Bill Connington & Cadden Jones to Lead PYGMALION Today

Award­-winning actors Bill Connington (ZOMBIE) and Cadden Jones (WEST SIDE STORY) appear today in the sparkling George Bernard Shaw comedy PYGMALION at a private club on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Bill Connington won several awards for acting in the play and short film versions of ZOMBIE, based on the novella by literary giant Joyce Carol Oates. Cadden Jones has been seen as the lead in WEST SIDE STORY and THE MUSIC MAN, as well as in LAW & ORDER SVU and BLUE BLOODS. Connington and Jones were trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, respectively.

Also in the cast are Brian Charles Rooney, who starred on Broadway in THE THREEPENNY OPERA, and recently off­Broadway in BEDBUGS, Carole Monferdini who starred in VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM, THE CLUB, and FULL GALLOP, and Paul Niebanck who most recently performed with Kathleen Chalfant in A WALK IN THE WOODS for the Keen Company on Theater Row. The same cast has appeared before in the play at the Colonial Dames Museum House.

Directing the evening is Dev Bondarin, who was recently named Artistic Director of Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) and is also the Associate Artistic Director of Prospect Theater Company. She has directed King Lear, and The House of Blue Leaves.

PYGMALION is the beloved Shaw comedy about the Cockney flower girl transformed into a glamorous Society figure by a professor of phonetics. The play was famously adapted into the hit musical MY FAIR LADY.

Razors Edge Productions has produced THE DINING ROOM, A CHEEVER EVENING, LOVE LETTERS, PRIVATE LIVES, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, and ART in New York. It also produced ZOMBIE at the New York International Fringe Festival, and two other extended Off­Broadway runs, as well as the short film ZOMBIE, which screened at 22 film festivals and won 5 awards.