CYGNUS ISA SUMMER CON5T3LL4TION Set for 2015 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity

Playwright Steven Mark Tenney and Director Susan Tenney, whose play SOMETHING SUDDEN 5WEPT 0V3R ME was a success at the 2013 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity will return to the 2015 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity with their new play CYGNUS ISA SUMMER CON5T3LL4TION, with performances beginning June 20th, 2015 at Paradise Factory, Upstairs Theatre (64 East 4th Street) in Manhattan.

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious arts festival. The benefitting organization for this production is the World Wildlife Foundation.

Teich Lumen, spaceship pilot, is called upon to return a "back-up copy" of Earth to the Cygnus Star System in Steven Mark Tenney's play CYGNUS ISA SUMMER CON5T3LL4TION. En route he encounters a telepathic prodigy, the darkly shrouded Inner System Authority, a band of Cygnian artists covertly shooting an art film on Earth, two college students, and his muse.

The cast of CYGNUS ISA SUMMER CON5T3LL4TION features Lucy Albert, Rob Brinkmann, Andrew Bryce, Francesca Craft, Ivette Dumeng, Pat Galante, Thuy Ho, Brian Linden, Joel Little, Meghan Miller, Jake Ottosen, Clinton Powell, and Lorraine Tai.

The production and design team for CYGNUS ISA SUMMER CON5T3LL4TION is Steven Mark Tenney (Playwright, Co-director), Susan Tenney (Co-director, Choreographer), Topu Iyo (Composer, Musician), Mike Thies (Composer, Musician), Janet Mervin (Costume Designer), Emily Auciello (Sound Designer), and Joe Novak (Lighting Designer).

Steven Mark Tenney has written full-length plays, one-acts, and performance pieces integrating text and dance that have been produced at many venues in New York City and regionally. His work has been called "wildly imaginative and highly entertaining" by the Miami Sun Post. His play PIECE FOR AN AUDITION was a winner of the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Competition. He was recently a resident at New York Stage and Film, developing a new sci-fi opera WHAT'S APPROPRIATE ON A FIRST DATE WITH AN EARTHLING.

Susan Tenney's work has been produced by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Edinburgh International Theatre Festival, Tanglewood, Princeton University, Rider University, and in many venues in New York City. She has staged several Broadway benefits and cabarets and was for many years resident choreographer at the Williamstown Theater Festival. She has received five commissions from the Princeton Coalition for Peace Action. Most recently she was a Directing participant at La Mama's International Directing Symposium in Umbria Italy. Her work has been called "expansive, reaching, stunningly dramatic" by The Princeton Comment and "terse and elegant" by the Village Voice.

The Planet Connections Festivity is New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially conscious not-for-profit arts festival which fosters a diverse cross-section of performances. Planet Connections strives to make sure their artists are living as green as possible. Some tactics include using a "ticketless" box office with reusable tickets which will be collected from audience members as they enter the theatre and hosting a Green Theater Forum to encourage and educate artists to go "green" within their productions. This year's festival will include thirty productions, each one with its own benefitting organization.

CYGNUS ISA SUMMER CON5T3LL4TION will play the following schedule: Saturday, June 20 at 4:45pm, Friday, June 26 at 4:30pm, Saturday, June 27 at 4:30pm, Tuesday, June 30 at 7:45pm, Tuesday, July 7 at 8:45pm, and Saturday, July 11 at 4:30pm. Tickets are $18 and are available for purchase online athttps://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/946383.