NEW YORK MADNESS Slates 2017 Lineup at The Kraine Theater

The May edition of New York Madness will take place on Sunday, May 28 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).

The lineup will include Jenny Lyn Bader (The Jackson Heights Trilogy with Theatre 167; Flight with Turn to Flesh Productions), David Adam Gill (Providence at Roy Arias Stages), Nico Grelli (PHRxEAK with Rebel Verses Festival; Atlantic Pacific with Red Shirt Entertainment), Penny Jackson (Safe at 14th Street Y Theater; I Know What Boys Want with Ego Actus), Lindsay Joy (The Rise and Fall of a Teenage Cyberqueen with LabRats Theater Company; In the Event of My Death with Stable Cable Lab Co), Philip Smith (Princess Grace Award finalist for Biological Tick), Joy Tomasko (Tiny Box Theater at Figment NYC), Kathleen Warnock (How to Get Married in Five Steps and 17 Years; The Further Adventures of... at FringeNYC), and Joshua Young (Who Mourns for Bob the Goon? at HERE Arts Center; Father-Daughter at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity).

Theatre 167 (curators Ari Laura Kreith and Jenny Lyn Bader) will co-produce the May edition of New York Madness and choose this month's theme.

New York Madness is a raw and unpredictable show of short plays by an ensemble of playwrights presented fully staged with scripts in hand. They write a short play and cast it, rehearse it, and bring it in on its feet. The collected works create a kaleidoscope of cultural moments reflecting this moment in time, framed by a theme that is chosen just one week in advance of the show. The primary goal of Madness is the exploration of modern American Playwriting through the use of theatrical storytelling.

New York Madness takes place every last Sunday of the month at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). Tickets ($10) may be purchased in advance at www.horseTRADE.info.

Theatre 167 is a multilingual, multicultural ensemble dedicated to creating imaginative, deeply collaborative plays that investigate our cultural complexities. Named for the number of languages spoken in the world's most diverse neighborhood, Theatre 167 now brings work inspired by cultural collisions, intersections, boundaries and borders to audiences in three boroughs, four states and two continents. We experiment with form and process to create work that authentically reflects personal, social and cultural experience-and that invites dialogue and community building across cultural divides.

Past productions include The Jackson Heights Trilogy-167 Tongues, You Are Now The Owner of This Suitcase, and Jackson Heights 3AM-collectively written by 18 writers, featuring 37 actors playing 93 roles in 14 languages; Antu Yacob's Mourning Sun, which premiered in New York and toured to the Kampala International Theatre Festival in Uganda this winter; and J.Stephen Brantley's Pirira, which transferred off-Broadway and received the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play. The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation has also honored Theatre 167 with the Caffe Cino Fellowship Award, given to an independent theatre company that consistently produces outstanding work. Currently, the company is touring Watched, an adaptation of Marina Budhos' novel exploring the impact of surveillance on Muslim-American communities, and developing a commissioned piece for Queens Theatre. This July, Theatre 167 will present the world premiere of Tina Howe's Singing Beach at HERE Arts Center. Visit www.theatre167.org for more information.

FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade is a theater development group with a focus on new work that produces a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater every season. FRIGID's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. FRIGID New York grew out of the annual FRIGID Festival, the first and only festival of its kind in New York City to offer artists 100% of their box office proceeds, and Horse Trade Theater Group, a self-sustaining theater development and management group.