T.R. Knight, Aaron Tveit et al. Set for AracaWorks' Play Series

AracaWorks has announced preliminary casting for its five-day, five-play series celebrating new plays which will be presented December 6-10 at 7pm at The Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. Each evening, the group will present a reading of a new play in its Early Stages of development, for free.

The series beginsn December 6 with Greg Kotis' LUNCHTIME. Somebody's dirtying up the salad bars of New York. It'll take a dirty cop to find out who. Kotis will direct script and the reading will feature Michael McGrath, Michael Park, Matthew Maher, Betty Gilpin and Luisa Strus.

The series will also include Andrew Hinderaker's dark comedy about office politics titled SUICIDE, INCORPORATE (December 7) set to be directed by Doug Hughes and featuring T.R. Knight, Aaron Tveit, I.N. Sierros, Bobby Cannavale, Tobias Segal, and Josh Charles.

Aaron Simon Gross and Kerry O'Malley are set to appear in Catherine Trieschmann's HOW THE WORLD BEGAN (December 8), about a Manhattanite who takes a job teaching biology in Plainview, Kansas.
Lucie Tiberghien will direct Robert Zander's MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS (December 9) which looks at a nine-year-old's fantasies about becoming a cowboy. The cast will feature Chris Coffey, Kally Duling, and Jake O'Connor.

The final offering will be Ayad Akhtar's DISGRACED on December 10. The play looks at a well-off Muslim-American lawyer who has to confront what he's denied in himself. The cast for this piece, to be directed by Will Frears, will include Annie Parisse, Aasif Mandvi, Eisa Davis, and Bill Camp.

Seating is limited and reservations are suggested and may be made online at www.aracaworks.com.

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