Andrea Alton's POSSUM CREEK to Premiere at FringeNYC This August

Award-winning playwright and cult downtown comic, Andrea Alton returns to the New York International Fringe Festival with an all new multi-character solo show, Possum Creek.

Naive young Civil War bride Beth Ann discovers the joys, heartbreaks and befuddlement of waiting at home for her soldier husband in Possum Creek, Ohio. In a solo show featuring a dozen characters and spanning 30 years, Possum Creek skewers Civil War epics and the documentaries they inspire, and features illicit loves, plagues, a possible romantic interlude with Harriet Tubman, illegitimate babies, and of course, a beloved pig.

Andrea Alton has been involved with FringeNYC since 2003 when she was cast as the lead in Jay Duffer's dark comedy Big Girl, Little World. Additional FringeNYC credits include the 2009 two-person comedy Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever (actor/co-writer with Allen Warnock) and the riotous 2011 solo show The F*cking World According To Molly (writer/performer) which was later produced at terraNOVA's soloNOVA Festival and The Dublin Gay International Theatre Festival.

This quirky twelve character play is directed by Eric Chase, whose work is regularly seen at The Dysfunctional Theatre Company and Emerging Artists Theatre. Possum Creek is presented in association with Emerging Artists Theatre and is produced by Irwin Kroot, whose previous credits include The F*cking World According To Molly, and numerous productions at The Laurie Beechman Theatre and with Kaleidoscope Theatre Company.

The creative team includes costume & properties design by Anthony Catanzaro (The F*cking World According To Molly/FringeNYC), press associate Byrne Harrison, dramaturgy by Paul Adams (Artistic Director, Emerging Artists Theatre), stage management by Deidre Works, and production voice-overs by Allen Warnock (The Knick/Cinemax).

All performances take place at UNDER St. Marks, 94 St. Marks Place, (Between First Avenue & Avenue A). Subways: F to 2nd Avenue, L to 1st Avenue, 6 to Astor Place. Tickets are $18.00 and are available at www.fringenyc.org starting July 17th. Show dates: Sunday, August 16th @ 4:30 pm; Wednesday, August 19th @ 7:00 pm; Friday, August 21st @ 5:45 pm; Sunday, August 23rd @ 3:30 pm; and Friday, August 28th @ 8:45 pm. Running time: 60 minutes. More information is available at www.possumcreektheplay.com and www.fringenyc.org.

Andrea Alton (Actor/Writer) is a New York based actor, comic, and an award winning playwright who performs sketch comedy, stand-up and improv all over New York. Andrea has performed at the Chicago, Toronto, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco Comedy Festivals and as well as numerous shows in Provincetown, MA. She is the creator of Molly "Equality" Dykeman and has performed the character to sold-out houses internationally. Her holiday shows A Molly Jolly Christmas & Happy Mollydays ran at The Laurie Beechman Theatre where it received rave reviews. Favorite theatre credits include; Big Girl, Little World (FringeNYC), Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Acting Company), The Strangest Kind Of Romance (Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival), The Chiselers (Emerging Artists Theatre), Pioneer Loving (The Universal Theatre Festival/Provincetown), Reckless (Kaleidoscope Theatre), Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever (co-writer/actor, 2008 FringeNYC - commercial run in 2010) and the upcoming production, Molly Dykeman's F*cked Up Family Reunion which will premiere at Dixon Places HOT Festival on July 20th. As a comic, Andrea performs regularly throughout New York, Venues include, Gotham, Comedy Cellar, Carolines, The Broadway Comedy Club, The Knitting Factory, UCB, The PIT, Stonewall and The Duplex. Andrea has also been featured in GO Magazine as 100 Women We Love as well as Curve Magazine, The Advocate, Provincetown Magazine, The Village Voice and The NY Post. As a writer, Andrea's plays have been produced throughout the country with notable productions in New York, Washington DC, Florida, and Provincetown, MA. Her one-act comedy, Cat & Dick, won the Grand Jury Award from The Speaking Ring Theater in Chicago. In addition to performing and writing, Andrea is also a publicist for Indie Theatre. In the last three years she's served as a press representative on seven FringeNYC productions including Salamander Starts Over (2012), The Unfortunates (2013), and last year's production of Urban Momfare. All these productions received rave reviews and were produced at the Fringe Encore Series. This year she's serving as press representative on Benjamin Folstein's new musical, Love is Like Mud.

Eric Chase (Director) is a freelance actor, director, and producer for theatre, film and television. He works regularly with The Dysfunctional Theatre Company, AMIOS, Emerging Artists' Theatre Company, and the filmmakers at House of Nod. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association, and is a member and an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He is a fight choreographer, and periodically teaches workshops in stage combat at theatre programs and colleges. He is a licensed tour guide and owns and operates the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl and its several spin-off tours (www.literarypubcrawl.com). He is on the board of directors of Literary Manhattan. Each year he donates his time to the A-T Children's Project for their annual benefit. For more information go to www.ericdchase.com.