Soho Rep Extends 10 OUT OF 12

In response to popular demand, Soho Rep., in association with John Adrian Selzer, extends the world premiere of 10 out of 12 by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns) to July 5. The production, which opens on June 10, reunites the playwright with the Obie Award-winning director Les Waters, Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville. In 10 out of 12, a company of theatre artists is engaged in the very peculiar-and uniquely impossible-task of making a new play. Based on notes Washburn took during her past technical rehearsals, this Soho Rep. commission is a wry and absorbing look at how work forms us and deforms us.

10 out of 12 takes place during a technical rehearsal, re-creating the multi-layered experience of designers mixing cues, backstage gossip happening over headset and actors passing the time while the director struggles to contain the uncontainable. As these activities unfold simultaneously, the audience is given an intimate glimpse into the act of theater making.

The ensemble includes Quincy Tyler Bernstine as Stage Manager, Jeff Biehl as Technician 3, Gibson Frazier as Ben/Charles, Rebecca Hart as Costume, Nina Hellman as Siget/Old Lady/Lucille, Sue Jean Kim as Eva/Marie, Bruce McKenzie as Director, Garrett Neergaard as Technician 2, Bray Poor as Sound, David Ross as Jake/Richard, Thomas Jay Ryan as Paul/Carstairs, Conrad Schott as Assistant Director, Wendy Rich Stetson as Lights and Leigh Wade as Jamie (Assistant Stage Manager).

The creative team includes David Zinn (sets), Justin Townsend (lights), Bray Poor (sound), Ásta Bennie Hostetter (costumes), George Hoffmann & Greg Kozatek (props); and Amanda Spooner (production stage manager).Performances of 10 out of 12 will now take place through July 5 (see schedule above) at Soho Rep. Critics are welcome as of Wednesday, June 3 for an official opening of Wednesday, June 10 at 7:30pm. Soho Rep. is located at 46 Walker Street in Manhattan. General admission tickets for the original run (May 26 - June 21) are $35 and can be purchased by visiting sohorep.org or calling 212.352.3101. $30 general rush and $20 student rush (valid school ID) tickets are available at the box office one hour prior to curtain for each performance, no advance sales. Tickets for the extension (June 23 - July 5) are $50/$75. $0.99 Sunday tickets will be offered on June 7 and 14 at 7:30pm and are available first come, first served at the box office only. $0.99 Sundays for 10 out of 12 are sponsored by Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman and TheaterMania.

Funding for this production is provided, in part, by the Venturous Theater Fund of the Tides Foundation. 10 out of 12 is a Soho Rep. commission made possible, in part, by Joe Robertson.

FEED Humanities Events

In conjunction with performances of 10 out of 12, Soho Rep.'s FEED Humanities will present a series of workshops and talks surrounding the production. All events are free, open to the public and run approximately 40 minutes.

A Life as a Stage Manager
June 4th, following the performance
Moderator Anne Washburn and stage managers Amanda Spooner (10 out of 12, An Octoroon, Marie Antoinette) and Matthew Melchiorre (Coram Boy, Light in the Piazza, Westport Country Playhouse) discuss what it means to be a stage manager.

A Life as a Lighting Designer
June 9th, following the performance
Moderator Anne Washburn and lighting designers Justin Townsend (10 out of 12, Here Lies Love, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) and Tyler Micoleau (The Invisible Hand, The Fortress of Solitude, Good Person of Szechuan) discuss what it means to be a lighting designer.

Bray Poor's Sound Design Masterclass
June 15th, 7-8:30pm, free
10 out of 12's sound designer Bray Poor discusses and demonstrates how to create complex soundscapes, like the one at the heart of 10 out of 12.

Unsung Heroes of the Theatre!
June 16th, following the performance
Moderator Anne Washburn speaks to props artisan Faye Armon (Fun Home, The River); hair and makeup designer Amanda Miller (films: Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle, Soho Rep.'s Marie Antoinette); actor and former box office manager Michael Cyril Creighton (Playwrights Horizons' Stage Kiss, The Debate Society); and T.J. D'Angelo, senior usher of Broadway's Walter Kerr Theater.

About the Artists

Anne Washburn's plays include Mr. Burns, The Internationalist, A Devil at Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides' Orestes. Her work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, London's Gate Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, DC's Studio Theater, Two River Theater Company, NYC's Vineyard, and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Whiting, a Guggenheim, a PEN award, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Machiqq, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P.

Obie Award-winning director and Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Les Waters recently directed Lucas Hnath's The Christians, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Will Eno's Gnit, Todd Almond's Girlfriend and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night at Actors Theatre. Waters also previously directed Big Love by Charles L. Mee at the Humana Festival in 2000, and the site-specific production of Naomi Iizuka's At the Vanishing Point, a play about Lexington photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard and the community of Butchertown, at the 2004 Humana Festival. From 2003 to 2011, he served as Associate Artistic Director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In the last 10 years, his shows have ranked among the year's best in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time Out New York, Time and USA Today. His productions have been seen in New York at The Public Theater, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Connelly Theater and Clubbed Thumb, and regionally at theatres such as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and American Repertory Theater. In 2009, he made his Broadway debut with In the Next Room or the vibrator play. He led the M.F.A. directing program at University of California, San Diego from 1995 to 2003 and is an associate artist of The Civilians.