The 12th Annual Black Box New Play Festival Runs 6/4-28 At Gallery Players

The Gallery Players presents THE 12TH ANNUAL BLACK BOX NEW PLAY FESTIVAL, world premiere full-lengths, one-acts and readings showcased in festival of new plays.

You're invited this June as The Gallery Players celebrates playwrights and new works in The 12th Annual Black Box New Play Festival. Each weekend is a new experience as The Gallery Players introduces new crops of talent and celebrates its alumni, June 4th - 28th, 2009.

Full length plays open and close the festival, with two weekends of original one-acts in between. Free readings of new plays will take place Saturdays at 3pm. The lineup of world-premieres is as follows:

Box 1: Original full length play
Thursday, June 4th at 8pm
Friday, June 5th at 8pm
Saturday, June 6th at 8pm
Sunday, June 7th at 3pm

Father Mike by T.J. Edwards
Directed by Mark Harborth
Workshopped at the Utah Shakespeare Festival in 2008, Father Mike is a nostalgic comedy that takes place in 1955 in the home of a proud Catholic family.

Box 2: Original one-acts
Thursday, June 11th at 8pm
Friday, June 12th at 8pm
Saturday, June 13th at 8pm
Sunday, June 14th at 3pm

Nobody Does Carpet Like Bill by Edward Versailles, directed by Barrie Gelles
Given Our Current Fiscal Crisis by Daniel Damiano, directed by Amanda White
Unfinished Debasement by Michael Kevin Baldwin, directed by Andrew Firda
Bugs by Rich Espey, directed by Barrie Gelles
Philosophy 101 by Allan B. Lefcowitz, directed by Chad Yarborough

Box 3: Original one-acts
Thursday, June 18th at 8pm
Friday, June 19th at 8pm
Saturday, June 20th at 8pm
Sunday, June 21th at 3pm

Honey & Candy by Lauren Cavanaugh, directed by Justine Campbell-Elliott
Distastefully Yours by Denis Meadows, directed by Robin Leslie Brown
Beautiful World by Kevin Christopher Snipes, directed by Seth Soloway
Inhale by Victoria T. Joseph, directed by Taibi Magar

Box 4: Original full-length play
Thursday, June 25th at 8pm
Friday, June 26th at 8pm
Saturday, June 27th at 8pm
Sunday, June 28th at 3pm

In the Shadow of the Lighthouse by Carolina Aguilera
Directed by Dev Bondarin
In the Shadow of the Lighthouse opens in 1999 with three friends spending a week at the beach before one of them gets married and moves away. A decade later as the group convenes in the same beach house, the friends realize the cost of the choices they've made and find betrayal and loyalty in unexpected places.

Free Saturday readings:
June 6th: Candide by T.J. Edwards
June 13th: The Dog Show by David Ian Lee
June 20th: Dream Wedding by Ellen Orchid

The Gallery Players is located at 199 14th St., between 4th and 5th Aves. in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Take the F Train to 4th Ave. or the R Train to 9th Street. By car: BQE to Hamilton Avenue to 14th Street.

Where can a playwright find an outlet? Where can an audience see new works? The Gallery Players provides both of these in this Festival. Over the years of producing the Festival, we have developed works by countless playwrights, many of whom continue to work with The Gallery Players each year to incubate their new ideas. More than 300 plays have appeared in the Black Box New Play Festival since its inception and this year will bring even more writing and acting talent to the stage. Who knows what you'll discover in the Box?

The 12th Annual Black Box New Play Festival is produced by Dominic Cuskern for The Gallery Players, The lighting designer is Sarah Watson, the sound designer is Jacob Subotnick, production stage manager is Kristine A. Ayers and the associate producers are Sidney Fortner/Graham Mills.

A New York institution since 1967, The Gallery Players has served actors and audiences alike for more than 4 decades by showcasing burgeoning new talent and offering a home base for theater professionals. "New York's Best Kept Secret" is the recipient of the Off-Off Broadway Review's 2000 Award for Lifetime Achievement and their production of Urinetown! the musical won the 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical. Among its famous alumni are founding member Harvey Fierstein; Broadway regulars Nancy Anderson, Jeffry Denman and Diedre Goodwin; New York theater personality Seth Rudetsky and many others.

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