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5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE Returns for Gay Pride Tonight

By: Jun. 27, 2013
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Returning after extended runs at the New York International Fringe Festival Encore Series and Off Broadway's SoHo Playhouse, The New Colony's award-winning 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE will play the Snapple Theater Center's Anne L. Bernstein Theater (210 West 50th Street at the corner of Broadway, New York City). The play returns for a special three performance Pride Weekend engagement tonight, June 27 to June 29, 2013.

Written by Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood with contributions by Sara Gitenstein, Mary Hollis Inboden, Megan Johns, Thea Lux, Beth Stelling and Maari Suorsa, directed by Sara Gitenstein, and presented by Tony Award winner John Arthur Pinckard (Clybourne Park, Silence! The Musical), 5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE stars Caitlin Chuckta, Rachel Farmer, Megan Johns, Thea Lux, and Maari Suorsa, who take us to 1956 where the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Stein are having their annual quiche breakfast. Will they be able to keep their cool when Communists threaten their idyllic town?

5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE began as a 10 minute play in Collaboraction's Sketchbook 10, and was developed by popular demand into a full length play which broke box office records for The New Colony and has gone on to enjoy regional premieres from San Francisco to Omaha to Charleston. The play sold out its entire run at last summer's FringeNYC, winning the Outstanding Production Award, extending to the FringeNYC Encore Series and then an Off Broadway engagement at the SoHo Playhouse. It will also begin performances on July 22 in Provincetown.

5 LESBIANS EATING A QUICHE will play a special Pride Week engagement at the Snapple Theater Center's Anne L. Bernstein Theater on Thursday June 27 at 8:00pm, and Friday and Saturday June 28 and 29 at 10:30pm. Starting Friday July 19, performances will continue at the Snapple Theater Center on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:30pm. Tickets, which range from $25 - $60, are on sale today at the Snapple Theater Center box office and go on sale at Ticketmaster.com on Tuesday June 18. For tickets and more information, visit: www.SnappleTheater.com.

Andrew Hobgood (Co-Playwright) is the founding Artistic Director for The New Colony where he has directed Amelia Earhart: Jungle Princess, FRAT, and Hearts Full of Blood, which went on to the New York Fringe Festival and was featured in its Encore Series. He has served as co-writer on many of The New Colony's original works including That Sordid Little Story and Tupperware: An American Musical Fable, which he also directed. Most recently he directed and co-wrote lyrics for The New Colony's latest musical, Rise of the Numberless. Outside of The New Colony, Andrew won a 2006 FringeNYC award for 58! A Comedy about Bike Messengering. Andrew is an adjunct professor of theatre at the University of Chicago.

Evan Linder (Co-Playwright) is The New Colony's Associate Artistic Director. A graduate of the College of Charleston, Evan has worked with Victory Gardens Theatre, About Face Theatre, the side project, Promethean Theatre Ensemble and Bohemian Theatre Ensemble since moving to Chicago. For The New Colony, Evan has written FRAT, The Warriors, 11:11, Rise of the Numberless and The Bearsuit of Happiness which will premiere as part of The New Colony's 2013 season. Evan is an adjunct professor of theatre at the University of Chicago.

John Arthur Pinckard (Producer) is a Tony Award winning producer of theatre and film, most recently represented on Broadway by Clybourne Park which won the Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize and Olivier Award for Best New Play. His next Broadway show, A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder, opens at the Walter Kerr Theater in November. Other recent productions include Roger Rees' What You Will on the West End, the international tour of Green Day's American Idiot, and the long running Off Broadway hit Silence! The Musical!, which he originated at the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival. Other Broadway credits include Green Day's American Idiot (Tony nomination) Slava's Snowshow on Broadway (Tony nomination). At FringeNYC John has also produced Yeast Nation: the Triumph of Life, Greg Kotis & Mark Hollmann's musical follow-up to Urinetown, starring Harriet Harris, which sold out six enthusiastic houses at the Ellen Stewart Theater. John is the co-founder, with FringeNYC Festival Administrator Britt Lafield, of the FringeNYC Encore Series, now in its seventh year. In addition to 'Outstanding Production' winners 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Silence! and Yeast Nation, John's other FringeNYC credits include Never Swim Alone and Dog Sees God. John is an associate member of the Broadway League and has been a guest lecturer and faculty member at Columbia University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Florida, which named him an Outstanding Young Alumnus in 2009. He is an inaugural recipient of Hal Prince's T. Edward Hambleton Fellowship for creative producers.

For more information, visit www.facebook.com/5quiches or www.snappletheater.com.



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