New Georges & Women's Project to Remount A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER in 2015

New Georges will remount their critically acclaimed production of Kate Benson's A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes directed by Lee Sunday Evans in association with Women's Project Theater, January 12-February 7 at City Center Stage II (131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues). Performances will be 1/12-1/17, 1/20-1/24, 1/27-1/30 & 2/3-2/7 at 7:30pm, 1/17, 1/24, 1/25, 2/1 & 2/7 at 2:30pm, 1/31 at 8pm and 2/6 at 3pm. Tickets ($35-$45) are available online at www.nycitycenter.org or by calling 212.581.1212.

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A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes was developed in The New Georges Jam, a "performance gym" for early-career playwrights and directors. The play originally premiered in May 2014 as part of the New Georges Jam On Toast play festival at Dixon Place. Great Lakes is Kate Benson's first produced play.

KATE BENSON (Playwright) is a writer and actor living in Brooklyn. Her plays include A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes, produced by New Georges in 2014, [PORTO], Lee Miller, and Radium Now. She is a member of The New Georges Jam and the 2014-15 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, and she is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program. She is the recipient of the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. She has had readings and showings of her work at Dixon Place, 13th St. Theater, Jimmy's No. 43, and The Room at New Georges. As an actor, she has appeared at The Public, NYTW, The Flea, PS 122, the Incubator, and LaMama.

LEE SUNDAY EVANS (Director) is a director and choreographer. As the resident director for CollaborationTown, she has directed The Play About My Dad, The Deepest Play Ever, The Momentum, and Family Play (1979 to Present). Other recent productions include: So Go the Ghosts of Mexico, Part ll by Matthew Paul Olmos (Sundance Theatre Lab), God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz (Juilliard), All Girls by Anna Greenfield (Horse Trade), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Cyrano de Bergerac (Waterwell/PPAS). Her work has been presented and developed at: 59E59, Sundance Theater Lab, The New Ohio, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Culture Project, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, Dixon Place, LaMama, Emerging America Festival/Huntington Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Coatesville VA Medical Center. With CTown, she is currently developing a new musical for New Victory's LabWorks commissioning program. Time Warner Fellow of 2014-2016 Lab at Women's Project Theater, Lincoln Center Director's Lab, New Georges Affiliated Artist. BFA: Boston University.

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