Fire This Time Festival to Present Camille Darby's LORD'S RESISTANCE, 1/22-31

For the first time in The Fire This Time Festival history Season Five will feature a fully realized production of a full-length play, Lord's Resistance, by Season Two playwright Camille Darby, directed by Christopher Burris. The production will play six performances at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) January 22-31, Wednesday through Friday at 7:30pm. Tickets ($15) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

Life is good for the Whitakers until their adopted son--a former child soldier--arrives from Uganda to his new home in the suburbs of Chicago. As the two worlds collide, he is yet again a victim and perpetrator of a war just as damaging as the one he escaped.

CAMILLE DARBY (Playwright) is thrilled to be a part of TFTT festival for the third consecutive season. Her play, Exodus was produced in the sold-out 2011 TFTT showcase. Darby was born in Jamaica, West Indies, but migrated to New York City with her family at 6 years old. Her constant attempts at adjusting to American culture, she soon discovered, were best manifested through her writing. It was her first play Mother, May I?, written as a high school student during the Theatre Development Fund's Residency Arts Program, that drew the attention of acclaimed playwright, Wendy Wasserstein. With Wasserstein as her mentor, Camille continued to study theatre, literature and film at Sarah Lawrence College where she received her B.A. in 2005. Darby is the recipient of the Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO, 2008) playwriting prize from the Bronx Council on the Arts for her full-length play Lords Resistance. The play was part of the 2012 Fire This Time Festival reading series, and was presented at the 2013 National Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Darby is a 2011 finalist for the Van Lier Fellowship program at The Lark Play Development Center, and a 2012 Women's Project Lab finalist. She holds an M.F.A (2007) in Dramatic Writing from New York University's, Tisch School of the Arts.

CHRISTOPHER BURRIS (Director) New York directing credits include Kevin R. Free's A Raisin In The Salad: Black Plays For White People, which was a FringeNYC 2010 hit. He also directed Dennis A. Allen IIIís The Mud Is Thicker In Mississippi, a winner in the 2010 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. He has directed several short plays for Sticky at the Bowery Poetry Club, including Falling Out With Gregarian Tunks, A Shadow With No Form, Lifeis Terms, ...In Which Bishop Eddie Long Loses His Battle With The Demons, and Gaga Of the Dead. In addition to a series of staged readings for Freedom TRain Productions, (including Derek McPhatter's Bring the Beat Back) he has directed numerous projects for Phare Play, Unconscious Collective, and The Fire This Time Festival (Exodus; By the Banks of the Nile). He holds a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill, and an MFA from UC San Diego.