Dysfunctional Theater Company to Present SUMMER TO YOUR HEART, Begin. 7/25

From the creators of I Shall Forget You Presently (winner - Audience Choice Award, FRIGID Festival 2014) comes Summer to Your Heart, an immersive experience based on the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Wander across the green lawn of Nolan Park to the yellow house marked 8B. Songs on the porch lead into rooms full of poetry and scenes from the life of a woman who captured love, defined feminism and shaped the 20th century.

Summer to Your Heart, presented by Dysfunctional Theater Company will play at in House 8B at Nolan Park on Governors Island. Dates and times: Saturday July 25th, Sunday July 26th, Saturday August 15th, Sunday August 16th, Saturday September 26th and Sunday September 27th with performances throughout the day beginning at 1pm and ending at 5pm. All performances are free. This production is part of Dysfunctional Theatre Company's Dysfunctional Collective, a full summer of art, theater, music and dance presented for free to the public on Governors Island as part of their OpenHouseGI program. For more information on the Collective please go to www.dysfunctionaltheatre.org. For more information on visiting Governors Island, please go to www.govisland.com.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (Poet) One of the most popular writers in her time, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay is a major figure in 20th-century American literature. Born in Rockland, Maine in 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay early on displayed the literary talents that she later became known for. She was only nineteen years old when she published one of her most famous poems, Renascence. Over the next three decades, she published poetry, plays, political writings, and a libretto for an opera set to music by Deems Taylor. She also went on cross-country reading tours and recited poetry over the radio to support the war effort. Her work was honored in 1923 with the Pulitzer Prize. In the immediate post-World War I era, Millay emerged as a major figure in the cultural life of Greenwich Village, when the Village served as an incubator of every important American literary, artistic, and political movement of the period. As part of this milieu, Millay's work and life came to represent the modern, liberated woman of the Jazz age, free of the restrictions of the past, as represented in her famous line of poetry, "My candle burns at both ends..."

ERIC CHASE (Director/Writer) is a freelance actor, director, and producer for theatre, film and television. He works regularly with Dysfunctional Theatre Company and Emerging Artists' Theatre Company, and the filmmakers at House of Nod. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association, and is a member and an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He is a fight choreographer, and periodically teaches workshops in stage combat at theatre programs and colleges He is a licensed tour guide and owns and operates the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl and its several spin-off tours (www.literarypubcrawl.com). He is on the board of directors of Literary Manhattan. Each year he donates his time to the A-T Children's Project for their annual benefit. For more information go to www.ericdchase.com

AMY OVERMAN (Director/Writer) is the Artistic Director of the Dysfunctional Theatre Company and has been producing, directing and performing with them since 2001. Previous work as a writer includes the adaptation of Dulcitius by the 10th century nun Hrosvitha, The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection Marital Bliss & Passionate Hot Romance (FRIGID New York 2009 Audience Choice & Sold Out Show awards) and a performance piece on knitting and S&M. In addition to many Dysfunctional shows, Amy has worked all around the indie theatre scene, including at The Brick and PS 122. She has a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University, is a Master Mason of The Brick and a member of the board of directors of Horse Trade.

DYSFUNCTIONAL THEATRE COMPANY is a collective dedicated to producing ensemble works that challenge the status quo without taking themselves too seriously. Its mission is to show audiences the joys of live theater, to give exposure to new playwrights and rediscover forgotten scripts of previous centuries and to provide a supportive environment for artists to grow and expand their work.