Kilgore and Cabnet Direct 'Spin' At Cherry Lane

Alex Kilgore and Evan Cabnet are set to direct the world premiere of the stageFARM's newest work, SPIN, which begins performances on Friday, October 3, at The Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street).  In the spirit of last season's acclaimed VENGEANCE, the Off-Broadway theatre company will present a series of new short plays commissioned on the timely topic by Adam Rapp, Gina Gionfriddo, Judith Thompson, Elizabeth Meriwether, and Mark Schultz.  An official Opening night is set for Saturday evening, October 11, 2008 at 8:00 p.m.

In describing SPIN, the stageFARM's Artistic Director Kilgore has commented, "As with last year's VENGEANCE, we're interested in using 5 great playwrights as a barometer for what's happening now. By spin, I mean manipulation parading as fact. I chose this because I think our country groans under the yoke of hype and disinformation, not just in the media but across the board. The media, industry, politics, the establishment and the arts have conspired to bring us not their constituent parts, but a presentation of what they would like us to think they are. There's a new vacuity; style is not only more important than substance, it's overcome it. Spin captures this year's zietgeist; it's the icing under which the cake of our country now lumbers. Everyone's running around SPUN out, high on icing."

The creative team for SPIN includes John McDermott (set design), Nicole Pearce (lighting design), James Calleri (casting), and Jillian Oliver (production stage manager).

SPIN runs through November 8 and will play the following schedule: Tuesday – Saturday at 8pm. Tickets are $37.50 and are available by visiting www.thestagefarm.org.

Adam Kilgore- As the stageFARM's artistic director he commissioned and directed (with Ari Edelson) last season's VENGEANCE series, and directed last season's premiere of David Folwell's Drug Buddy. As an actor off broadway credits include the US premieres of David Folwell's Boise (Rattlestick- 2004 Outer Critics Circle Nomination), Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney (Blue Light Theater Co.), and Lost Highway, (as Hank Williams).  Refuge, Henry V, Gin and Bitters, My Crummy Job (EST), and the posthumous premiere of Clifford Odets' Night Music (Actors Studio).  Many regional plays.  Film/TV: "If I Didn't Care," "Cowboy Jesus," "Fever," "Wonder Showzen," "The City," "Swift Justice"...etc.  His third screenplay, Unveiled, directed by Bill Bannerman, is in preproduction, and in December he will direct his second screenplay, Texasstyle, starring Henry Thomas and Bill Sage, produced by Lillian LaSalle. He is a graduate of NYU's Gallatin School, the Director of The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and plays in the band CLAW.

Evan Cabnet-  Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Long Wharf Theater, East Coast Premiere), Liz Meriwether's The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels/Culture Project, World Premiere), Tell Out My Soul (Public Theater/SPF), A Little Soul Searching (EST Marathon 2008), Sense of an Ending (Huntington), Then and Now (Ars Nova), JC2K (NY Musical Theater Festival), President and Man (Duke Theater), Training Wisteria (Theater Row/SPF), The Morgan Morality Act of 1894 (45th St. Theater), My Renaissance Faire Lady (Rattlestick/Ontological-Hysteric Theater), Herbie (Lincoln Center Library), and his own adaptations of Ubu Roi and Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Williamstown). He has developed new works by Beau Willimon, Carly Mensch, Jim Knable, Kyle Jarrow, Etan Frankel, Liz Flahive, Francine Volpe, Louis Cancelmi, Steven Levenson, Mat Smart, Ken Urban, Josh Lefkowicz, and many others. Associate/Assistant credits include: Edward Albee's Seascape, Chris Shinn's Dying City, and The Rivals (Lincoln Center Theater), As You Like It (Delacorte/NYSF), and Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All The Luck (Roundabout). Five seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival, including the 2003 Boris Sagal and 2002 Bill Foeller Fellowships. Founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group, former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and Artist-in-Residence at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Upcoming: Brooke Berman's Wonderland (Juilliard Playwrights Festival).

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