Over 70 Short Plays from Caridad Svich, Neil LaBute and More Slated for AFTER ORLANDO Series in Response to Pulse Shooting

Missing Bolts Productions and NoPassport Theatre Alliance, in association with Daryl Roth, announce AFTER ORLANDO, an international theater action comprised of more than 70 short plays written in response to the tragic shooting at Pulse Nightclub on June 12, 2016, and the growing devastating history of gun violence in the United States and worldwide.

AFTER ORLANDO readings will take place internationally through January 31, 2017. Upcoming readings are scheduled in New York for Sundays at 8pm: November 13 & 20, 2016 and December 4 & 11, 2016 at the DR2 Theatre (103 East 15th Street). Each of these readings will be followed by a themed talkback focused on four topics: Art & Activism, Gun Control: The State of the Nation, LGTBQ Community & Hate Crimes, and Art & Terrorism. For more information, including international dates and locations, visit afterorlandoplays.com.

Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director of the National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, will direct the readings at the DR2 Theatre, each with a different cast.

Playwrights participating in After Orlando at the DR2 Theatre include: Oladipo Agboluaje, Deborah Asiimwe, Mia Chung, J. Julian Christopher, Cecilia Copeland, Migdalia Cruz, Nathan Alan Davis, Erik Ehn, Andy Field, Lindsey Ferrentino*, Mark Gerrard, Jacqueline Goldfinger, Garret Jon Groenveld, Dipika Guha, Jeremy O. Harris, Amina Henry, Rose Helsinger*, Israel Horovitz, Zac Kline, Neil LaBute, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Jacqueline E. Lawton, David Lee*, Joan Lipkin, Jessica Litwak, Anders Lustgarten, Matthew Paul Olmos, Jennifer Maisel, Rohina Malik, Oliver Mayer, Winter Miller, Viet Nguyen*, Giovanni Ortega, Monica Palacios, Katie Pearl, brian james Polak, Brian Quijada, Ian Rowlands, Madeline Sayet, Stephen Sewell, Crystal Skillman, Dave Solomon, Arturo Soria, Saviana Stanescu, Caridad Svich, Jordan Tannahill, Korde Tuttle, Sung Rno, Anne Rumberger, Ken Urban and Leah Nanako Winkler. (*denotes playwrights from Orlando)

Tickets ($50 - $75) to After Orlando can be purchased at ticketmaster.com. All proceeds from After Orlando will go to Pulse of Orlando, a non-profit created in response to the Orlando attacks on June 12, 2016, to reach out with expeditious allocation of funds for the victims, survivors and families of the Pulse tragedy; to recover through local survivor navigation and advocacy; and to rebuild Orlando. Visit pulseoforlando.org.

Plays featured in After Orlando will subsequently be published in a volume by NoPassport Press.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Wendy C. Goldberg (Director) is in her 13th season as the Artistic Director of the National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and has spent the last 20 years leading the foremost programs in the development, direction and the production of new works for the American Theater. At The O'Neill, under Goldberg's tenure, the company was awarded the 2010 Regional Tony Award, the first play development and education organization to receive this honor as well as the National Medal of Arts from the White House. Wendy's work as Artistic Director is featured in the book The O'Neill: The Transformation of Modern American Theater, published by Yale University Press. Goldberg has overseen the development of more than 90 projects for the stage. This season, several O'Neill projects will be seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally and in London.Wendy's directing credits include multiple productions for Arena Stage, Denver Center, Goodman, Guthrie, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Signature, Center Stage, Alliance, Playmakers Rep, Philadelphia Theater Company and Paper Mill Playhouse and Off-Broadway, including work at the DR2. As Artistic Associate at Arena Stage for five seasons, Ms. Goldberg helped to create the theater's new play initiatives and led them from their inception through 2005. American Theatre magazine has described her as "one of the most promising theater artists working today." She is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan (BA) and holds a MFA in Directing from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television where she received the distinguished alumni award in 2014. Wendy has served on the SDC Executive Board for 11 years, is a guest faculty member at the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Yale School of Drama. She teaches annually with The Commercial Theater Institute through the Broadway League and is currently working on several new plays, one will make its Broadway debut next season.

MISSING BOLTS PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is an independent production group devoted to new work for stage and screen. Missing Bolts presents big stories in little moments - plays and films that are heartbreakingly human, that reject artifice and show humanity at its smallest and fullest. Founded by co-artistic directors Blair Baker and Zac Kline, Missing Bolts' work closely examines characters searching for the missing pieces in their lives and strive to show real people who are on the journey from lost to found, believing that the most fascinating aspects of life and art are the moments in-between moments. Past work includes the award-winning film Pauline, The Hour of All Things by Caridad Svich and several productions and workshops of new plays in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. missingbolts.com

Blair Baker (Co-Artistic Director, Missing Bolts Productions) is an actor currently understudying two lead roles in the Tony -winning play The Humans by Stephen Karam on Broadway. Other theatrical credits include: Bus Stop (Kansas City Rep, dir. Steve Cosson); The Footage (The Flea Theater); David Mamet's Oleanna (Bristol Riverside Theatre & standby Broadway premier); and many readings and workshops, including The Public Theater, The Civilians, Women's Project, National Jewish Theatre and many more. She teaches acting at the MN Studio. blairbaker.info

ZAC KLINE (Co-Artistic Director, Missing Bolts Productions) is a playwright and award-winning filmmaker. His play What are we going to do about little brother? featured as part of 24 Gun Control Play has been read and performed across the United States and Australia. Other work has premiered at the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival; Prospect Theatre Company; FronteraFest/Hyde Park Theatre (Austin); The New Group/Lifestories Ensemble and many other theatres. His film Pauline has screened at festivals around the country. He is currently developing Spring and Fall, a modern family drama with a live rock score.

NOPASSPORT THEATRE ALLIANCE & PRESS (Producer) is a theatre alliance and press devoted to live, virtual and print action, advocacy and change toward the fostering of cross-cultural and aesthetic diversity in the arts with an emphasis on human and environmental rights theatre actions. It was founded in 2003 by theatre-maker Caridad Svich. NoPassport Press' Dreaming the Americas Series and Theatre & Performance PlayTexts Series publishes new writing for live performance, texts on theory and practice and theatrical translations. Among its titles are works by David Cale, Lenora Champagne, Kia Corthron, Migdalia Cruz, Rinde Eckert, David Greenspan, Carson Kreitzer, John Jesurun, Todd London, Adele Edling Shank, Octavio Solis and more. nopassport.org

Caridad Svich (Founder, NoPassport Theatre Alliance and Press) received a 2012 OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement, a 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and NNPN rolling world premiere for Guapa, and the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits, based on Isabel Allende's novel. She has won the National Latino Playwriting Award (sponsored by Arizona Theatre Company) twice, including in the year 2013 for her play Spark. She has been short- listed for the PEN Award in Drama four times, including in the year 2012 for her play Magnificent Waste. She is the author of over 40 plays; among her key works are 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls, The Hour of All Things, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel). Her works have been produced by venues across the US and abroad, among them Ensemble Studio Theatre, 59E59, The Women's Project, Woodshed Collective, Repertorio Espanol, Denver Center Theatre, and Edinburgh Festival Fringe Assembly Rooms. Her works are published by TCG, Smith & Kraus, Backstage, Intellect Ltd UK, Seagull Books, Manchester University Press, Playscripts and Broadway Play Publishing. She has edited several book on theatre including Audience Revolution and Innovation in Five Acts (both for TCG, 2016 & 2015). She sustains a parallel career as a theatrical translator, chiefly of the dramatic work of Federico Garcia Lorca. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge,UK), and founder of NoPassport Theatre Alliance & Press. caridadsvich.com

Daryl Roth (Associate Producer) holds the singular distinction of producing seven Pulitzer Prize- winning plays: Anna in the Tropics; August: Osage County (2008 Tony); Clybourne Park (2012 Tony); How I Learned to Drive; Proof (2001 Tony); Edward Albee's Three Tall Women; and Wit. The proud recipient of ten Tony Awards and London's Olivier Award, her over 100 award-winning productions include: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony, 2016 Olivier); Absolute Brightness; Buyer & Cellar; Caroline, or Change; Curtains; A Delicate Balance; The Goat or Who is Sylvia (2002 Tony); The Humans (2016 Tony); It Shoulda Been You; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Normal Heart (2011 Tony); Shuffle Along; Sylvia; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; A View from the Bridge (2016 Tony); War Horse (2011 Tony); Wiesenthal; and The Year of Magical Thinking.

The producers wish to express their gratitude to the Performers' Unions: ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear on this program.