Hangar's Pilot Reading Series Continues With THE MOURNERS’ BENCH, 11/14

The Hangar Theatre's Pilot Reading Series in NYC continues with The Mourners' Bench, a new play by George Brant. The reading is Monday, November 14th at 7:00pm at One-on-One Studios, 34 W 27th St. 11th Floor (between Broadway & 6th Avenue) and will be directed by Sanaz Ghajarrahimi.

The Mourners' Bench is described as an emotional puzzle-play that skips through time following three owners of a suburban living room haunted by tragedy, and their struggle to overcome a shared dark history.

The cast includes are Adam Heller (Baby It's You, Caroline, or Change), Eva Kaminsky (The Language Archive at Roundabout Theatre, August Osage County at The Alley Theatre), Peter Scanavino (Third Watch, Shining City at Manhattan Theatre Club) Mandy Siegfried (Hung, Noises Off) Maryann Urbano (Julie & Julia, An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein) and Liz Wisan (Other Desert Cities at LCT, Broadway)
The Hangar Pilot Reading Series, held every month in Manhattan, offers new and established playwrights a chance to work on their new plays with Hangar alumni, directors, and actors. Notable artists who have participated in the Reading Series include Kristoffer Diaz (Pulitzer finalist, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity), director & Hangar alum Lisa Peterson, & Rebecca Naomi Jones (Passing Strange & American Idiot).

Admission to The Mourners' Bench is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. RSVP to: hangarpilotreadingsnyc@gmail.com.

The Hangar Theatre is committed to providing exceptional theatre experiences of high professional quality to enrich, enlighten, educate, and entertain the diverse audience in the Finger Lakes region and beyond. Strong education and training programs are central parts of our commitment to the local and national artistic communities. Visit our website at www.hangartheatre.org

BIOGRAPHIES
George Brant's plays include Elephant's Graveyard, The Mourners' Bench, Any Other Name, Grizzly Mama, Grounded, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Defiant, Dark Room, Little Sir Echo, Good on Paper, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, One Hand Clapping, Terminal One, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime. His work has been produced and developed by such companies as Trinity Repertory Company, the Kennedy Center, Cleveland Play House, the Playwrights Foundation, the Playwrights' Center, Dobama Theatre, Hangar Theatre, WordBRIDGE Playwright's Lab, Florida Studio Theatre, ATHE, Premiere Stages,Trustus Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, the Drama League, Debutantes and Vagabonds, Terrific New Theatre, the Disney Channel, Circle Theatre, Factory Theatre, StreetSigns Theatre Company, and zeppo theater company. His plays have been awarded the Keene Prize for Literature, the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, a citation of "Best New Play" from the Austin Critics' Table, the Clauder Competition State Winner, a Playwright's Center Core Apprentice Workshop, and the Premiere Stages New Plays Festival. He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Blue Mountain Center, and commissions from Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4. George received his Masters in Writing from the University of Texas at Austin and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. His plays are published by Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, Chicago Plays and Broadway Play Publishing.

SANAZ GHAJARRAHIMI (Director) is an Iranian-American director and choreographer based in New York City. Recent directing credits: Kill to Eat by Caridad Svich (Hangar Theater), Nuclear Love Affair (East River Amphitheater), Orpheus and The Plastic Masquerade (Galapagos Art Space), Stork & Owl (Bleecker Street Theater), Hamlet (Galapagos Art Space, Grace Exhibition Space), Romeo and Juliet (Access Theater), Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl (Robert Moss Theater), and Jet of Blood by Antonin Artaud. Recent Assistant Credits: Prima Donna by Rufus Wainwright, directed by Daniel Kramer at the Manchester International Festival. Her work has also been seen in the critically acclaimed Theatre Mitu production of Death of a Salesman and in Tune Up, Faulty Piston! (Fringe Festival Spotlight Series). Sanaz is a Drama League Alum, graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and Founder/Artistic Director of Built for Collapse.

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