Hook & Eye Theater Presents GOD IS A VERB, Now thru 11/21

Hook & Eye Theater presents the World Premiere of GOD IS A VERB, an absurdist comedy inspired by the mind and myth of architect and designer Buckminster Fuller. The production, directed by Chad Lindsey (The Summoners with Hook & Eye) will run tonight, November 4, through November 21 at The Actors Fund Arts Center @ The Schermerhorn (160 Schermerhorn Street between Hoyt and Smith Streets, Brooklyn).

Performances will be Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7pm and Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm with matinee performances on November 7, 8, & 15, and an additional performance on Monday, November 16 at 7pm. Tickets ($25) are available at www.artful.ly/godisaverb. The show will run approximately 100 minutes.

GOD IS A VERB is an engaging and urgent portrait of a world - and a man - on the brink. In the summer of 1969, an eccentric professor gathers a team of offbeat academics to play a game with one goal: make the world work for all humanity. What unfolds tears spacetime as we are whisked from a beatnik cafe to a treetop congressional hearing and back by way of a university telephone. As the clock ticks, the lines blur between the game and the real world and we wonder if we've detached from reality altogether.

The cast features Cynthia Babak, Roger Casey, Jamie Effros, Hannah Hartmann, Carrie Heitman, Elizabeth London, Sade Namei, Jacob Trussell, and Renee Wilson with Set Design by Ryan Howell, Costume Design by Krista Intranuovo, Lighting Design by Christopher Weston, Projections by Weston G. Wetzel, with Composer Diarmid Flatley and Dramaturg Colin Mannex. The production will be Stage Managed by Leah McVeigh.

GAVIN BROADY (Playwright) Gavin's work has appeared at the Weston Playhouse, the Playwrights Horizons Residents Workshop and elsewhere. As a journalist he's covered everything from international environmental litigation to high school wrestling, and he currently works as a media strategist with a global civil rights organization.This is his second full-length collaboration with Hook & Eye, following 2014's The Summoners.

CHAD LINDSEY (Director) is an actor, director, and artist based in New York. He holds a BA in music from Valparaiso University. He is the co-artistic director of Hook & Eye. On his way to becoming a theater director, he danced with modern dance companies, apprenticed with a furniture designer for six years, won a snow sculpting contest, choreographed a ballet or two, was in a boy band, mowed lawns, and spent a decade facing himself on the packaging of hair-spiking gel. Chad directed Hook & Eye Theater's The Summoners (2014). Recent performances include: Standartenführer in Barry Manilow's Broadway World Award-winning Harmony at the Ahmanson (LA), Classic Stage Company's Midsummer (NYC), Pig Iron Theatre's Obie Award-winning Chekhov Lizardbrain, and Liz Swados' Kaspar Hauser at The Flea Theater in NYC. Chad's film credits include: It's Complicated, Girls will be Girls (Sundance), Straight Jacket, Totally Sexy Loser, and Caught. On television he has co-starred or guest starred on Unforgettable (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS), Royal Pains (USA), The Beautiful Life (CBS), How I Met Your Mother (CBS), One Life to Live (ABC), and many others.

HOOK & EYE THEATER is an ensemble company of theater-makers, actors, dancers, musicians and artists based in Brooklyn, NY. Founded in 2010 by Carrie Heitman and Chad Lindsey, the company uses a unique collaborative method to craft totally new theatrical pieces full of joyful athleticism, soul, and song. They believe in heavy cross-pollination among disciplines and use an extended creative process, which they believe yields memorable theater. The Core Members teach playwriting at New York's Professional Performing Arts School, and offer free PlayLabs where new work is brought forward, built and developed. Hook & Eye's performance history includes Unlawful Gatherings, an original play about hoarding and the Velvet Revolution; Fidgital Spring, a rhapsody of movement and mobile devices done in homage to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, (performed at the Figment Project on Governors Island, the Stampede Lab at the Chain in L.I.C, and Muffins in the Window at the COW). Their most recent piece, The Summoners, an impressionistic flipbook of modern small-town America, ran in January 2014. Work continues on two new full-length pieces, Wander/Lust and GOD IS A VERB, which opens on November 4th, 2015. The mission of Hook & Eye is to build inspiring and inquisitive theater productions to embolden audiences of every age. They are committed to compensating artists for their work, and offering low-or no-cost tickets to audiences and students.

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