Casting Announced for LAByrinth's Barn Series Fest, Dec. 2-19
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 30, 2005
Intríngulis by Carlo Alban will feature Carlo Alban; A Small Melodramatic Story by Stephen Belber will feature Carlo Alban, Ron Cephas Jones, Chris McGarry and Portia; 1+1 by Eric Bogosian will feature Katie Nehra, Michael Puzzo and Justin Reinsilber; City of Palms by Raul Castillo will feature Carlo Alban, Vanessa Aspillaga, Maggie Bofill, Alexis Croucher, Felix Solis and Doug Stender; Pretty Chin Up by Andrea Ciannavei will feature Buzz Bovshow, Andrea Ciannavei, Beth Cole, Alexis Croucher and Sal Inzerillo; and All the Bad Things by Cusi Cram will feature Vanessa Aspillaga, Jen Grant, Justin Reinsilber, Phyllis Somerville, Alexa Scott-Flaherty and David Zayas.
The Barn Series Festival features projects originally workshopped at the annual Summer Intensive, and is the next stage of development at LAByrinth. The plays, each rehearsed for 15 hours, are usually presented twice and typically feature the same cast and director as at the Intensive, while the playwrights are active participants in the process. While it is a reading series (so actors hold scripts), many Barn Series projects have added production values such as sound, lighting, and blocking. The aim of the series is to nurture new works at differing stages of development, so each piece is presented in the manner that best serves its needs.
Many projects from LAByrinth's Barn Series have won acclaim at other theaters in New York and nationwide: including Nilo Cruz' Beauty of the Father, which will be presented this season by Manhattan Theater Club, as well as The Secret Lives of Losers by Megan Mostyn-Brown at the Tribeca Theater Festival, and The Dirty Talk by Michael Puzzo at The New York International Fringe Festival.
"LAByrinth Theater Company
was founded in 1992 when thirteen actors joined forces to form a place to
work. The idea was to create a home where the group, for three hours each
week, could engage in a variety of theatrical exercises designed to push each
others' limits and bind together into a tightly knit, uninhibited and
impassioned ensemble - one in which each member is given the opportunity and
support not only to act, but to write, direct, produce, sweep, paint, hang
lights, etcetera," state press notes.
LAByrinth Theater Company has produced 38 new American plays including The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train, and In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings by Stephen Adly Guirgis; Guinea Pig Solo by Brett C. Leonard; Dutch Heart of Man by Robert Glaudini; The Trail of Her Inner Thigh by Erin Cressida Wilson; Stopless by David Deblinger; Dreaming in Tongues by the LAByrinth Ensemble; Cutting Open Wings by Lidia Ramirez; Queen Latina and Her Power Posse Versus The Evils of Society (a musical comic book for the stage) by David Anzuelo; and Sailor's Song, Where's My Money, A Winter Party, and Dirty Story by John Patrick Shanley.
All readings are free and open to the public at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette Street). Reservations are required and can be obtained by calling 212-513-1083 or emailing barnseriesRSVP@labtheater.org.
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