8th Annual DUCT TAPE AND A DREAM Festival Runs Now thru 5/10

For the eighth installment of the Duct Tape and A Dream festival, Roots and Wings Theatrical will showcase six dynamic projects divided between two programs running in repertory today, May 6, through May 10, 2015. The festival consists of a "Duct Tape" Program and a "Dream" Program and encompasses engaging and imaginative works which include everything from dance & movement, comedy & drama, devised work, and musical cabaret. The programs will play in rotation at Theatre 54 at 244 West 54th Street, 12th Floor, New York, New York 10019 for five days with 29 artists sharing the stage.

The festival is produced by the Roots and Wings Board of Directors, which includes Maggie Albert, Caralie Chrisco, Kelsey Moore, Lauren Rayner, Bradley Troll, and Joseph Samuel Wright. The Festival Stage Manager is Josh Garon. All tickets are $20 and can be obtained at the door or purchased in advance via brownpapertickets.com. For more information, please visit www.ducttapeandadream.org/tickets

Complimentary press tickets are available to any festival performance. Please contact Caralie Chrisco at caralie@rawtheatrical.org

The 2015 Festival Line-Up:

DUCT TAPE PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Wednesday, May 6 at 8 PM
Friday, May 8 at 8 PM
Saturday, May 9 at 2 PM

UVB - 76
Written by Bradley Troll
Directed by Daniel LeBlanc
Featuring Marc Deliz, Kelsey Moore, and Max Thornton

Several decades ago, a strange transmission broadcasting on a shortwave frequency in Russia was discovered. Today, a young writer thinks that this mysterious transmission, called UVB-76, might hold the answers to more than war codes, alien communication, or mind control; it might contain one final message from his dead father. UVB-76 explores the messages we send, the messages we choose to receive, and the ways we learn to communicate despite our isolation.

HOSTAGE BALLET
Written by Katy Koop
Directed by Caleb Caudill
Featuring Katie Curri and Mike McNulty

Two hostages who are bound and duct taped, try to communicate and ultimately escape their captors. That attempt for escape eventually becomes a dance, an exercise in survival that the hostages Jane and John are players in.

EN PASSANT
Written and Directed by Michael Hagins
Featuring Benny Acevedo, Erika Bracy-Mendoza, Mateo Ervin, Katt Masterson, Rebecca R. Overholt, and Michael Rehse

Five strangers find themselves playing a billionaire's chess themed game of death to pay off their debts.

DREAM PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Thursday, May 7 at 8 PM
Saturday, May 9 at 8 PM
Sunday, May 10 at 2 PM

EXISTENTIAL MAGIC EIGHT BALL
Written by Jeremy Kehoe
Directed by Lauren Heirigs
Featuring Joshua Robinson and Josh Marcantel

A frosty hit-man shoved off the straight-and-narrow path struggles to withstand the heat of coming face-to-face with an innocent man convicted of one of his crimes. Will he do the right thing and confess? The right thing to do: that's one of those long, tall, bony questions with lots of thick branches and deep-ass roots.

VACILANDO
Written by Monica Trausch and The Ephemeral Explorers
Directed by Rebecca Cunningham
Stage Managed by Kyle Ferguson
Featuring Emily Asaro, Erin Hanraty, and Vicki Rodriguez
Vacilando brings to life the world of Francisco, a woman on the verge of the voyage of her life. Will she be like Jack Kerouac or will she find stability on her journey? Can she truly become a vacilando, one who travels without a destination, or will her own fears, and Athena and Bones, keep her from her destiny?

ABOUT-FACE
Written by Shannon Krowicki
Directed by Nichoel Yannetty
Musical Direction by Audra Cramer

An inspiring artist shares her story of self-perseverance and transformation through comedy, characters, and song: "We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I, survived'"