Fresh Fruit Festival, Between the Seas and More to Hit The Wild Project This Summer

Summer at the Wild Project promises festivals featuring LGBT narratives and contemporary Mediterranean culture in NY, the remaining two production of Clubbed Thumbs' annual SummerWorks and a pair of solo plays that explore the trial by fire of growing up:

Clubbed Thumb's SUMMERWORKS 2013
Produced by Clubbed Thumb
Performance schedule: See individual shows
Tickets are $18; Students $15
Flex passes available: Any 3 shows for $39
The OBIE Award-winning Clubbed Thumb's annual summer festival of new plays! The festival features three fully mounted new plays that each run for a total of nine performances.

The remaining SUMMERWORKS 2013 shows are:

Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 16
PHOEBE IN WINTER by Jen Silverman, directed by Mike Donahue
With Gerry Bamman, Christopher Ryan Grant, Bobby Moreno, Chris Meyers, Chinasa Ogbuagu and Jeanine Serralles
All performances at 8 PM
No performance on Tuesday, June 11
The Creedy brothers trickle home from the war but knock knock! There's someone at the door looking for payback and your place at the table.

Friday, June 20 - Sunday June 29
LA BREA by Gregory S. Moss, directed by Adam Greenfield
With Bill Buell, Crystal Finn, Rebecca Henderson, and Gabriel King
All shows at 8 PM
No performance on Monday, June 24
Two 'Masshole' siblings, amid a Hollywood vortex of strip malls and scientologists, square off over how to live like a grown-up.

COMING SOON

Friday, July 5
THE GROWN FOLKS TOUR
Performance schedule: Friday at 7:30 PM
Ticket price: $10
Engaging audiences through spoken word and theater, The Grown Folks Tour features two solo plays that explore and examine what it means to grow up, love and become yourself. SHE THINK SHE GROWN is a journey of learning how to grow up without getting ahead of yourself. In FOR THOSE WHO PRAY IN CLOSETS, Isaiah is a 22-year old man who, by day, is a quiet church boy. But by night, he is a budding drag princess trying to hide his relationship with the pastor's son.

Wednesday, July 8 - Sunday, July 21
FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL
Schedule TBD
Ticket price TBD
The 11th -annual FRESH FRUIT FESTIVAL, a celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts and culture, comes to the Wild Project. The annual smorgasbord of LGBT performance features solo performances, readings, one act plays, ten-minute plays, full-length dramas, music, comedies and a look at what is new in internet video. Highlights include Kellie Dunham and Gene Murphy's QUEER MEMOIRS, where queer writers, poets, and storytellers weave stories on the topic of "ashes" into an interlocking pattern of queer lives and experiences; and Duncan Phlaster's ST KRISTIE, a look at Christianity and religious myth.

Monday, July 22 - Sunday, July 28
BETWEEN THE SEAS
Schedule varies
Ticket price $20
The annual festival celebrating contemporary Mediterranean culture in New York returns to the Wild Project. Highlights of this year's eclectic programming include: the Arab-Hebrew Theater of Jaffa in their newest production of EYES, a theatrical musical journey based on the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish; the North American premiere of REDSHIFT, a Kafka-esque new play by critically acclaimed Greek playwright Yiannis Mavritsakis; and SUITE CAMUS a Germany-France-Algeria collaboration led by the Brooklyn-based composer Andreas Arnold, a multimedia concert celebrating the writer's centennial. As in its previous two editions, the festival will feature again a strong program of contemporary dance with choreographers from Israel, Turkey, Portugal, Italy and the US.

All performances are at The Wild Project (195 E. 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B).
Tickets can be purchased from OvationTix on 212.352.3101 or online at www.thewildproject.com
The Box Office opens one hour prior to curtain.