Brimmer Street Theatre Company Presents AND THEN THEY FELL

Brimmer Street Theatre Company has announced its upcoming production of And Then They Fell, a new play by Tira Palmquist, directed by BSTC company member Amy K. Harmon at the Atwater Village Theatre. There will be two preview performances on Thursday, September 8, and Friday, September 9 at 8pm. Opening is set for Saturday, September 10 at 8pm and the strictly limited engagement will run through October 2 only.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Chelsea Boyd, Ben Fuller, Brad Harris, JJ Hawkins, Faith Imafidon, Ian Madeira, Lily Nicksay, Kacie Rogers, Jaquita Ta'le, and Tim Venable. The scenic and lighting design is by Katrina Coulourides, costume design is by Kaitlyn Kaufman, and sound design is by Vincent Olivieri. The stage manager is Kathryn Eipl, and the show is produced for Brimmer Street Theatre Company by David Jette and Emilia Richeson.

And Then They Fell tells the story of Jordan and Cal, two teenagers who find themselves without stable homes. Jordan has fled a home wrecked by alcoholism and sexual abuse while still trying to graduate high school with honors. Cal is a young transgender boy set adrift by his family's intolerance and the failure of adults and institutions to help him through a severely vulnerable period of his young life. These two teens find each other, and for a while, they give each other the hope and security they so desperately need.

All ticket proceeds will be donated to My Friend's Place, a homeless youth resource center in Hollywood. Their mission is to assist and inspire homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives. It is a professionally staffed drop-in resource center serving over 1,400 homeless youths ages 12 to 25 (and their children) each year. The primary goal is to lower traditional barriers to service and provide homeless youth with the opportunity to improve their psychological, intellectual, and physical capacity to reach their potential.

Tira Palmquist's plays include Two Degrees, Ten Mile Lake, Age of Bees, among others. Two Degrees has been featured in numerous festivals, including New American Voices in the UK, the Caltech Mach 33 Festival, and the Great Plains Theater Conference. It will be featured this year at Denver Center's New Play Summit. Palmquist's work has been developed by Seven Devils, Inkwell, 9Thirty Theatre Company, the Road Theatre, EST-LA, and the Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings program. She teaches creative writing at the Orange County School of the Arts. She is a member of the Playwrights Union, the EST-LA's Playwrights Unit, the Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. www.tirapalmquist.com

Director Amy K. Harmon is a founding member of Brimmer Street Theatre Company. Past directing credits include A Poster of the Cosmos by Lanford Wilson (Equity Fights AIDS, Boston), and Scenes from Our Marriage by Michael Rex (The Ivy Substation). Past BSTC acting credits include All Your Hard Work, Summer in Hell, <3, Leiris/Picasso, and Flower to Flower. Film and television credits include Scandal (ABC), Suit Up (FOX), Castle (ABC), Private Practice (ABC), The West Wing (NBC), and American Splendor (HBO). Additionally, Harmon has been a guest professor of movement theory and scene study at Culver City's Advanced Academy of Visual and Performing Arts.

Brimmer Street Theatre Company is a non-profit Los Angeles-based performance company with a commitment to develop original theatre and welcome artists whose work challenges established forms and expectations. BSTC strives to form a close ensemble with these artists, craftsmen, students, and benefactors to produce work of exceptional innovation and character. For more info, visit www.BrimmerStreet.org.

There will be two preview performances of And Then They Fell on Thursday, September 8 at 8pm and Friday, September 9 at 8pm. Opening is set for Saturday, September 10 at 8pm. The regular performance schedule will be Thursday and Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm and 8pm through October 2 only. Admission is $25 for matinees and $30 for evening performances. To purchase tickets online visit www.BrimmerStreet.org or call (617) 953-8544. The Atwater Village Theatre is located at 3269 Casitas Avenue in Los Angeles, 90039.

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