Sarah Steele, Matt Dellapina Join Gotham Stage Company & Slant Theatre Project's THE CLOUD, 6/17

Gotham Stage Company's third installment of the new play series will be co-presented for the first time by Slant Theatre Project. Launched in 2011, the SPRINGBoard reading series exists to nurture new plays and to provide opportunities to both early and mid-career theatre artists. Past featured playwrights have included Carrie Barrett, Randall David Cook, and Ethan Lipton.

Previous Springboard readings this season included The Fiancé by Emily Bohannon read by Marylouise Burke, Kelli Giddish, John Behlmann, Dierdre Madigan, and Michael Raymond; as well as Hillary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath read by Reed Birney, William Jackson Harper, Danielle Slavick and David Ross.

The final play in the series will be The Cloud by Matt Moses. Directed by Wes Grantom, The Cloud is a mistaken-identity comedy about lovers who exchange passwords and impersonate each other online. It explores changing notions of privacy and intimacy in the age of social media, conjuring up a theatrical space in which all the www is a stage. The four-character comedy will feature Sarah Steele (Slowgirl, Speech and Debate), Matt Dellapina (Dream of the Burning Boy, The Tutors), Lee Aaron Rosen (The Big Knife, Gabriel) and Nancy Lemenager (Movin' Out, Chicago). Reading will take place on Monday, June 17th at the D-Lounge below the Daryl Roth Theatre in Union Square at 7:00 PM.

For reservations RSVP to: slanttheatreproject@yahoo.com.

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