Everyday Inferno Theatre Company Announces 2018 Season

Everyday Inferno Theatre Company is delighted to announce the projected lineup of productions and developmental collaborations for their 2018 season, which launches this month with the fifth annual If on a Winter's Night, an evening of staged readings directed by women and connected by the season's theme, "Going Home".

Carol Lashof's The Melting Pot, inspired by Israel Zangwill's 1908 melodrama of the same name about America's national identity, will play at The Access Theater March 16th-24th. Ms. Lashof is a playwright, educator, and producer whose work has been broadcast on BET and NPR and staged on five continents, from The Magic Theatre of San Francisco to Peking University in Beijing. The Melting Pot will be directed by Alex Keegan, whose credits includes Qui Nguyen's She Kills Monsters (Geva Fellowship / SUNY Brockport), Margot Connolly's Tough and Krista Knight's Selkie (Williamstown), Paula Caplan's Shades (Cherry Lane Theatre), and new work with The Flea, O'Neill Theater Center YPF, MCC FreshPlay, and UglyRhino,

From August 9-19th, EITC returns to Central Park's Summit Rock with a staging of Bethel Park Falls by Jason Pizzarello, which uses a series of interconnected vignettes to explore relationships amongst people and their communities. Mr. Pizzarello has developed his work at Classic Stage Company, 3-Legged Dog, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and his plays have been produced at Irondale Ensemble, HERE Arts Center, and Clubbed Thumb. Christine Zagrobelny, a company collaborator with EITC who has developed new work at Dixon Place, The Brick, and Flux Theatre Ensemble, will direct Bethel Park Falls. Credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (The Instigators), Welcome to The Fall (The Motor Company), and Jailbait (Burning Coal Theatre Company, Second Stage).

Quicksand, written by EITC Core Company Member Regina Robbins, and developed by Everyday Inferno in residence at The Access Theater, will run from September 19-29th as part of IRT Theater's 3B Residency Series. Ms. Robbins' plays include Red as Blood (Alpha NYC), Not a Dream (Six Figures Theatre), and It's Just the Radio, which won Best Playwright at the Looking Glass Theatre's Spring 2012 Forum. EITC Artistic Director, Anaïs Koivisto will helm Quicksand. She has directed for Pipeline Theatre Company, FringeAL FRESCO, Match:Lit, Seiche Productions, Spicy Witch Productions, the FRIGID Festival (Hangover Encore selection, 2014 and 2015 festivals), Looking Glass Theatre, 3V, and CORE Artists' Ensemble, and is currently in residence at The Access Theater.

Everyday Inferno's 2018 Development slate consists of four new projects, including Regina Robbins' Wuthering Heights Project, developed in collaboration with director Anaïs Koivisto. Also in development in 2018 is The Music Box, a new play by Sam Ogilvie, an EITC Core Company member and performer who has worked with New York Deaf Theatre, Red Leaf, and Spicy Witch Productions. EITC Producing Director and Co-founder Katherine Sommer will lead the ongoing development of Eric Marlin's Scenes of Ascending. Finally, EITC returns to the Access Theater with a 2017-2018 Project Residency for Sea Wife, a developmental collaboration between Anaïs Koivisto, Lila Newman, Katherine Sommer, and playwright Francesca Pazniokas. Ms. Pazniokas' plays have been produced at Source Festival, SERIALS at The Flea, and Pipeline Theatre Company. She was a 2016 Heideman Award Finalist at The Actors Theatre of Louisville, and a semi-finalist for Clubbed Thumb's Biennial Commission (NYC), Theatre503's Playwriting Award (London), and The Leslie Scalapino Award (NYC).