F*It Club to Continue Series of Short World Premiere Plays at IRT Theatre

F*It Club, the New York Innovative Award-winning film and theatre company, continues its annual series of short, commissioned world-premiere plays at the IRT Theater as part of their 3B Development Series in Manhattan's West Village with The Spring Fling: Crush, six new short plays by Kevin Artigue (The Forcings), Stephanie Del Rosso (Flee), Catya McMullen (Everything is Probably Going to be Okay), Seth Moore (Seawife), Gregory S. Moss (Billy Witch), and Ariel Stess (Heartbreak).

Performances will be Thursday, April 28th through Sunday, May 8th with Wednesday through Saturday night performances at 8pm and Sunday matinees at 2p. Tickets are $18 and available at brownpapertickets.com and at the door. IRT Theater is located at 154 Christopher Street, 3rd Floor, in New York, NY. For more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/effitclub.

Designed to showcase high-quality, brand-new ten-minute plays, The Spring Fling offers emerging and established playwrights the chance to develop their work with the support of professional directors and designers and a cast of exceptionally talented New York artists. This annual series presents simple, writer-centric productions that add to the canon of thematically rich, complex and original ten-minute plays. Previous Spring Fling playwrights have included Brooke Berman, Hilary Bettis, Lucy Boyle, Bekah Brunstetter, Jon Caren, Matthew Lee Erlbach, Halley Feiffer, Kate Gersten, Jason Grote, Ashlin Halfnight, Elizabeth Irwin, Nick Jones, Greg Keller, Anna Kerrigan, Krista Knight, Victor Lesniewski, Caroline V. McGraw, Janine Nabers, Isaac Oliver, Erica Saleh, Sarah Sander, Heidi Schreck, Mark Schultz, Mark Sitko, Tommy Smith, Daniel Talbott, Joe Tracz, Lauren Yee, and Anna Ziegler. The Spring Fling series has been nominated for a total of ten New York Innovative Theatre Awards and won two consecutive years.

KEVIN ARTIGUE is a playwright and filmmaker. He is a current member of the Public Theater's 2014-2015 Emerging Writers Group. His play THE MOST DANGEROUS HIGHWAY IN THE WORLD was featured at the National New Play Network's 2014 National Showcase of New Plays. The play will premiere with Golden Thread as part of their 2015-2016 season.

His plays have been performed and developed with Theatre of NOTE, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Yale Cabaret, Iowa New Play Festival, Golden Thread, and the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, where he was a Core Apprentice. A graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Kevin was awarded a Provost's Visiting Writer Fellowship at the University of Iowa, where he taught creative writing. Film: Holy Ghost People (2013 SXSW Film Festival), Resistance (short).

With writing and producing partner Joe Egender, Kevin created FOUND AND LOST PRODUCTIONS, an independent film production company.

STEPHANIE DEL ROSSO's plays include Flee (Judson Memorial Church, 2016), Mean Well (Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks Reading Series), Listed (semi-finalist, Bay Area Playwrights' Festival), Mix Tape (semi-finalist, Clubbed Thumb's Biennial Commission), and Reverse/Loop/Repeat (Off the Rails Festival). She has been a finalist for the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers, a semi-finalist for Page 73's Playwriting Fellowship, and a writer-in-residence at Caldera Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal. In addition to membership in the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, she is a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early-Career Writers' Group, Blood Piñata. Stephanie has led creative writing classes and workshops in New York, Chicago, Central Oregon, and at Northwestern and Yale University, and currently teaches high school students at the education non-profit Legal Outreach. She is also a mentor at Girls Write Now and an editor at The Brooklyn Rail.

CATYA MCMULLEN is a Brooklyn-based playwright and comedian. Her short play, Missed Connection won the 37th Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival, was directed by Leslye Headland and is published by Samuel French. She is the author of five full length plays (The Collective, Rubber Ducks and Sunsets, Everything is Probably Going to be Okay, AGNES!, and We Pray to Elephants) along with numerous shorts. She is a member of EST Youngblood, a company member of The Middle Voice Theater Company; the apprentice company of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the octo-group at the claque, and is the Educational Director for Ground UP Productions. She was a finalist for the City Theater National Award for Short Playwriting and is the Creator of the WE ARE ANIMALS series, a quarterly variety show series she writes with Scott Klopfenstein of the Gold Record selling band Reel Big Fish, where she raps under her rap alias "Chihuahua Fancy." She has been produced or developed work with The Middle Voice Theater Company (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), EST/Youngblood, the PIT, the LARK, Naked Angels, The Flea Theater, Rising Phoenix Rep, The Estrogenius Festival, Manhattan Repertory Theater, the TRUF, The Shelter, Ground UP Productions, Ugly Rhino, ESPA at Primary Stages and UNC Chapel Hill's Department of Dramatic Art. BA UNC Chapel Hill Dramatic Art, Creative Writing

SETH MOORE is an actor/playwright living in New York City. Seth has had his plays produced in Michigan and Cincinnati, as well as New York. His play, Jonesin' was produced by The University of Michigan as part of their mainstage season while he was still an undergraduate; it subsequently won The 2008 McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting, the Naomi Saferstein Literary Award, and The Avery Hopwood Award for Drama. In 2009 his play The Man With American Skin also received the McIntyre Prize and The Avery Hopwood Award for Drama (a record shared only by Arthur Miller). The Man... received a workshop at New York Theater Workshop and was later produced as a part of The Araca Project in 2012. Wolf Inside, a radio thriller, was produced at WNYC's Greene Space as a part of the program Blind Fear. Seth was the co-founder of Prophet in your Pocket, which creates poetry-inspired devised pieces, incorporating multi-media, puppetry, spoken word and mask. They performed in NY as well as the Midwest. Other Writing: Seawife (Naked Angels), Catch. (Cincinnati Fringe); China Town Is Full of Rooms (Blue FireProd); Ghosts In the Tapestry (in development);#serials@theFlea (Multiple Plays). As an actor, Seth is a frequent collaborator with Ed Iskandar and his company, Exit Pursued By A Bear, as well as a former Bat at the Flea Theater.

GREGORY S. MOSS is a writer, educator and performer from Newburyport MA. He holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Brown University's Literary Arts Program. His work has been presented by Soho Rep, Steppenwolf, The A.R.T., La Comédie-Française, EST-LA, Clubbed Thumb, Capital T Theatre and South Coast Rep, among others. His plays include Indian Summer, punkplay, Reunion, Billy Witch, House of Gold, sixsixsix, and others. His work has been published in Play: A Journal of Plays, n+1, and by Playscripts and Overlook Press. He is currently working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons and Woolly Mammoth. In collaboration with composer/lyricist Joe Iconis, he's creating a new musical based on the life and work of Hunter S. Thompson for La Jolla Playhouse and Broadway Across America.

Gregory is a 2012 MacDowell Fellow, an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb, a member of SPACE at Ryder Farm's inaugural Working Farm writers group, a Playwrights Center Core Member, and the recipient of a 2010-2011 Jerome Fellowship and a 2011-2012 McKnight Fellowship. Recent World premiere of "I Promised Myself to Live Faster": A Queer Space Opera in the Decadent Style, with Pig Iron Theater Company, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Spring 2015; Reunion at South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa, CA (Best New Play of 2014, OC Weekly and StageSourceLA); La Brea, Clubbed Thumb, NYC; punkplay at Capital T Theater, Austin, Texas; Workshop of House of Gold at La Comédie Française, Paris (winner, Prix du Public), and production at EST-LA (LA Times and LA Weekly Critics' Pick). Upcoming: Indian Summer, Playwrights' Horizons, May 2016; Untitled Hunter S. Thompson Musical, La Jolla Playhouse 2017.

ARIEL STESS is a playwright, director, and performer. She received her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. She's written, directed, and produced iterations of: Protector (Little Theatre staring Maxwell Cosmo Cramer and Milo Cramer); He Ate Quietly into the Wall (Page 22), Larger and Larger (Uncanny Valley), Heartbreak (New Georges' The Room), Larger Objects (The Observatory Room), and The Lock and Door (Barbes). Other plays: Highlights in Hollywood (directed by Sarah Rasmussen; Weasel Festival 2011); Prowlers in the Night (directed by May Adrales; Bard College 2008), I'm Pretty Fucked Up directed by Kip Fagan (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks June 2014) and Heartbreak (Bushwick Starr May 2015). She has developed her plays/presented readings at Dixon Place's Works-in-Progress Series, The Lark, Little Theatre, and the Bushwick Starr. Ariel is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a New Georges 2013-14 Audrey Resident, and a resident artist at Mabou Mines. Ariel is a member of the Falcons Emerging Writer's Group at Clubbed Thumb. She teaches at NYU and Brooklyn College. Her short stories, Sparrow and Swimming Car were published in The Brooklyn Review (2010, 2011).

F*IT CLUB (Allyson Morgan, Executive Director) is an award-winning New York based company of film and theatre artists which produces short plays, short films, and short-term events. F*It Club is committed to providing equal opportunity for all of its members. We hope to build both a home and a community for artists to share, grow, and create. Our company was founded with the goal to provide access and opportunity. We say "f* it" to waiting for opportunity to knock. We are seizing opportunity and making it ours. We want to make work and we want to make it NOW.

IRT THEATER is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT's mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work. Some of the artists we have supported include Young Jean Lee, Reggie Watts, Mike Daisey, New York Live Arts, terraNOVA Collective, Immediate Medium, The Nonsense Company/Rick Burkhardt, CollaborationTown, Rady&Bloom,Thomas Bradshaw, Crystal Skillman,Tommy Smith, May Adrales, Katt Lissard, Erica Fay and many others. For info visitwww.irttheater.org. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Office of Councilmember Corey Johnson and The Nancy Quinn Fund, a project of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York(A.R.T./New York)