SCHOOLED Set for Soho Playhouse's Fringe Encore Series

After a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at The New York International Fringe Festival, the Soho Playhouse will present The All-Americans's production of SCHOOLED, written by Lisa Lewis and directed by James Kautz (Artistic Director of The Amoralists), as part of the Fringe Encore Series, running October 5 - 17, 2015. The Soho Playhouse is located at 15 Vandam Street between 6th Avenue and Varick Street in New York City.

Performances are Mon 10/5 at 7pm, Fri 10/9 at 9:30pm, Sat 10/10 at 7pm, Sun 10/11 at 7pm and Sat 10/17 at 7pm. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased online at http://www.SohoPlayhouse.com. The running time is 90 minutes. For more info visit http://SchooledThePlay.com.

From acclaimed storyteller Lisa Lewis and director James Kautz comes SCHOOLED, a fiercely funny and gripping new play about privilege, ambition, and the lengths we'll go to succeed. Two university students vie for a competitive grant from their roguish professor in a taut threesome that tests their romantic relationship and their ethics. A biting drama with surprising humor, SCHOOLED is a searing examination of entitlement and envy, the lies we tell ourselves, and the truths we refuse to believe.

The cast includes Quentin Maré (Broadway: Rock 'n' Roll, Coram Boy, Julius Caesar, Off-Broadway: The Castle with PTP/NYC, Sleeping Rough with Page 73), Lilli Stein (HBO's "Veep," Pentecost with PTP/NYC, Job at The Flea) and Stephen Friedrich (CBS's "Elementary," 'Tis Pity She's a Whore directed by Jesse Berger).

The production team includes Tyler M. Perry (Set Design & Props), Evan Roby (Lighting Design), Christopher Metzger (Costume Design), Jeanne Travis (Sound Design), Judy Bowman CSA (Casting), Matthew Schneider (Original Dramaturg) and Form Theatricals (General Management).

WINNER! 2015 NY International Fringe Festival Overall Excellence Award for Playwriting

Critics' Pick: "Four stars! Wised-up and whip-smart, Lisa Lewis's SCHOOLED is remarkable. An elegant, fun, seriocomic love triangle that moves smoothly and bristles with stinging lines and rich, unpredictable characters." - David Cote, Time Out New York

"Competing drives and complicated ethics fuse in Lisa Lewis's sexy and snarled SCHOOLED." - Alexis Soloski, The New York Times

"Brilliant! Questions of who has the right, or, more accurately, the privilege to make art, drive the crackling plot, as the characters lob verbal grenades at one another. SCHOOLED has the makings of one of the Fringe premieres that ends up making a mainstream splash." - Emily Shire, The Daily Beast

The New York Post noted SCHOOLED as a Fringe "Pick," and called it "A promising show at the Fringe." Metro NY called the show a "Can't-miss play" and "Best Bet" at the Fringe, and Playbill featured the play as one of the top "5 Fringe Shows That Will Get You Talking."

Best Bet: "To say this play is a near flawless literary feat is no hyperbole. The writing is witty and sardonic, and the ninety-minute production flies due to the superb dialogue, the fantastic direction, and the stellar acting." - Emily Tuckman, Theatre Is Easy

Lisa Lewis (Playwright) is a New York Times-published essayist and acclaimed storyteller. Her plays have been developed by Naked Angels Tuesdays@9, Davenport Theatricals, The New Ohio Theatre, Core Artist Ensemble, and New Helvetia Theatre's Sacramento New Works Festival, where she was an artist in residence. Her essays and profiles have appeared in The New York Times, ELLE Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, New York Theatre Magazine, and New York Press. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program, Lewis spent six years as a story analyst for New Line Cinema, Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal at Tribeca Film, and The Weinstein Company. For more information, visit http://www.LisaLewisWriting.com.

James Kautz (Director) is the creator and Artistic Director of the award-winning Amoralists Theatre Company in NYC. Under Kautz's leadership, the company has produced 15 World and New York Premieres by some of America's most visceral and celebrated playwrights including Derek Ahonen, Lyle Kessler, Adam Rapp and Mark Roberts. Through the Amoralists he has also championed the new play development of over 100 scripts. Kautz most recently directed the 2014 World Premiere of Derek Ahonen's The Qualification of Douglas Evans at Walkerspace to great acclaim. As an actor, some of his notable credits include Emily Schwend's The Other Thing and Take Me Back, Derek Ahonen's The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side, Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy and Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, and Lyle Kessler's Collision. For more information, visit http://www.TheAmoralists.com.

THE ALL-AMERICANS make the political personal with provocative, emotionally potent, character-driven stories that question how we live today. They believe in the power of theater to change hearts and minds, to move us, shake us, to entertain us... and to leave us talking long after the curtain falls.

The Soho Playhouse is accessible from the C, E train to Spring St., or #1 train to Houston St.