GLEE CLUB Plays As Part Of The Antidepressant Festival At The Brick, Begins 6/7

The eight misfit members of Romeo, Vermont's glee club are on the verge of meltdown after their soloist makes the disastrous decision to save his own life. Will they be ready in time for the big recital? And isn't music the most important thing? GLEE CLUB is a comedy about singing. Singing makes people happy.

GLEE CLUB, written by Matthew Freeman. Music by Stephen Speights. Lyrics by Matthew Freeman and Stephen Speights. Directed by Kyle Ancowitz. Featuring: Bruce Barton*, Robert Buckwalter, David DelGrosso*, Michael Colby Jones*, Gary Shrader, Stephen Speights, Tom Staggs*,and Matthew Trumbull*. Produced by Blue Coyote Theater Group and The Brick Theater.

GLEE CLUB will play as part of The Antidepressant Festival, June 5-July 4 at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union and Lorimer). Performances: Sunday June 7th, at 2pm, Friday June 12th at 10pm, Saturday June 20th at 5pm and Sunday June 28th at 3pm. Tickets ($15) are available through www.theatermania.com (212-352-3101 or toll-free: 1-866-811-4111).

KYLE ANCOWITZ (Director) is a founding member of Blue Coyote Theater Group. Directing credits with Blue Coyote include premieres of Matthew Freeman's THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE, THE GREAT ESCAPE, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR (Brick Theater's Pretentious Festival Award Winner), WHAT TO DO TO A GIRL THE WHITE SWALLOW and WHEN IS A CLOCK; Kristen Palmer's DEPARTURES and SOMETHING DECENT, BRILLIANT TRACES; WANDA'S VISIT; THE AUTHOR'S VOICE; NEBRASKA; PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS; KINGFISH; DIMLY PERCEIVED THREATS TO THE SYSTEM; A PHONE CALL FROM WASHINGTON STATE, LATE AT NIGHT; and SATURDAY WITH MARTIN. Former directing resident at Playwrights Horizons. Technical Director for Access Theater. Graduate of Dartmouth College.

Matthew Freeman (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and Emerson College graduate. His plays include THE DEATH OF KING ARTHUR, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR, THE MOST WONDERFUL LOVE and WHEN IS A CLOCK. Freeman's work has been published by Playscripts, Inc., Smith & Kraus, NYTE and Samuel French. Freeman maintains the blog "On Theatre and Politics" at matthewfreeman.blogspot.com

The press raves about Matthew Freeman:

For The Most Wonderful Love

"Talk about taking a cleaver to the Cleavers. The mid-American family at the heart of Matthew Freeman's fearless new satire, "The Most Wonderful Love," is decidedly fractured when the play begins. By the time it's over, a complete dismemberment has been performed...as savage as any slasher film."

Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

For When is a Clock

"...there's a monologue that deserves to be enshrined in some kind of hall of fame: it's savvy and preposterous and utterly original...appealingly abnormal..."

Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times

For An Interview with the Author

"It's smart and hilarious, which won't surprise Freeman's fans; it's also, apart from its obvious parody of the central notions of pretentious theatre in general and this festival in particular, a devastating satire of the current culture of introspection and self-flagellation."

Martin Denton, www.nytheatre.com