FringeNYC Play TURING TEST To Partner With Turing Trust
By: A.A. Cristi Oct. 01, 2018
No Future LLC, producer of the World Premiere production of TURING TEST by playwright Dominick DeGaetano at The New York International Fringe Festival, is proud to announce the production's partnership with the Turing Trust.
The Turing Trust supports the legacy of Alan Turing, the mathematician and World War II code breaker, and works to empower disadvantaged communities by using information technology-enabled learning. Turing's life was depicted in the 2015 Oscar-Winning film, The Imitation Game.
Playwright Dominick DeGaetano discussed the partnership, "We're overjoyed to partner with the Turing Trust. Alan Turing had, amongst all his admirable qualities, a great faith in the higher levels of the human spirit. It's that faith that inspired this production. I can't see a better way to honor his legacy and repay the debt I owe him than to join with the Trust and help children across the world access their potential."
The goal of the Turing Trust is to support education in sub-Saharan Africa by reusing computers and improving teacher training using information and communications technology. In addition, the Trust helps students develop technology skills in the UK while reducing waste and contributing to an environmentally friendly society.
A dollar from every TURING TEST ticket sold will go to the Turing Trust. Each dollar raised enables the trust to put a PC keyboard into a Malawian classroom. For every one hundred dollars raised, the trust is able to provide 6 PCs to African classrooms.
Alan Turing's Great Nephew & Founder of the Turing Trust, James Turing, shared his thoughts about the partnership, "The Turing Trust is delighted to work with Dominick DeGaetano and the team behind the Turing Test production. It's always inspiring to see that Alan Turing's legacy can promote such creativity whilst doing good by technology with those who need it most. The Turing Test at the FringeNYC Festival will directly enable us to give 105 Malawian students IT skills!"
ABOUT TURING TEST
TURING TEST is a riveting sci-fi thriller about life, death, and creation. A poet, on the wagon and soon to be a father, makes a deal to wipe away his debts. All he has to do is teach a young man, locked away as part of a secret government experiment, how to write a poem. But what happens when that secret no longer wants to be kept? TURING TEST is a millennial allegory for the trials of both parenting and coming of age, while also evoking the grace of making art in a fallen world.
The play was a semifinalist for the National Playwright's Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and was workshopped at the Guild Hall of Easthampton.
TURING TEST is directed by Taylor Edelle Stuart and produced by No Future LLC. The cast features Rick Busser (The Tempest/Classical Theater of Harlem), Elizabeth Chappel (Uncle Vanya/Columbia University), Finn Kilgore (MA from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), and Julie Hays (Motherless Brooklyn directed by Ed Norton).
The creative team includes lighting design by Ted Charles Brown, sound design by Dominick DeGaetano, projection design by Taylor Edelle Stuart, graphic design by Ron Hester, and stage management by Gina Hays.
In keeping with the festival spirit, this year, all audience members will meet at The FringeHUB - blue flag, 685 Washington Street (Between Charles & Perry), and will be walked to the theatre by a Fringe Ambassador. All theatres are within 3 blocks of the FringeHUB. Tickets are $22 and are available at www.turingtestfringe.com/tickets. Running time: 1:40. More info is available at www.turingtestfringe.com and www.fringenyc.org.
Dominick DeGaetano's plays have been developed at the Williamstown Theater Festival, The Tank NYC, Guild Hall of East Hampton, the Southampton Writers Conference, and the New Plays Festival at George Washington University. He studied at GWU, where he was a Dean's Scholar in Shakespeare, and Stony Brook University, where he was the first student in its MFA in Theatre. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Taylor Edelle Stuart is a New York based theatre director, projection designer, and filmmaker. She spent the last four years developing new plays with the Iowa Writer's Workshop. NYC directing credits include Over + Out, Escape Velocity (Navigators Theater Company). Taylor is also a New York Times published photographer, a finalist for the Sundance New Voices Lab, and a filmmaker.
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