St. Ann's Warehouse to Welcome Back IN YOUR FACE NEW YORK with Roz Chast

St. Ann's Warehouse will welcome back In Your Face New York, the new episodic live show and podcast that aims to capture the city's energy through sketches, songs and monologues by an array of New York artists and writers, for a new edition on October 23.

Roz Chast, The New Yorker cartoonist, will be the show's special guest, reflecting on the ways NYC has influenced her life and work. The engagement follows a wildly successful start to St. Ann's second season in its new waterfront theater, with Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, making its American Premiere now through October 8.

In Your Face New York will take place at 5pm on Sunday, October 23. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at www.stannswarehouse.org or 718.254.8779. St. Ann's Warehouse is located at 45 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

As much as New York City changes, one thing about it remains indisputably true: not even a lifetime spent here is enough to take in the city's unparalleled array of people, cultures, attractions and stories. It's why tourists come here, and one of the primary reasons why residents of the city find it so hard to leave, even though it often feels like a place no sensible person would choose to live. Martin Sage, longtime producer of the Sympony Space series The Thalia Follies-A Political Cabaret, created In Your Face New York as a platform for these people and stories.

The new installmentwill feature a stellar breadth of personalities, including RAndy Cohen, formerly The Ethicist of The New York Times Sunday Magazine and NPR, who will examine the implications of the coming election in a "post-ethical world;" two-time Tony Award-winner James Naughton and celebrated Bolivian-American singer Gian-Carla Tisera, who will both contribute musical performances; Sports Illustrated Executive Editor Jon Wertheim; "Odd Mom Out" Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner Elisa Zuritsky; and more.

In Your Face New York premiered in October 2015 as one of the opening events for the new St. Ann's Warehouse, where it attracted a capacity crowd of approximately 700. Tony- and OBIE-winning playwright, actress and poet Sarah Jones hosted a lineup of participants including New Yorker staff writer Patricia Marx; WNYC's Brian Lehrer; New York Times obituary writer Bruce Weber; physician-novelist Josh Bazell (Beat the Reaper, Wild Thing); actress, singer and voice-over artist Ivy Austin (A Prairie Home Companion, The Thalia Follies); novelist and singer Rebecca Donner (Sunset Terrace); musicians including jazz legend Jay Leonhart (Music Director), Latin Jazz bandleader, composer and singer Gregorio Uribe, and the bands The Chalks and Invisible Familiars; in addition to Jon Wertheim and Elisa Zuritsky.

For more information about In Your Face New York, and to hear previous episodes, visit inyourfaceny.org.

Following In Your Face New York, the St. Ann's Warehouse 2016-17 season will continue with beloved British storyteller and comedIan Daniel Kitson's new story show, Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought, November 9 - 27; downtown New York icon Penny Arcade's Longing Lasts Longer, winner of Scotsman Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, December 1 - 11; the Donmar Warehouse production of The Tempest, culminating director Phyllida Lloyd's trilogy of all-female Shakespeare productions led by Harriet Walter, January 13 - February 19, 2017; 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's book from Kneehigh and Emma Rice, the new Artistic Director of Shakespeare's Globe, March 16 - April 9, 2017; and Arlington, the celebrated new play written and directed by Enda Walsh, choreographed by Emma Martin, and produced by Landmark Productions and the Galway International Arts Festival, May 3-28, 2017.

St. Ann's Warehouse plays a vital role on the global cultural landscape as an American artistic home for international companies of distinction, American avant-garde masters and talented emerging artists ready to work on a grand scale. St. Ann's signature flexible, open space allows artists to stretch, both literally and imaginatively, enabling them to approach work with unfettered creativity, knowing that the theater can be adapted in multiple configurations to suit their needs.

In the heart of Brooklyn Bridge Park, St. Ann's Warehouse has designed a spectacular waterfront theater that opened in October 2015. The new theater offers St. Ann's signature versatility and grandeur on an amplified scale while respecting the walls of an original 1860's Tobacco Warehouse. The building complex includes a second space, a Studio, for St. Ann's Puppet Lab, smaller-scale events and community uses, as well as The Max Family Garden, designed by landscape architects Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and open to Brooklyn Bridge Park visitors during Park hours.

Susan Feldman founded Arts at St. Ann's (now St. Ann's Warehouse) in 1980 as part of the New York Landmarks Conservancy, to help save the National Historic Landmark Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity on Montague Street in B­rooklyn Heights. For twenty-one years, St. Ann's presented a decidedly eclectic array of concert and theater performances in the church sanctuary.

From Fall 2001 through the 2014-15 season, the organization activated found spaces in DUMBO with the world's most imaginative theater- and music-makers, helping to make the burgeoning neighborhood a destination for New Yorkers and tourists alike. After twelve years (2001-2012) in a warehouse that was located at 38 Water Street, St. Ann's transformed another raw space at 29 Jay Street, turning it into an interim home for three years (2012-2015) while the organization adapted the then-roofless Tobacco Warehouse at 45 Water Street in Brooklyn Bridge Park into the new St. Ann's Warehouse.

The Inaugural Season, November 2015 - June 2016, featured signature international presentations that continually demonstrated the flexibility of the new St. Ann's Warehouse. The season began with the Donmar Warehouse all-female Henry IV, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter, and continued with The Last Hotel, a new opera from Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh; Nice Fish, written by Mark Rylance and prose poet Louis Jenkins after Jenkins' prose poems, and performed by a cast led by Rylance; the Young Vic's immensely acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire,directed by Benedict Andrews, with an explosive cast led by Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster, Vanessa Kirby and Corey Johnson; and Bianco, from the Cardiff-based international contemporary circus company NoFitState, which St. Ann's presented in a flying-saucer shaped tent erected under the Brooklyn Bridge in May 2016.

Almost four decades of consistently acclaimed landmark productions that found their American home at St. Ann's include Lou Reed's and John Cale's Songs for 'Drella; Marianne Faithfull's Seven Deadly Sins; Artistic Director Susan Feldman's Band in Berlin; Charlie Kaufman and the Coen Brothers' Theater of the New Ear; The Royal Court and TR Warszawa productions of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis; The Globe Theatre of London's Measure for Measure with Mark Rylance; Druid Company's The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom and Penelope by Enda Walsh and Walsh's Misterman, featuring Cillian Murphy; Lou Reed's Berlin; the National Theater of Scotland's Black Watch; Kneehigh Theatre's Brief Encounter and Tristan & Yseult; Yael Farber's Mies Julie; Dmitry Krymov Lab's Opus No. 7; the Donmar Warehouse all-female Julius Caesar and Henry IV; Kate Tempest's Brand New Ancients; Tricycle Theatre's Red Velvet and, most recently, the National Theatre of Scotland's Let the Right One In. St. Ann's has championed such artists as The Wooster Group, Mabou Mines, Jeff Buckley, Cynthia Hopkins, Emma Rice and Daniel Kitson, and presented an historic David Bowie concert in 2002.

The new St. Ann's Warehouse retains the best of its past homes: the sense of sacred space of the organization's original home in the Church, and the vastness and endless capacity for reconfiguration artists have harnessed in St. Ann's temporary warehouses in DUMBO.

For more information, visit www.stannswarehouse.org.

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