Barrow Street Presents TODD ALMOMD: WYOMING & PARTS OF KANSAS 5/9

Barrow Street Theatre and Jean Doumanian Productions launch a summer music series at the Barrow Street Theatre with a concert of new music by acclaimed composer Todd Almond. Todd Almond: Wyoming and Parts of Kansas, is a travelogue-in-song event inspired by the songwriter's journey across the American plains. Special Guest Maria Dizzia (In The Next Room or the vibrator play, Drunken City) and musicians will join Almond in this one-of-a-kind musical story telling event for one-night only on Monday, May 9th at 8:00 p.m. at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street). Running time is 85 minutes.

Todd Almond is a composer, lyricist and playwright. His musicals include We Have Always Lived In The Castle (Yale Repertory Theater, with playwright Adam Bock, dir: Anne Kauffman), On The Levee (Lincoln Center Theater, dir: Lear deBessonet); Girlfriend (Berkeley Rep., with songwriter Matthew Sweet, dir: Les Waters) the award-winning People Like Us (dir: Gus Kaikkonen), , Ahraihsak (Theater Mitu, dir: Ruben Polendo), Kansas City Choir Boy (dir: Sam Gold). Almond served as Music Director for the world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's Tres Niñas, and he has written musicals for both Juilliard and NYU Grad as well as music-directed and reconceived classic works, most notably Hair at the Skirball. In addition to having some of the theater world's top singers perform his music (Sherie Rene Scott, Victoria Clark, Cheyenne Jackson, Jayne Houdyshell, Laura Benanti, and more), Almond regularly performs his own material in NYC's top venues and he recently released a CD of original songs entitled Mexico City. He has been an artist-in-residence at Sundance (both Utah and Ucross, Wyoming), Vassar (with New York Theatre Workshop), and The Orchard Project. He is currently collaborating with Warren Leight and Stafford Arima on a musical adaptation of John Knowles' novel A Separate Peace and his new musical Odyssey will premiere at the Old Globe in San Diego this fall.

Maria Dizzia received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the Broadway production of In The Next Room or the vibrator (Lincoln Center Theater.) Off-Broadway credits include The Drunken City, Eurydice, The Wooden Breeks, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Apparition, Alice the Magnet, Cause for Alarm, and Gone Missing. Regionally she has appeared at Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Williamstown, Yale Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre, ASF, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. On television she appeared on "Fringe," "Smith," "Law & Order, Law & Order: CI." Film credits include Rachel Getting Married, Kiddie Ride, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, A New York Thing. She is an Associate Artist with The Civilians and received an MFA from UCSD.

All tickets for Todd Almond's: Wyoming and Parts of Kansas are priced at $25.00 and may be purchased online at www.smartix.com, by phone at (212) 868-4444, or at the Barrow Street Theatre Box Office (27 Barrow Street) open daily at 1 p.m. Additional information is available online at www.barrowstreettheatre.com

Barrow Street Theatre is located at 27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue South in the heart of Greenwich Village. Nearby subway stops are the 1 at Christopher Street (walk 1 block South on 7th Avenue to Barrow) and the A, C, E, B, D, F and M at West 4th (walk West on 4th Street, left on Barrow).