Horse Trade Theater Group and The Management Announce YOUR BOYFRIEND MAY BE IMAGINARY, 4/5-28

*Appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association. 

 

The production, presented by Horse Trade Theater Group and The Management will run April 5-28 at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Ave A), Thursday through Saturday at 8pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.  

 

Larry Kunofsky (Playwright) is a NYC-based playwright whose play The Un-Marrying Project, about a protest movement devoted to legalizing same-sex marriage in New York City, was produced last April (with Purple Rep), before same-sex marriage was made legal in New York State. He makes absolutely no claim whatsoever towards helping this social movement move forward, but is delighted that his play has now become a "period piece." He hopes to tour that show, so look for it in other states around the country. His ongoing play-cycle-in-progress,The Genesis Tapestries is a multiple-play-cycle inspired by The Book of Genesis. Other plays include My Therapist, a monologue play for forty-five actors; The Cat Person, a two-hander, with live cats; "Oh, Magic Bag…" about a bag of porn possessed by demons;bender/gender/straight/&neutered, a play-cycle on the ever-changing nature of sexuality; Vicky Victim, about vicious office friendships among women; Social Work (a nightmare), about health care, race, and Internet dating; and The Worst Person In The Whole Entire World Of All Time Ever, which is about everybody's mom. He has been a three-time winner of the John Golden Award for Drama and a resident at the Edward Albee Foundation. His work has been excerpted in the 2009 editions of The Best Men's and Best Women's Stage Monologues and Scenes, published by Smith & Kraus, and his full-length play What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends – an anti-social comedy, will be published by Playscripts later this year. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and the Artistic Director of Purple Rep, a small, independent theatre company devoted to building a repertory company of playwrights.

 

MEG STURIANO (Director) Recent directing highlights include Cut by Crystal Skillman; Lonesome Winter by Joshua Conkel and Megan Hill;Ugly by Josh Beerman (workshop reading); Joe Tracz's Song For a Future Generation; Joshua Conkel's Sinking Hearts: Episode One for the 2010 HOT! Festival; the world premier of Julia Brownell's Extraordinary Circumstances; Dorothy Fortenberry's Caitlin and the Swan (The Management, AD); Joshua Conkel's I Wanna Destroy You for EST's Bloodworks '09; Pia Wilson's End of the World for New Perspectives; and her own adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges. Meg studied theater at Connecticut College, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, the Lee Strasberg Institute, and the Moscow Art Theatre School. She holds an MA in English Literature from Hunter College. Currently, Meg teaches and directs at Hunter College High School in Manhattan and at Acting Manitou in Maine. 

 

THE MANAGEMENT creates a haven for a community of artists and patrons to experience relevant, moving, unpretentious, aesthetically and financially accessible theater. We are known for our dark whimsy and critical exposés on American culture, while building rock-solid, visceral entertainment. Previous productions with Horse Trade include: The Chalk Boy, The Scandal! (2009 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominee for Outstanding Short Script), Caitlin and the Swan, MilkMilkLemonade (New York Press Best Off-Off Broadway Show of 2009; 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Actress, Jennifer Harder), Song for a Future Generation, Lonesome Winter, and Cut (New York Times Critics Pick) 

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater.  Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.