13P Premieres AMERICAN TREASURE at The Paradise Factory in November

Julia Jarcho's new play, AMERICAN TREASURE, will receive its premiere performance by the theatre group 13P beginning on November 21st and running through December 12th at The Paradise Factory. Jarcho will direct the play's initial run and the cast will feature Aaron Landsman and Jenny Seastone Stern.

Playwright-director Julia Jarcho returns to New York with a new play about scouring the landscape and looking for the missing pieces. One night, a Real History Detective meets a gumptious young vagabond with a harrowing past. Together, they'll follow a paper trail of blood and tears that goes all the way back to this nation's beginning.

Ms. Jarcho is a writer, director, and performer. Shows written and either directed or co-created include TAKE ME AWAY (Festival Il faut brûler pour briller, Paris, and ADA Berlin, 2007), ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU (Sophiensaele and English Theatre Berlin, 2006), DELMAR (Prenzlkasper, Berlin, 2005), THE HIGHWAYMAN (NTUSA performance space, Brooklyn, 2004; published in The Best American Short Plays 2005-2006). Other productions include A SMALL HOLE (Performance Lab 115, directed by Alice Reagan, Fringe NYC 2006) and NURSERY (Young Playwrights Festival, Cherry Lane, 2001). As a performer, she has worked with Richard Maxwell, Aaron Landsman, Tory Vazquez, and Fox/Yarden. She is a 2008-2009 Resident Playwright at the Playwrights' Foundation (San Francisco) and a board member of Young Playwrights Inc. She was a writer-in-residence at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in 2002 and won a Berrilla Kerr award the same year. Her play AMERICAN TREASURE will be produced by 13P in Fall 2009 with the support of Creative Capital.

The design team include sets by Jason Simms, costumes by Colleen Werthmann, lighting design by Ben Kato, and original music and sound design by Ryan Rumery. AMERICAN TREASURE will be stage managed by Jess Chayes and Rachel Karpf will act as associate producer.

13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.) was formed in 2003 by 13 midcareer playwrights concerned about what the trend of endless readings and new play development programs is doing to the texture and ambition of new American plays. We decided we were ready to take matters into our own hands. 13P realizes full productions of new plays. The resources of the company are placed at the disposal of the playwright at work, who serves as the company's artistic director during the production of her play. 13P was the recipient of a 2005 Obie Grant. In their citation, the judges wrote: "Not since Circle Repertory have we seen playwrights in New York forging a home for each other."

For more information, visit www.13p.org.