Photo Flash: SiNNERMAN's DAYS OF LATE

SiNNERMAN Ensemble presents the world premiere "Days of Late," written and directed by Braden LuBell. This romantic drama is a hybrid of raw, emotional desperation and dark comedy, with fast-paced dialogue and ensemble movement following a savage, hilarious and heartbreaking journey of eight young city dwellers fighting to avoid frantic and isolated lives. They attempt to navigate love and career goals while living far away from their families in this current era of sexual liberation ... including on-line dating, anonymous sex and the growing acceptance of bisexuality and homosexuality. Should they settle down and have children as their parents did at this age, or continue striving for their own unique version of happiness? "Days of Late" illuminates the contemporary struggle of twenty- and thirty-somethings to find meaning, purpose and direction in a society so seemingly different than generations before. "Days of Late" runs about two hours with one intermission, and contains adult language and sexual content. SiNNERMAN, formed out of the Steppenwolf Theatre summer program, is spelled with all caps except for the "i", and is named after the Nina Simone song.

WHERE: Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago, IL 60618
Parking lot at southwest corner of Belmont and Western
CTA buses #49 Belmont and #77 Western

Opens Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Closes Saturday, May 22, 2010
Runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 3 p.m.
Preview on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. (media also invited to preview)

TICKETS: Publish this number: 773-296-6024
Also at www.viaducttheatre.com, www.goldstar.com and www.hottix.org
$20 general admission - please note that the Viaduct Box Office and Ticket Web add a $1 phone and $4 on-line service charge to the below listed prices
$30 on Saturday, April 17 for Wine, Cheese and Chat Opening Celebration
$15 student/industry Thursdays and Sundays (with ID, door purchase only)
$15 special tickets (door purchase only) for this special show:
"If My Mother Only Knew" Mothers Day Special on Sunday, April 9, 3 p.m.
Pay-what-you-can for 4/14 preview; group rates for 8+ at 773-296-6024
STAFF: Braden LuBell (Playwright, Director), William Anderson (Set Design), Jess Harpenau (Lighting Design), Matt Cummings (Props Design), Tara Malpass (Stage Manager), Bill Paton (Technical Director), nk [sic] Mooneyham (Photography, Graphic Design), with SiNNERMAN ensemble members Stefin Steberl (Costume Design, Co-Production Manager), Cyd Blakewell (Co-Production Manager), Anna Carini (Script Consultant), Levi Petree (Program Design), Dominica Fisher (Treasurer), Jeremy Fisher (Company Manager), Howie Johnson, Ryan Martin and Calliope Porter (Creative Consultants).

CAST: SiNNERMAN ensemble members Sue Redman (Avery) and Ebony Wimbs (Nina), with guest artists Arianne Ellison (Chrissy), Brian Kavanaugh (Dale),
Shane Kenyon (Arthur), Brett Lee (Sascha), Christine Lin (Miyoko), and Doug Tyler (Max).

BIO: Braden LuBell (Director/Playwright) was reared in New York and educated in acting and directing at Emerson College. Previous Chicago directing credits include Diamante's "Lucid" and their Jeff-nominated "All My Love" at Theatre Building Chicago, his own plays "Open" (Bailiwick) and "Quick and Dirty" (Apple Trees' Orchard Series), and a staged reading of "Noble/Birth" (The Gift). Regional credits include "Closer" and "The American Plan" (Bckseet [sic] Productions, Philadelphia), Boston productions of "One Flea Spare" and "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek," and Sue Redman's "Here To There" (San Francisco Fringe Festival). LuBell created a stage adaptation of the James Baldwin novel "Giovanni's Room," and a deconstruction of "The Glass Menagerie." Recently, Racket Collective produced his play "(Jack &) Penny" in L.A., and will produce "Quick and Dirty" in spring 2010; plus New York's Sticky Festival premiered one of his ten minute plays. He is the author of a new adaptation of "Hedda Gabler," and is "Poet Laureate" for Chicago's Cabaret Vagabond.

ENSEMBLE: SiNNERMAN is an ensemble of 12 artists who support and challenge each
other. Working with a sense of play, a love for the collaborative process, and a belief in the power and importance of community, they create compelling and evocative theatre. Their inaugural production, "The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers" in 2007, received critical notice including "there is no question about their acting skills" (Chicago Tribune) and "impressive" (Time Out Chicago). Subsequently, their world-premiere production of "Sweet Confinement" in 2008 was lauded as "bold and provocative, glaringly intimate and urgently powerful theater" (Gay Chicago Magazine), and received four After Dark Awards (for New Work, Ensemble, Set and Direction). Their production of Chekhov's "Ivanov," directed by Sheldon Patinkin, again garnered critical praise, such as "SiNNERMAN...instantly joins the big league, turning Chekhov's stylistically tricky first play into a riveting exploration of the tragic and farcical flounderings of the human heart. The inquisitive, passionate, disarmingly young cast are so in tune with Chekhov's nuanced style ..." (Chicago Reader) Ambitious graduates of the School at Steppenwolf, the members have worked at such Chicago theaters as Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Court, The House, Collaboraction, Remy Bumppo, Chicago Dramatists, Uma Productions, Signal, The Gift, The Second City, and numerous others. At Steppenwolf, the group did an exercise to the Nina Simone song Sinnerman, and were inspired by the singer's music, passion and strength, and by the beautiful moment shared, to choose their name.

Photos by nk [sic] Mooneyham

Days Of Late Cast

Christine Lin and Brian Kavanaugh

Shane Kenyon and Sue Redman

Shane Kenyon and Sue Redman

Ebony Wimbs, Brett Lee, and Doug Tyler

Cast Of Days Of Late