BAHR Productions Presents BEFORE WE'RE GONE

BAHR Productions, the Hollywood-based Film, Television, and Digital Production Company behind the soon to open Off-Off Broadway play debut of BEFORE WE'RE GONE, by Jerry Small, has announced they intend to take their new play to Off- Broadway, with an eye on Broadway following the one-month run at the historic 13th Street Repertory Theatre, beginning July 5th, 2018. The theater, one of the longest operating theatrical venues in New York City, has seen a recent resurrection of sorts with a stronger line-up of productions in the last year, including several AEA-approved productions, is now the beneficiary of a newly reconstructed stage thanks to a major donation by Bahr Productions.

"The entire production is top notch," said the play's Director and Artistic Director of The 13th Street Repertory Theatre, Joe John Battista.

Bahr productions, led by Erika Lockridge, has approached this project with the intention to create a professional atmosphere at every level, beginning with a seasoned equity (AEA) cast that includes Broadway/Off-Broadway's Leenya Rideout in the lead role of "Kate," and John Zdrojeski as Richard. Rounding out the cast are Jay Russell and Emily Juliette Murphy, both with Broadway/Off-Broadway credits to their names playing a variety of characters. The casting was managed by veteran Broadway casting company, McCorkle Casting, Ltd.

The love story/drama BEFORE WE'RE GONE by Jerry Small is about second chances and the consequences of the choices we make in life.

"I wanted this play to be a different kind of love story, an unlikely romance, one that does not reach a successful flowering in its first act," says the award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Jerry Small. "Fundamental to the genesis of the play was the notion of throwing together by chance two very different personalities, mismatched by experience and outlook on life and separated by a significant age difference."

An earlier version of Before We're Gone, under the title Near Occasion of Sin, was a semifinalist in the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and a finalist in the NAAA Play Reading Fest at the Central School of Speech & Drama in London.

BEFORE WE'RE GONE is the story of a Pulitzer-winning playwright, screenwriter and outspoken political activist (Played by Leenya Rideout), who has disappeared from her high- profile life in New York, Hollywood, and the tabloids, to hide under an assumed name in a secluded seaside motel in Santa Barbara, California, where she intends to end her life by her own hand.

At the very moment she is about to commit suicide, there is a knock on her door. It is a man (Played by John Zdrojeski) with whom she had a brief relationship twenty-five years earlier, when she was thirty-six and at the height of her Broadway fame. He was naïve, twenty, and studying to be a Catholic priest. They met during the 1950's in Reno's famous art-deco Mapes Hotel, where she was staying for her six-weeks divorce, and he was working in the hotel while on sabbatical from the Franciscan Order, struggling to resolve doubts about the priesthood and himself.

Over the last twenty-five years, they have not seen each other nor spoken.

BEFORE WE'RE GONE is a drama that deals with religion, the choices we make in life, and the topic of assisted suicide, among other things. Rehearsals have been underway for several weeks and the play opens July 5th, 2018 and runs for one month until August 5th. Several potential New York theatre producers are scheduled to see the play during this run as plans are being made to take it the next stage soon after.

Performances are JULY 5th-AUGUST 5th, 2018 Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30pm Sunday Matinees at 3:00pm Doors open 30 minutes prior.

You are invited to attend any of the performances for the first weekend and can reserve a COMPLIMENTARY ticket for you and a guest by emailing Roger Gonzalez at RogerGonzalezNYCmedia@gmail.com or calling 646-285-3033

Ticket prices are $25 Adults / Seniors $20, Now on Sale on BrownPaperTickets.com (https:// www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3365708), and are also offered on TDF and Goldstar.

Production Credits: A Play by Jerry Small Directed by Joe John Battista Set design by Brian Dudkiewicz Costume Design by Martha Bromelmeier Wig & Hair Design by Paul Huntley Lighting & Sound Design by Allison Hohman Original Music by Joseph LoDuca Casting by Pat McCorkle,CSA & Katja Zarolinski, CSA Production Stage Manager: Allison Hohman Assistant Stage Manager: Kerielle Sollecito Wardrobe Supervisor: Kennedy Jazz Costume Assistant: Everett Clark Technical Director/Carpenter: ToniAnne DiFilippo Assistant Technical Director/Carpenter: Jordan Cavanaugh Prop Design by Allison Hohman & Kerielle Sollecito Cover Art: Sean Cheetham Photography by John Phelps Social Media Consultant: Topher Cusumano