Less Than Rent Theatre Presents PUSSY SLUDGE by Gracie Gardner as Part of SANCTUARY at HERE Arts Center

Less Than Rent Theatre, known for caffeinated, hard-edged indie theatre, is proud to present Pussy Sludge, a new play written by Gracie Gardner as part of SANCTUARY. Pussy Sludge will run February 10th, 11th and 12th at HERE Arts Center. Tickets are currently on sale at www.lessthanrent.org.

Dominique is menstruating crude oil. She lives in a swamp. She's in love with Courtney, but her mother prefers RJ. No one knows who knows what's best. Pussy Sludge is a tender exploration of questioning authority, suspending shame through intimacy, and very bad advice.

Gracie Gardner's work has been developed and seen at Naked Angels, Mason Holding, the Flea, Hearth Gods, Adaptive Arts, Tiny Rhino, the Secret Theater, Dixon Place, Less Than Rent, 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, the Workshop Theater, YES NOISE, Collaborative Arts Mobility Project, and Core Artist Ensemble. Her play Primary won Sanguine Theatre Company's 2016 Project Playwright Award and premiered at IRT Theater in April 2016. Her cabaret play IndianapolisAlyssa1985 Is Getting Married was workshopped at Dixon Place and premiered at the WorkShop Theater (MITF) in 2015. She's a member of Project Y's Playwright Group and an alum of the Tank's TV Pilot Development Group. She currently holds a writing residency at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) and is the winner of James E. Michael Award for Playwriting from Kenyon College.

The cast features Becca Ballenger (Masterwork's Midsummer), Sebastian Beacon (Taking Woodstock), Josephine Huang (The Great Recession), Rachel B. Joyce (Our Town at Green-Wood Cemetery), Dominique Salerno (FringeNYC and United Solo winner for The Box Show), RJ Vaillancourt (The Real Actors of NYC), and Adam Weppler (Puppet Hamlet), and Courtney Williams (The Tear Drinkers). It will be directed by Skylar Fox (An Annotated History of the American Muskrat).

The performance schedule is as follows: Friday February 10th at 8:30pm, Saturday February 11th at 8:30pm, and Sunday February 12th at 4:00pm and 8:30pm

Tickets for Pussy Sludge are available by visiting www.lessthanrent.org, www.here.org, at the box office, or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets are $20.

Less Than Rent Theatre has been producing caffeinated remixes of classics since 2010. LTR has produced eleven full-length plays since, as well as over a dozen readings and workshops. Their work has been seen at HERE Arts Center, La Mama, 59E59, Walkerspace, Theatre Row, Horse Trade Theater Group, The Wild Project, The Brick, Theater for the New City, Dixon Place, and The Gene Frankel. In addition to multiple FringeNYC and United Solo awards and NYIT nominations, they were named Indie Theater Now's "People of the Year" in 2013. For more information visit www.lessthanrent.org.

SANCTUARY is a pop up venue at HERE which will feature performances by traditionally marginalized voices, housed in an eclectic atmosphere that draws upon the rich visual legacy of Activist and Counter-Culture spaces. Most curtain times will be at 8:30pm. HERE is located at 145 Sixth Avenue, enter on Dominick one block South of Spring Street.