POST TRAUMATIC SUPER DELIGHTFUL Begins Tonight at FRIGID New York

Can there be laughter in the healing process after sexual assault? That's the question Antonia Lassar, the playwright/performer behind 2013 FRIGID Festival Favorite God Box and the 2014 hit FRIGID show Tina and Amy, is asking in her new solo show Post Traumatic Super Delightful.

Opening tonight, February 18th, at The Kraine Theater, Post Traumatic Super Delightful is a one-woman/half-clown/half-monologue/all-feminist critique of the sexual assault crisis on college campuses. The play weaves together the lives of survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders into the story of a community struggling to heal after assault. Through clowning, the show surpasses the victim/villain dichotomy and welcomes an open-hearted conversation about healing.

Playwright/performer Antonia Lassar is joined by director Angela Dumlao (award-winning director in the 2014 EstroGenius Festival; assistant director of Naked Angels' SeaWife), dramaturg Kati Frazier (Former Literary Director of All For One; playwright of Patronage, Fall 2015 at Random Access), scenic and costume designer Sam Garcia (Glutton For Punishment, EstroGenius Festival; dramaturg for STEIN-DRAG at Target Margin Theater Lab), lighting designer Darielle Shandler (Assistant Production Manager for The Civilians' Pretty Filthy), stage manager Olivia Hull and production assistant Molly Jones.

After being developed in All For One Theater's SoloLab and Works in Progress Series to an overwhelming audience response, Post Traumatic Super Delightful is making its world premiere in The FRIGID New York Festival. Following the festival run, Post Traumatic Super Delightful moves on to The Zeteo Church in Houston, The Edmonton Fringe Festival, and a tour of college campuses and crisis centers nationwide.

This team of collaborators behind the play is coming together to shatter the mold survivors are forced to fit into and explore how assault affects an entire community. Rape doesn't happen in a vacuum. How is everyone hurt by one assault? Is it safe to laugh together? Can laughter create connection? Who is accountable? In Post Traumatic Super Delightful, the personal is political, the political is personal. And the person is a clown.

Post Traumatic Super Delightful is in The FRIGID New York Festival at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003) Feb 18 at 10:30pm, Feb 21 at 5:00pm, Feb 24 at 8:50pm, March 4 at 5:30pm, and March 6 at 8:30pm. Tickets are $16 and are available at www.FRIGIDnewyork.info. Please visit www.PTSDtheplay.com for more information.

BIOGRAPHIES:

Antonia Lassar (Playwright and Performer) - Antonia Lassar is first and foremost a Beyonce enthusiast. She is also an actor, poet, playwright, and musician. Antonia spends some of her time touring her other one-woman show God Box around the country to engage great people in interfaith dialogue. As a playwright, Antonia believes that silence is the food of oppression, and her projects aim to dismantle hatred with communication, humor, and understanding. Past work includes Tina and Amy (Frigid Festival 2014), Pair of Animals (Edmonton Fringe 2014), and On the Tracks (Boston University). Antonia has a BFA from Boston University and is based in Jersey City with her super hot boyfriend and her Netflix account. antonialassar.com

Angela Dumlao (Director) - Angela Dumlao is a queer Filipina-American director and theater artist dedicated to new work, non-realism, and intersectionality. Directing: Say My Name: A Benefit Concert for The Trevor Project (Upcoming at Davenport Theatre); Glutton for Punishment (EstroGenius Festival, Best Director Award); Between (Gallatin Arts Festival); boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (Molly Thacher Kazan Memorial Prize), The Vagina Narrative, 8: the Play by Dustin Lance Black (Vassar College Theater). Assistant directing: SeaWife by Seth Moore and The Lobbyists (Naked Angels). Angela is a graduate of Vassar College and a former Powerhouse Directing Apprentice. She lives in Harlem with her snapback collection. angelacdumlao.com

Kati Frazier (Dramaturg) - Kati Frazier is a playwright, dramaturg, and theater administrator from North Carolina, now based in New York City. She has a deep artistic interest in magical realism, non-linear timelines, and queerness in every sense of the word. She has been the dramaturg for Florida Studio Theatre's Burdick Reading Series, curator of AFO's first annual SoloLab, and Literary Director of All For One Theater. Her plays include: Virtue Of Fools, The Last Year, 15 Feet: A Story Told From A Distance, The Couch, and Patronage, premiering at Random Access Theatre this fall. katifrazier.alturl.com

Sam Garcia (Scenic and Costume Designer) - Sam Garcia is a scenic designer, dramaturg and playwright living in Brooklyn. Some of her recent designs include, Glutton for Punishment (EstroGenius Festival), Hedda Gabler (Assistant, Capitol Stage), and boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (Vassar College). Recent dramaturgical work includes, STEIN-DRAG (Target Margin Theater Lab), and The Rez Sisters (Molly Thacher Kazan Memorial Prize). She has a passion for collaborative work that involves non-realism and intersectionality.

Darielle Shandler (Lighting Designer) is a Virginia native based in Manhattan and holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Drew University. Recent credits: Assistant Production Manager for Pretty Filthy (The Civilians), Crew and Follow Spot Operator for Sorry Robot (PS122's COIL 2015). Light Design for RCulture (IRT Theatre); Assistant Light Design for My Stubborn Tongue (XO Feminist Productions); Build Crew and Light Programmer for The Sound of Music (Mill Mountain Theatre); and director of and tigers. at Drew University. In 2013, her original play Don't Make It Weird premiered in Portland, Maine (Deering High School). She is a freelancer for The New Ohio Theatre.

Olivia Hull (Stage Manager) has been flying by the seat of her pants as a stage manager for small, student-run theatre companies for five years. She is known as a jack-of-all-trades (mainly because she tells people that's what she is) with a love of solving problems, striking sets, and eating guacamole. She surprisingly knows very little regarding pop-culture from the late 90's and early 00's. Her biggest shame? Not knowing what boy band Justin Timberlake comes from -- she could Google it but that's not the same as knowing. littlelifelettersblog.com

Molly Jones (Production Assistant) is an alum of BU's College of Fine Arts and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In addition to PTSD, Molly is a member of Rhapsody Collective and Lucky 11 Productions. She is thrilled to be surrounded by such a talented and intelligent team!