SOMEWHERE SAFER to Have World Premiere at FringeNYC, 8/11-23

FAMOUS Explorer Productions has announced that that SOMEWHERE SAFER by LAUREN FEREBEE, directed byDeborah Wolfson, and produced by JENNIFER SOMERS KIPLEY and YVETTE KOJIC will be premiering in the 2013 NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL.

A bomb goes off in New York City. The course of nine lives and a nation are irrevocably changed. Sifting through the pieces of the past and the future, Somewhere Safer's provocative story examines questions of polarization, citizenship and idealism in modern America. This fast paced and fiercely intelligent play was the inaugural recipient of Square One development with On the Square Productions and was twice featured as part of the company's Write Angle Reading Series. It was also a finalist for the 2012 Old Vic/New Voices Playwrights' Exchange, and featured in Flux Theatre Ensemble's 2013 Have Another series. Atmospheric and evocative, Somewheredigs into the serious and timely questions America faces today about what kind of nation we can and should be, and who will lead us there.

Appearing in the cast are Jamie Askew (Theatre: Escheton Cabaret, The Seagull, The Tempest) Adriana DeGirolami (Film: Drinking Games, Proposals, Theatre: The Exit Interview, The Suitcase), Joshua Everett Johnson (Workshops: Aaron Sorkin's THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION, ) Russell Jordan (Theatre: Dash, Antigone, C in a Modest Suggestion), Terra Mackintosh (Theatre:The New Hopeville Comics, TV/Film: SMASH, The Ordained), Brian Morvant (Theatre: Mother Courage, Screen Play, TV/Film:Delocated, Guiding Light), Raushanah Simmons (Theatre: In the Red and Brown Water, Ajax in Iraq, TV/Film: The Other Woman, Do No Harm, Law & Order: SVU), Thomas F. Walsh (Stage: A Cherry Orchard, Borderline, FaceSpace, Film/TV: A Beautiful Mind, Days of Our Lives), and Patrick Woodall (Theatre: Red, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, upcoming Film: The Normal Heart).

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online 24 hours or more prior to the performance via the Fringe website www.fringenyc.org, or in person at FringeCENTRAL for $15. Tickets may be purchased on the day of the show at The Connelly Theater located at 220 E 4th street (Fringe Venue #6) for $18.Performance dates and times are Sunday, August 11 at 4:15; Wednesday, August 14 @ 3pm; Saturday, August 17 @ 1:45pm; Tuesday, August 20 @ 9pm; Friday, August 23 @ 7:30pm. Run time is approximately 2 hours.