The Return of ATHENA by Gracie Gardner at JACK

ATHENA is back by popular demand for a limited time only! Catch The Hearth's production of Gracie Gardner's "fierce and lovely comedy" (The New York Times) -- a Critic's Pick in its debut at JACK this past winter.

Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers, and training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends.

?Alexis Soloski, The New York Times: "Hugely appealing. . .It's important and a little heartbreaking to see playwrights and producers deciding that stories about the awful, wonderful, completely ordinary business of growing up in a woman's body are worth telling. I'm so glad to see these plays now."

DATES:
Wednesday, September 5 at 8 pm
Thursday, September 6 at 8 pm
Friday, September 7 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 8 at 3 pm & 7 pm
Sunday, September 9 at 3 pm
Tuesday, September 11 at 8 pm
Wednesday, September 12 at 8 pm
Thursday, September 13 at 8 pm
Friday, September 14 at 8 pm
Saturday, September 15 at 3 pm & 7 pm
Sunday, September 16 at 3 pm

LOCATION: JACK | 505 ½ Waverly Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238 | C or G train to Clinton-Washington

TICKETS: $25 general, $18 under 30 (www.jackny.org or 866-811-4111, or cash only at the door)

Written by Gracie Gardner
Directed by Emma Miller
Produced by The Hearth
Performers - Julia Greer, Abby Awe and Carolyn Kettig
Set by Emmie Finckel
Lighting by Victoria Bain
Props by Jess Cummings
Sound by Z Worthington
Associate Sound Design Valentine Monfeuga
Costumes by Dara Affholter
Fight Direction by Ryan Bourque
Stage Manager Hanako Rodriguez
Assistant Stage Manager Katherine Deal
?Public Relations - Emily Owens

Gracie Gardner (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based writer. She is a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theater's Obie-winning group Youngblood and she's the recipient of the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award. Her work includes Panopticon (Clubbed Thumb Biennial Finalist), Pussy Sludge (HERE Arts Center), Spa Play (Bridge Residency), Primary (Project Playwright Award), Ballgirl (Queens Theater), IndianapolisAlyssa1985 Is Getting Married (Dixon Place), Very Dumb Kids (Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Commission), Human Resources (James E. Michael Award), and Manning Manning Manning (Horn Gallery Grant). She has a Manhattan Theater Club Sloan Foundation Commission and she is a Space on Ryder Farm resident. Other work has been seen at The New Group, Williamstown Theater Festival, Two Headed Rep, Hearth Gods, the High Line, Naked Angels, Tripeg Lobo, SubCulture, the Kraine Theater, Mason Holdings, the Flea, Adaptive Arts, Tiny Rhino, the Secret Theater, 24 Hour Plays: Nationals, the Tank, and the Brick. She is also a member artist at Less Than Rent. Her work has been published by Samuel French and the Dionysian. Upcoming readings include the Old Vic, the American Conservatory Theater of San Francisco, Geva Theatre Center, the Goodman, the Huntington, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Studio Theatre, On the Verge, Adjusted Realists, the Wilma Theater. She's also developing a television show with director Tom McCarthy and Anonymous Content. She aspires to have an English bulldog and name him Hank, if that's what his personality seems like.

Emma Miller (Director) is a director, writer, and educator. Her work has been seen at JACK, Queens Theatre, The Tank, Dixon Place, Playwrights Downtown, The Bridge Residency, Lucid Body House, Cincinnati Fringe/KNOW Theatre, and Kenyon College. Emma received the Thomas Turgeon Memorial Prize for Achievement in Direction twice for her work on A Steady Rain and Gidion's Knot, and was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for her direction of For Annie. She is co-artistic director of The Hearth and is an alumna of Kenyon College and of the National Theater Institute - Advanced Directing. emmamillerdirector.com

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