The Farm Theater to Host BULLPEN SESSIONS: PRODUCING FOR YOUR COMMUNITY, 4/5

The Farm Theater will present Bullpen Sessions: Producing For Your Community with special guests Ty Jones, Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, and Lou Moreno, Artistic Director of INTAR on Tuesday, April 5 from 6-8pm at Punto Space (325 West 38th Street). Admission is FREE, but seating is limited. Please RSVP at bullpen@thefarmtheater.org

Bullpen Sessions is The Farm Theater's bi-monthly meeting where theater professionals are invited to talk about their experience on a specific topic of interest for pre-professional and emerging artists in an intimate setting. Attendees are encouraged to ask questions, engage in open discussion, and share their experience on the topic. Bullpen Sessions will address basic questions about the industry, share best practices, and build community.

Ty Jones (Producing Artistic Director, Classical Theatre of Harlem) Under his leadership, CTH artistic programming has grown in both in scope and recognition. Mr. Jones initiated the acclaimed Uptown Meets Downtown program - comprising strategic partnerships with downtown theatres designed to build artistic bridges between communities. He also led the inaugural CTH Under the Stars, bringing free, outdoor, professional theatre to Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park for an unprecedented extended run. CTH also produces Future Classics and Playwright's Playground, a reading series that aids emerging playwrights in developing their work. Artistic Credits. Broadway: ENRON; Judgment at Nuremberg; Julius Caesar; Henry IV; CTH: The Blacks: A Clown Show; Macbeth; Emancipation: Chronicles of the Nat Turner Rebellion. Regional: Hamlet, American Shakespeare Theatre Company; Six Degrees of Separation, Baltimore Center Stage/MSC; Fences, Guthrie; One Night in Miami..., Rogue Machine. Film/TV: Annie, Tower Heist, The Taking of Pelham123, Redacted, Elementary, Smash, and the Law & Orders Series. Mr. Jones received his MFA from the University of Delaware's Professional Theatre Training Program, where he was the recipient of the Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement Award. He was named "One of 25 to Watch" in TIME OUT magazine. He is an AUDLECO, OBIE and LADCC award recipient.

Lou Moreno (Artistic Director, INTAR) Since arriving in New York in 1989, Lou Moreno has called INTAR home. He has participated in over 40 productions, workshops and readings at INTAR. Lou has worked with many of the great names of INTAR, including Max Ferra, Eduardo Machado, Maria Irene Fornés, Michael John Garcés, Nilo Cruz, and Jose Rivera. In 2005, Louis was awarded a Princess Grace Fellowship for Directing and served for a year as the Associate Artistic Director of INTAR. After leaving INTAR, Moreno became the Associate Artistic Director of the Obie Award-winning Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. At Rattlestick, he was the line producer for emerging playwrights such as Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Lucy Thurber, Noah Haidel, Lars Noren, David Grimm and Adam Rapp. He also developed the Dirty Works Lab, an initiative for the development of new plays. In September of 2008, Lou became Co-Artistic Director of Twilight Theatre Company, a group dedicated to new plays and new voices. He produced Prelude to the First Day by Ted LoRusso in collaboration with Sturgis Warner and most recently the critically acclaimed Palestine, written and performed by Najla Saïd. Morenos most recent directing credit is Drawn and Quartered by Maggie Bofill. Originally Developed in INTARs NewWorks Lab This Production was the inaugural production under his leadership. Other directing credits include Trying by Erin Browne (The Bushwick Starr); Minotaur a Romance and Beautiful both by David Anzuelo (LAByrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater); MCC Youth Festival (Manhattan Class Company); Kingdom (NYMF); End of the Line (MCC Youth Company); Rock/Paper/Scissors (New York Hip-Hop Theater Festival at the Public Theater); The Bigger Man (Partial Comfort Productions); and Blues for a Gray Sun by Nilaja Sun (INTAR).

THE FARM THEATER The name is inspired by the "farm" system of baseball whose role is to provide experience and training for developing players. The Farm Theater develops early career artists that may not have the support system afforded others, through workshops, productions, and mentoring. The centerpiece of our programming is the College Collaboration. This program in our first year developed a play that will be produced Off-Broadway in the fall of 2016, was published in Indie Theater Now, and the project was featured in an article on HowlRound. The Farm Theater since its inception has hosted Bullpen Sessions, which are free bi-monthly conversations between special guests and early career artists. Special Guests for the Bullpen Sessions have included Rajiv Joseph, Lucas Hnath, Anne Washburn, Paul Schnee, and Halley Feiffer. The Farm Theater also offers skill-building workshops throughout the year. The Farm Theater was inspired from Founding Artistic Director Padraic Lillis' twenty-five years of experience working directly with over 2,000 early career artists, developing multiple award winning new plays, and collaborating with artists working at the highest level in their field.