Pipeline Theatre Company to Present Andrew Farmer's THE GRAY MAN at Walker Space, 9/24-10/18

Pipeline Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Andrew Farmer's haunting play The Gray Man, September 24-October 18 at Walker Space (46 Walker Street between Broadway and Church Street). Performances will be Wednesday through Sunday at 8pm with additional performances on Saturday at 5pm and Tuesday, October 13 at 8pm. Early bird tickets ($20) will go on sale August 20. Regular ticket sales ($25) will begin September 3. Tickets will be available for purchase online at www.pipelinetheatre.org. The show runs approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.

The production will be directed by Andrew Neisler (Clown Bar) and feature Tahlia Ellie, Daniel Johnsen, Katharine Lorraine, Claire Rothrock, and Shane Zeigler. The production team will include Lighting Design by Christopher Bowser, Costume Design by Daniel Dabdoub, and Scenic Design by Andy Yanni with an original score by Composers Mike Brun and Chris Ryan. Produced by Natalie Gershtein with Production Manager Joshua Shain and Stage Manager Kristy Bodall.

The Gray Man isn't real. He's a ghost story, a boogeyman mothers make up tales about to keep their children safe. A grieving young man named Simon listens to these bedtime stories outside his apartment window and yearns to leave the city he's so afraid of. But when he meets a little girl with an old soul who speaks of missing children, Simon can't help but feel trapped in his tenement house, where a familiar shadow waits in the darkness.

ANDREW FARMER (Playwright) is a playwright, actor and storyteller based in New York. Written work includes The Gray Man (HERE Arts, dir. Andrew Neisler), The Fall of Hotel Mudafier to the Toltecs (Williamstown Theater Festival, dir. Annie Tippe), Our Farm (Fresh Ground Pepper, dir. Andrew Neisler) and Hands (Best New Play 2006, Southeast Theater Conference.) With composer Andrew Butler he has written Blessing (commissioned by the Playwrights Horizons Theater School), Finn the Fearless (Ars Nova, Theatre Aspen, dir. Kent Nicholson) and a new musical commissioned by TheaterWorksUSA based on The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. He's a member of Ars Nova's Uncharted musical development program and a recipient of their Project Residency through his written and performative work in I Heard Sex Noises: A Glimpse at Gardening On Roosevelt Island. Recent performance credits include Clown Bar (The Box, dir. Andrew Neisler) for which he received a New York Innovative Theater Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor, The Universe Is A Small Hat (dir. Sarah Benson) and Bull's Hollow: Part I (Ars Nova, dir. Andrew Neisler). His storytelling has been featured on F@*k! I'm In My Twenties, New York Magazine's The Cut and Mara Wilson What Are You Afraid Of? He currently teaches playwriting at NYU's Playwrights Horizons Theater School.

ANDREW NEISLER (Director) is a Georgia-raised, Brooklyn-based theatre artist and director. Recent directing credits include NY Times' Critics Pick Clown Bar (The Box, Pipelne Theatre Company) and Drama Desk nominated Charlatan (Ars Nova). He is currently under commission at Ars Nova developing Bull's Hollow, a trilogy of theatre and music, with frequent collaborators playwright Jaclyn Backhaus and composer Mike Brun. And in development with writer/composer Cesar Alvarez on his new musical The Elementary Spacetime Show. He has worked on new plays with Naked Angels, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, HERE Arts, The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and more. Upcoming projects include The Gray Man (Pipeline Theatre Company) and a collaboration with Spring Street Social Society. He is a co-Founder/co-Director of the arts development group Fresh Ground Pepper (fgpnyc.com) and a Teaching Artist at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School/NYU. He is a member of the Ars Nova Director's Troupe, and an alumnus of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and the Civilians R&D Group. He was the 2014 Director-in-Residence at Ars Nova.