Playwrights on Park Reading Series Presents Heidi Armbruster's DAIRYLAND

Join Playhouse on Park in designating the Greater Hartford area as a premiere destination for the cultivation of innovative theatrical work! The Playwrights on Park Reading Series was created for this very purpose, and our next evening in this exciting series is Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30pm with Heidi Armbruster's Dairyland.

The mission of Playwrights on Park is to produce original plays and musicals, therefore fostering emerging and established playwrights. Each reading features a new work, where audience members participate in a talk back session with the playwright, director and cast members. Audience members are also provided with response cards at the end of each reading.

Dairyland stars Allie, a food writer in New York city. Her father is a dairy farmer in Wisconsin. As Allie tumbles through her urban landscape, desperately traversing the obstacles of journalism, baby shower crafts and online dating, she is surprised to discover that she is on an inevitable journey leading straight back to her father's farm.

Heidi Armbruster is an actress and writer dedicated to creating new work and finding innovative approaches to classical work. As a writer, Heidi's play "Dairyland" has been read and work shopped as part of Primary Stages ESPADrills, at the Lark, Red Fern Theater, Luna Stage, and was selected as the New Play Workshop at The Chautauqua Theater Festival in 2014. Her short play "Purgatory" was read as part of Red Bull Theater's First 2011 Short Play Festival and published by Smith and Kraus in their "Best Ten Minute Plays of 2013" anthology. Heidi developed "Mrs. Christie and the Secret of Notebook 74" and "Every Good Girl Deserves Fun and Other Misremembered Things" while in residency as a Working Farm member at Space on Ryder Farm in the summer of 2015. "Miss Angela's Legitimate Home for Women Living in Sin" was performed as part of the ESPA short play series "Detention" at Jimmy's 43 and is available on Indie Theater Now.

As an actress, Heidi has extensive New York and regional theater credits, including "Time Stands Still" on Broadway, Lincoln Center's production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play "Disgraced," the New York premiere of Theresa Rebeck's "Poor Behavior" at Primary Stages, Sam Hunter's "Clarkston," and Anna Ziegler's "Boy." Heidi was awarded a Drama League Nomination for her work in the Keen Company's revival of "Tea and Sympathy." Heidi's Film and TV credits include My Man Is A Loser, Michael Clayton, Revolutionary Road, The Northern Kingdom, Louie, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, 30 Rock, House of Cards, and Younger.

For tickets, please call our box office at 860-523-5900 x10, or visit www.playhouseonpark.org. All tickets are $5 each, general admission. Playhouse on Park is located at 244 Park Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06119.

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