Announcing ALEXANDRIA By Vince Gatton

Sanguine Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Vince Gatton's ALEXANDRIA, directed by Jordana Williams at IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, between Greenwich and Washington, 10014), August 5-18, 2018.

Performances are set for: Sunday, August 5 at 7:30pm, Monday, August 6 at 7:30pm, Wednesday, August 8 at 7:30pm, Thursday, August 9 at 7:30pm, Friday, August 10 at 7:30pm, Saturday, August 11 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm, Sunday, August 12 at 7:30pm, Tuesday, August 14 at 7:30pm, Wednesday, August 15 at 7:30pm, Thursday, August 16 at 7:30pm, Friday, August 17 at 7:30pm, Saturday, August 18 at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. Tickets ($20 when purchased in advance, $25 at the door) are available online at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3500677 or by calling 1-800-838-3006. The performance will run approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

In a small town in the deep south, two librarians are unlikely friends. When outside forces threaten their safe space, each has to decide what to save: their friendship or themselves. Something has to burn. ALEXANDRIA is a play about relationships that cross the deep divides of belief and conviction: what those relationships are worth, and what they cost.

ALEXANDRIA won Sanguine Theatre Company's 2018 Project Playwright Festival. The play was chosen from over 430 submissions to receive its world premiere as part of Sanguine's 2018 season. "Vince's wonderful and wounding script reminds us that, especially in times of uncertainty, we have a vital opportunity to choose love, compassion, and empathy in the face of difference," says artistic director, Emily Jackson.

The cast will feature James Foster, Jr (The Whaleship Essex at Hudson Guild Theatre), Stephen Heskett (Ecstasy, Black Door Theatre Company), Jonathan Melo (Skippy Jon Jones: Snow What?!), Shauna Miles (Law & Order: SVU, The Good Wife), and Kristen Vaughan (Benefactors, Retro Productions) with lighting and set designs by Tyler M. Perry, and costumes by Amanda Jenks.

Vince Gatton (Playwright) is a New York-based actor and writer. His short plays have appeared in mtp's annual Cherry Picking at the Wild Project in NYC, at the Fine Arts Association in Willoughby, Ohio, and The New American Theatre in Los Angeles; HI-Q was a finalist for the 2015 Short Playwriting Award at City Theatre in Miami and JAM won Best Play in the 2015 LIC Short Play Festival. WAKE, his first full-length play, was a semifinalist for PlayPenn 2016 and Boomerang Theatre's First Flight 2018, and a finalist at Dayton Playhouse's FutureFest 2017. www.vincegatton.com

Jordana Williams (Director) primarily directs for Gideon Productions: The Honeycomb Trilogy (NY Times and Time Out NY Critics' Picks, The Guardian's Top Ten NY Theatre of 2015), God of Obsidian, Universal Robots, Asymmetric (Time Out NY Critics' Pick), Ligature Marks, Frankenstein Upstairs, Viral (FringeNYC Outstanding Production of a Play), Hail Satan, and three seasons with the Vampire Cowboys' genre-bending Saturday Night Saloon. Other favorite directing credits include Kill Shakespeare at HERE and NY Comic Con and The Particulars with The Bridge Theatre Company. Ms. Williams also directed the million-plus downloaded audio drama Steal the Stars for Tor Labs/Gideon Media.

Sanguine Theatre Company discovers and produces new plays, champions the exchange of theatrical work across regions, and cultivates an active community of artists and theatregoers. By telling vital human stories, Sanguine hopes to reflect, amplify, and contribute to the narrative of our time. www.sanguinenyc.org

IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRTs mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts and Mike Daisey. www.irttheater.org