PULP VERITE to Receive Judson Memorial Church Magic Time Reading

Pulp Vérité, after being awarded a 2015 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission (from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute) and being named a 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, will be read at Judson Memorial Church as part of their 2017 Magic Time reading series on January 18th. Doors open at 55 Washington Square South at 7:15pm. Free drinks and eats until the show at 8pm.

More about Judson Arts Wednesdays here: http://www.judson.org/arts/#art

ABOUT THE ART
Joy, a graduate filmmaker, returns to the U.S. after having escaped from Syria to reunite with her friends in PULP VÉRITÉ, a film collective gathered in Cape Cod. But she soon discovers her friends are planning the impossible: to bring Joy's sister, still a captive with ISIS in Syria home. But little do they know Joy's return brings with it a shocking revelation that unravels their carefully crafted narrative. And time is running out ... Full of theatrical imagination, PULP VÉRITÉ plunges head first into a world full of war and social media.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Crystal Skillman is the award-winning author of the plays Geek, Cut, and King Kirby (co-written with Fred Van Lente). Her new plays include: Rain and Zoe Save the World (2016 New Harmony Project, 2016 Oregon Performance Lab), Pulp Vérité (2015 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission, 2016 BAPF Finalist), Open featuring Megan Hill (All for One Solo Theater Company's 2016 Season), and Another Kind of Love, a punk rock play (Chopin Theater with InFusion Theatre Co., 2015, Chicago). She is the musical theater book writer of Mary and Max, and The Cover, both with award winning ASCAP Composer/Lyricist Bobby Cronin.
http://www.crystalskillman.com/

Shaun Peknic has served as Associate Director for Once. Recent directing credits: Manifest Pussy (Joes Pub); The Birds/The Receptionist (Cortland Repertory Theatre); I'm A Lot Like You (Salty Brine's Spectacular Living Record Collection); Pulp Vérité (2015 Lee Strasberg Institute Directing Fellow); Sherlock Holmes & the West End Horror (Cortland Repertory Theatre, nominated Best Director 2015 SALT Awards); A Snowfall in Berlin (Nylon Fusion Theatre Company); Must Be The Music (ArsNova); A Streetcar Named Desire (New York University). Shaun is a member of SDC, and Musical Theatre Factory, an alumnus of NYU and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and teaches directing at NYU. PULP VÉRITÉ was awarded a 2015 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission and received a student production at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. The play was named a 2016 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, and read as a part of Project Y Theatre's 2016 Women in Theatre Festival. Special thanks to The Lark for supporting this play's development.

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