

Sam Forman co-wrote (with composer Eli Bolin) the musical I Sing! Other plays include: The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (dir. Sam Gold) The Grille Room (dir. Thomas Kail), Quarterlife (workshop dir. by Mark Brokaw) Please Stop Talking, Fringical! (NYMF, dir. Thomas Kail), The Quiet Game (dir. Daniel Kramer).

Nick Jones is perhaps best known for last summer's pyrate puppet rock odyssey, Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova). Other works produced include: Little Building, Rockberry, and Straight Up Vampire. Upcoming: The Nosemaker's Apprentice, with Rachel Shukert, at the Brick.

Steven Levenson's plays include The Language of Trees (Roundabout Underground), Almost Stuck, and Girls Day, and they have been developed at Ars Nova, E.S.T., New York Stage & Film, New Dramatists, and Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre. A Brown University graduate, he's currently working on commissions for Roundabout and Lincoln Center.

Barry Levey's plays include Critical Darling (developed at Arena, Rattlestick and Williamstown and produced at The New Group) and All the Way From China (developed at Ars Nova and The New Group, produced by Fourth Wall, Cleveland). MFA, UCSD.

Carly Mensch's plays include Len, Asleep in Vinyl (Second Stage Uptown) and All Hail Hurricane Gordo (2008 Humana Festival of New Plays, co-produced by The Cleveland Playhouse). She's got some commissions and other stuff going on. Carly is a graduate of the Juilliard School and is Ars Nova's 2008 Playwright-in-Residence.

Rachel Shukert's plays include The Worshipped, Johnny Applefucker, and Bloody Mary. She has been produced and developed at Ars Nova, the Public, and Galapagos, among others. Upcoming: two collaborations with Nick Jones, and Wasp Cove at The Zipper. She's also the author of Have You No Shame? (Villard 2008) and an Omaha native.

Mat Smart's plays include The 13th of Paris (Pittsburgh's City Theatre) and The Hopper Collection (Huntington Theatre Company, Magic Theatre and published by Broadway Play Publishing). He has been commissioned by South Coast Rep, Huntington, City Theatre and Magic Theatre. He is co-founder of Slant Theatre Project. MFA: UCSD.

Adam Szymkowicz studied playwriting at Columbia and Juilliard. Several of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, MCC Playwright's Coalition and Ars Nova Play Group. For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Samuel Brett Williams' plays have been developed at the O'Neill, Kennedy Center, P73, and the Lark and produced at Cherry Lane Theatre, N.O.T.E., and the DC Arts Center. Brett recently received the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award and a National New Play Network New Play Commission.

Directors

Evan Cabnet: (writer/director) Directing credits include: Adam Rapp's Tone Unknown, Mark Schultz's Fun, and Liz Meriwether's 90 Days (stageFARM's SPIN/ Cherry Lane), Brooke Berman's Wonderland (Juilliard), Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! (Long Wharf Theater),The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels). Other NYC: LCT, Public, Roundabout, Rattlestick, MCC, Soho Rep., etc. Recipient of the 2003 Boris Sagal and 2002 Bill Foeller Fellowships for Directing, and the 2008 Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists. Founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group.

Sam Gold At Ars Nova: Nick Jones and Raja Azar's Jollyship the Whiz-bang. Other recent credits: Sam Forman's The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Stage 13), Noah Haidle's Rag and Bone (Rattlestick), Betty Shamieh's The Black Eyed (New York Theater Workshop), Sam Mark's The Joke (Studio Dante), Beau Willimon's Farragut North and War Story and Sam Hunter's I Am Montana (Juilliard).

Shira Milikowsky has spent the past year as the 2008 director-in-residence at Ars Nova. Favorite projects have included: Corey Tut: Everything... ‘Til Now, Jeffery Self's People I Slept With Who Never Called Me Back, and last year's Play Group's project, The Wikipedia Plays. Drama League Directing Fellow, Columbia MFA.

Meredith McDonough Meredith McDonough is the Associate Artistic Director of The Orchard Project and The Exchange, and is an Associate Artist at Delaware Theatre Company, where she is heading next to direct Copenhagen. NY premieres with Ars Nova, Keen Company, Women's Project, Slant Theatre, New Georges and the Drama League. MFA - UCSD.

Kerry Whigham recently directed Nobody Likes the Mormons and Josh Halloway's Girls I've LIKE Liked at Ars Nova's A.N.T. FEST. Other recent projects include premieres of punkplay by Gregory Moss, Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom by Jennifer Haley, and The Revolution Will Be Televised, also by Josh Halloway. www.kerrywhigham.com.

 

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