Doyle, Daniel & More Round Out VERITAS Reading 5/25

Casting is complete for the special May 25 one-night-only reading of Stan Richardson's VERITAS to benefit Lambda Legal, directed by Ryan J. Davis.

The reading now stars Matt Doyle (Broadway: Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), Tate Ellington (Broadway: The Philanthropist; Film: Remember Me), Eric Nelson (Broadway: 13), Mitch Dean (Altar Boyz), Blake Daniel (Broadway: Spring Awakening), Matt Steiner (The Acting Company's Jane Eyre), Wayne Wilcox (Broadway: Coram Boy, TV: Gilmore Girls), and Christian Coulson (Film: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets). It will be directed by Ryan J. Davis (White Noise, Broadway Beauty Pageants) and will be performed on Tuesday, May 25th at 8PM. This performance will include music by Rachel Peters (Stretch [a fantasia]) freely adapted from the Harvard Song Book.

Inspired by true events, VERITAS is the story of a group of young men at Harvard in 1920 whose promising futures fell prey to Harvard's "Secret Court": a furtive gay witch-hunt conducted by the president and deans of the school to expurgate Harvard of all homosexuality.

The play will be fully produced as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival in August. More information at www.VeritasThePlay.com.

The reading of Veritas will take place May 25th at 8PM, LGBT Community Center, Room 301, 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011. Tickets are now on sale ($20 for General Admission, $50 for VIP) and available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111403. All profits benefit Lambda Legal, the nation's oldest and largest legal organization working for the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, and people with HIV/AIDS. 

Playwright Stan Richardson is from St. Louis, Missouri living in New York City since 1995. His plays, which include VERITAS, The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot's Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalk Circle (with composer Rachel Peters), The Children (with composer HAl Goldberg), wHormone and All the World's Problems, have received workshop productions and readings at such venues as Second Stage, Ars Nova, Classic Stage Company, Dixon Place, PS122, The Brick Theatre and the New York Musical Theatre Festival. His play, Another Brief Encounter, was published in Plays & Playwrights 2007, available at bookstores and at NYTE.com. An alumnus of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, the Upright Citizens Brigade, and Edward Albee's Playwrights' Workshop, and a former resident of Albee's "Barn," Stan is a contributor to nytheatre.com and a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America.

VERITAS Credits: Written by Stan Richardson, Directed by Ryan J. Davis, Music by Rachel Peters, Associate Producer: Nathan Vernon, Casting Director Daryl Eisenberg, Stage Manager Corey Phillips. Stars Matt Doyle (Broadway: Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), Tate Ellington (Broadway: The Philanthropist; Film: Remember Me), Eric Nelson (Broadway: 13), Mitch Dean (Altar Boyz), Blake Daniel (Broadway: Spring Awakening), Matt Steiner (The Acting Company's Jane Eyre), Wayne Wilcox (Light in the Piazza, TV: Gilmore Girls), and Christian Coulson (Film: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).

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