NY Madness Announces Guest Playwright Adam Szymkowicz to Play The Kraine Theater

The June installment of New York Madness will take place on Sunday, June 25 at 8pm at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery). The lineup will include new plays by Featured Guest Playwright Adam Szymkowicz (Clown Bar with Pipeline Theatre; Hearts Like Fists with Flux Theatre Ensemble), along with Cecilia Copeland (Kilroy's List Honorable mention for Light of Night and R Culture), Ben Ferber (For the Lulz at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Let's Play Play at The Brick), Nicolo Grelli (PHTxEAK with Rebel Verses Festival; H.H. with FullStop Collective), Judith Leora (The Cookie Fight at Bristol VAlley Theatre; Heart-Shaped Uterus with MadLab), Jessica Moss (Modern Love at the Next Stage Festival; Polly Polly at Edmonton Fringe), Madhuri Shekar (In Love and Warcraft with ALLIANCE THEATRE; A Nice Indian Boy with Rasaka Theatre Company in Chicago), and Josh Young (Who Mourns for Bob the Goon? at HERE; Father-Daughter with Planet Connections).

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.

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. www.horseTRADE.info