Dark Day Players to Present LATE NIGHT LECTURE SERIES at Harvard University

The Dark Day Players will present LATE NIGHT LECTURE SERIES at Harvard University on Saturday, April 9th at 9 p.m.

Put on your f***ing thinking caps, class is in sesh. The Dark Day Players present LATE NIGHT LECTURE SERIES, a show in which audience members become students in an unconventional lecture class.

Each LNLS focuses on one ridiculous mystery topic that is revealed at the start of the show. Throughout the class, audience members learn real facts about this topic delivered by an eccentric cast of professors, guest speakers, and T.A.'s whose personal lives slowly start to infiltrate their teachings. Students may be asked to participate at any moment throughout the lecture. Any moment. Don't be tardy.

Featuring performances by Russell Sperberg, Jacob Dysert, Jamie Watson, Oliver Demers, Patrick Sweeney, and created by Duncan Gregory.

For tickets, visit latenightlectureharvard.brownpapertickets.com. The show takes place at Harvard Science Center, Lecture Hall A, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138. For more information, visit www.darkdayplays.com.

The Dark Day Players strive to bring life to an otherwise empty stage. We delicately blur the line between rehearsed theater and improvisation, and in the process redefine what it means to engage with your audience, embrace the stage, and supply truth and honesty through instinctual performance. We attempt to challenge ourselves as artists, to discover something from nothing, and most importantly, to play.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Duncan Gregory is a young theater artist in New York City. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A in Film & Television and minored in Producing. In college, Duncan was a member of the premiere comedy groups, Hammerkatz and Dangerbox, as well as Shakespeare in the Square. Since graduation he has started his own company, The Dark Day Players, who specialize in blending performance with an actor's intuition. He hopes to continue to create innovative theater as a producer, director, writer and actor.

Emily Moler is a Brooklyn based director and administrator. She serves as the Social Media Manager of the Bushwick Starr, Artistic Associate of Heartbeat Opera, and Co-Artistic Director of Dark Day Players. She recently assisted Ellie Heyman on LongYarnand Michael Leibenluft on I'll Never Love Again, both at The Bushwick Starr. Directing credits include Play Vol. I+II (Dark Day Players) and Charlie Brecht (TinyRhino). In May she graduated from Skidmore College, where she served as the General Manager of the Skidmore College Theater Department, directed the seminar Black Box production ofThe Penelopiad, and was the recipient of the Margaret Ellen Clifford Memorial Prize. Emily is originally from Westford, Massachusetts.

Russell Sperberg is a New York City based actor. New York: Versailles 2016 (This Is Not A Theatre Company / En Garde Arts), R & J & Z (Hard Sparks / New Ohio), Punk As Fuck (Everyday Inferno Theatre Company), Given The Present... (En Garde Arts BOSSS Festival 2015), Here We Dance (Green Sparks). London: Cymbeline (BADA / Oval House). Harper Joy Theatre: Eurydice, The Drunken City, The Tempest, The Altruists, Floyd Collins, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It. Film: Occupy Elm Street (No Name Brand Films). Education: Whitman College, British-American Drama Academy, Primary Stages. Russell has participated in readings and workshops with New Dramatists, The Bushwick Starr, The Tank, NYU, and The Bechdel Group. He is a proud founding member of The Dark Day Players. See more at russellsperberg.tumblr.com

Jamie Watson is a student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in her third year of training at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where she performs lots of Shakespeare and serious things.You can also catch her being weird with NYU's improv team, Dangerbox!

Patrick C. Sweeney is a recent graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Patrick studied at the Experimental Theatre Wing and Stonestreet Studios. He is a founding member of Dark Day Players, and is absolutely thrilled to see this venture start to take off. While at NYU, he was president of Tisch's premiere improv troupe After School Special, and most recently appeared as Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome at the Experimental Theatre Wing. He is currently working on Tubular, a devised musical that will be appearing in early May at the Kraine Theater.

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