3 To a Session - 3 One-Act Plays to Run at Harold Clurman Theatre Feb 1-5

The Immediate Theater Company will run three new one-acts at the Harold Clurman Theater in Theater Row, at 410 West 42nd St. Under the title 3 To a Session, the one-acts, Play>, See The World, and 3 To a Session: A Monster's Tale, will be performed from February 1st to February 5th.

Performance dates: Wednesday, Feb. 1st, 8pm. Opening reception to follow performance on Thursday, Feb. 2nd, 8pm, Friday, Feb. 3rd, 8pm, Saturday, Feb. 4th, 8pm, Sunday, Feb 5th, 3pm. Five performances total. Their previous show, Jonathan Leaf's The Caterers, debuted at Altered Stages to critical acclaim this past October.

In Play>, written and directed by Paul Siemens, a brother and a sister lie awake at bedtime. The sister asks, 'What do you want to do now?' The brother's answer: 'Play.' Thus begins a game in which the only rules are the limits of the players' imaginations. Play> depicts the originality of playtime, the creation of narrative, and the possibilities inherent in any game waiting to be played.

The sound play See the World, written and directed by Jeremy McCarter, follows a young couple and their daughter as they travel to an exotic foreign land, where their search for the real world leads them into fantastical adventures.

3 To a Session: A Monster's Tale, written by Desi Moreno-Penson and directed by Jose Zayas, won the Best Play Award at the Downtown Urban Theater Festival in 2005 (Cherry Lane). Moreno-Penson unveils a riveting and provocative tale that takes place in a surrealistic realm between life and death. The introspective and child-like Vincent, the smart and steely-eyed Ally, and the sexy, yet uptight plant-lover Paula, engage in sexual play-acting scenarios, which lead them into memories of loss, love, longing, and domestic violence.

Paul Siemens is the Producing Director of The Immediate Theater Company. For Immediate, Paul has produced RPM, Would You Lie To Me? Please?, Obscene Jesters, Conspirators, Plutus, Eleven, Late Night with Jac, The Maid's Tragedy and The Caterers. He also wrote Play>, So a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office…, and The Proposal, co-wrote Merde! and appeared in several of the above in addition to The Modern Magic of Ms. Beek and The Germans in Paris. Other acting credits include the Obie Award-winning Benten Kozo and Baal (Flea Theater), The White Devil (Brooklyn Academy of Music), A Christmas Carol (McCarter) and Lend Me a Tenor (best actor nomination, IRNE Awards). Paul is a graduate of Harvard College, a Hasty Pudding alumnus, and the recipient of the Jonathan Levy Prize for the most promising actor at the university.

Jeremy McCarter has worked in the theater as an adapter, director, and dramaturge. For Immediate, he directed his own adaptation of Aristophanes' Plutus (HERE). He is the theater critic for New York magazine, and a graduate of Harvard.

Playwright/actor/dramaturge Desi Moreno-Penson won the 2004 Downtown Urban Theatre Festival Best Short Award with A Latina Prepares (Henry Street Settlement), and has numerous stage and screen credits including roles in Spike Lee's "Girl 6" and "Extreme Measures." She is a member of the Professional Playwrights Unit at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre as well as INTAR'S Hispanic Playwrights Residence Lab (HPRL). In addition, she is the artistic director of Actors Without Spaces, a Bronx-based, multi-ethnic playwrights' ensemble. Other honors include the 2001 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Playwriting Fellowship and the 2002 Louis Delgado Jr. Playwriting Award. Desi holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Theatre Criticism from Brooklyn College. Her new play, Grinch will receive its premiere production in April (Urban Stages).

José Zayas is the Artistic Director of The Immediate Theater Company and has directed the company's productions of The Caterers (Altered Stages), The Germans in Paris (59E59 Theaters), Obscene Jesters (HERE Arts Center), The Maid's Tragedy (HERE Arts Center), Conspirators (HERE Arts Center), The Ethics of Sexual Acts (WAX), The Modern Magic of Ms. Beek (American Living Room Festival) and Would You Lie To Me? Please? (Theater 3). Other credits include: Madre (El Drama Padre) (Spanish Repertory, winner of two HOLA awards, 4 ACE Nominations), I'm With Mauricio (INTAR), Me and My Girl (Village Light Opera), Bob… (Ontological), 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Winner Best Production, 2000, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Orestes 2.0 (ODU), Life is a Dream (ODU). He is the recipient of a Peter Sellars Directing Award, a Drama Clan Award and a John Pasquin Fellowship. He was a Kenneth Frankel Directing Fellow at MTC and is a Drama League Directing Fellow. He is a graduate of Harvard University and has an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.