Annie Golden and More Set for CHASING THE RIVER This Week in Manhattan

Karen Carpenter (Delia & Nora Ephron's Love Loss and What I Wore) will helm three special presentations of CHASING THE RIVER in Midtown Manhattan tonight, October 19th at 6:30PM and tomorrow, October 20th at 12:30PM and 4:30PM.

With a cast that includes Annie Golden (Netflix's Orange is The New Black), Madeleine Martin (Showtime's Californication and Netflix's Hemlock Grove), Carolyn McCormick (Law & Order), EJ Bonilla (AMC's Unforgettable and Guiding Light) and Deborah Rayne (Off Broadway's Spirits of Exit Eleven), CHASING THE RIVER by Jean Giebel explores time, memory and how we remember the past when it's weighed down by trauma.

KAREN CARPENTER is the Artistic Director of the William Inge Center for the Arts and produces its annual Inge Festival. Karen directed hundreds of our most beloved comediennes in the premiere of Drama Desk award-winner Love Loss and What I Wore, which ran a record three years Off-Broadway. Premieres include New York Times critics' pick Handle With Care, Witnessed by the World, and Admit One. She has directed Michael Keaton in The 24HR Plays, Festival de Sole, Napa; and Kelly Bishop and Beth Fowler in Steel Magnolias for Papermill Playhouse, Surflight Theater's Wizard of Oz, and The Vagina Monologues for Bucks County Playhouse, starring Andrea McArdle & Lea Delaria. For five seasons Ms. Carpenter was Associate Artistic Director of the Tony-winning Old Globe Theater, where she served as artistic producer for over 50 productions. Her most notable directing hits there included Jeffrey Hatcher's Smash, and Harold Pinter's Betrayal. Her production of As You Like It for the Old Globe was deemed Best of the Year by San Diego Magazine. kcdirector.com• @kcdirector

JEAN GIEBEL is a Professor of Drama, faculty Director, and former Chair of the Department of Drama and Dance at Hofstra University. She has appeared Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and in Regional theaters. Favorite roles include Bianca THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, Honey WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? and Charlotte Corday MARAT/SADE. She has also appeared as a principle in numerous TV commercials and worked as a spokesperson for Mattel, Inc. and Computership, Inc. She has directed multiple Off and Off-Off Broadway productions including works at The Mint Theater, Riverside Shakespeare Company, The Hudson Guild and the 45th Street Theater, and has developed several new scripts for the Annual Samuel French Original Short Play Festival as well as the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. She has written or adapted several works for the theater. CHASING THE RIVER is her first original full-length play. Jean is married to voice-over artist Tim Giebel, and they live with her very best production, Amelia Louise. jeandobiegiebel.com

CHASING THE RIVER is produced by RAINY DAY PRODUCTIONS in association with AARON GRANT THEATRICAL, INC. Aaron Grant is the Executive Producer.

For more information or to RSVP, e-mail River@theatrical.ag or call 347-954-9157.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride