DelanoCelli Productions Presents DOWN RANGE 10/28-11/14

DelanoCelli Productions presents the World Premiere of Down Range, a raw and touching new play by Jeffrey Skinner exposing how returning soldiers survive the war at home. Performances will be held at Theatre 3, 311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor, in New York City from October 28th-November 14th. Trish Minskoff directs a cast of five including Bob Celli* (Circle, Going Home, As The World Turns), Thaddeus Daniels* (Circle, Law & Order), Rachel Parker* (As The World Turns), Steve Sherman* (Regional: Hamlet, Hot n' Cole), and Tracy Weller. All proceeds from Down Range ticket sales will be donated to Soldier's Heart, a veterans' return and healing charitable organization addressing the emotional and spiritual needs of veterans, their families and communities.

Two twenty-plus-year veterans return home after their convoy is hit by an IED in Iraq. Torn between family and the call of duty, their wars continue at home, opening old wounds of betrayal, fear, infidelity, and loneliness for them and their wives. In this touching, poetic, brutal and romantic commentary on current events, the veterans and their fractured families are forced into a surprising and bitter realism. And, only one thing is certain - the high cost paid by all.

Director Trish Minskoff has worked on productions in London, Scotland, Holland, Romania, Hong Kong, Massachusetts and New York. The JMTC production of Circle, which she directed for PS NBC@HERE, The Kraine Theatre and The Raw Space won an OOBR award and ran Off-Broadway for five months. Other NY credits include: When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout, by Sharman Macdonald with Roberta Maxwell and Robin Morse (NY premiere), Don't Let Destiny Push You Around for PS NBC@HERE,Jump Start, Birthday and Patient 23 for The John Montgomery Theatre Company, The Unexpected Man (York Avenue Playhouse), Crimes of the Heart (National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped for Emerge Arts),Sirens (The Producers Club for The Harbor), Orpheus on West Fourth Street (New Knitting Factory) and Screwdrivers & Sunday Brunch(Altered Stages and WBAI Radio). Workshop productions include: Sex Ed (The Actors Institute), As Long as it's Morning (Rattlestick Theatre) and The Child (Vineyard Theatre). For the Harwich Junior Theatre on Cape Cod Trish has directed Bugsy Malone and Jane Eyre. London credits include Jane, or the End of the World, Quest of the Whooperdink, Lysistrata and The Enchanted Wood, which she also co-wrote, (Arts Threshold Theatre Co.), and The City - a multi-media dance piece (The Place Theatre & Turtle-Key Arts Centre). Trish brought Arts Threshold's production of The Guise to the Edinburgh Festival (Fringe First) and toured through Romania and Hong Kong. As an assistant director, she has worked with Phil Setren on Wendy Hammond's Jersey City for the London New Playwright's Festival, with Jack Klaff on The Secret of the White Rose, with Jonathan Chadwick on The Investigation by Peter Weiss and Art Devine on 9-Ball. In addition, she assisted John Dexter on the Buxton Opera Festival and West End production of Gigi.

Playwright Jeffrey Skinner was awarded his second Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2006. His fifth book of poetry, Salt Water Amnesia, appeared in 2005 from Ausable Press. He has published four previous collections: Late Stars (Wesleyan University Press), A Guide to Forgetting (a winner in the 1987 National Poetry series, chosen by Tess Gallagher, published by Graywolf Press), The Company of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series), and Gender Studies, (Miami University Press). Four of Skinner's plays have been finalists in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference competition, and his one-act, Damned Spot, won the 2006 Paw Paw Village Players short play competition. His short plays have won a number of staged readings and productions, and his full length play, FORTUNATE SON, was given staged readings at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in May, 2002, and the Theater at Monmouth in August of the same year, as well as being chosen as a finalist in the Writer's Digest Playwriting Awards. His recent play DREAM ON had its premier full production in February of 2007, by the Cardboard Box Collaborative Theatre in Philadelphia, PA.

Down Range opens Wednesday, October 28 and runs through Saturday, November 14. Performances take place Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8pm, and Sunday, November 8th at 3pm. A complete calendar of performances can be found at www.smarttix.com.

Down Range is 2 hours with one intermission.

Tickets are $18 and can be purchased 24/7 online at www.smarttix.com or by calling 212-868-4444. More information on Down Range can be found at www.delanocelli.com.

Laura Delano is producer of Down Range. Director: Trish Minskoff; Scenic Design: Tim McMath; Costume Design: Anne Sherwood; Lighting Design: John Tees, III (Off B'way: Circle); Projection Design: Alex Koch (B'way: Irena's Vow); Sound Design: Daniel Kluger; Stage Manager: Doug Shearer; Assistant Stage Manager: Russ Marisak; Publicist: Paul Siebold; Graphic Design/Photo Art: Laura Skinner.

Down Range is sponsored by Beth Davis In Good Company, a 501(c)3 dedicated to creating a greater interest in and appreciation of the arts by supporting emerging artists, original productions and experimental ideas.

DelanoCelli Productions was formed by Bob Celli & Laura Delano in 1995. Most recently DC produced Going Home, a short film written and directed by Bob. The film was an official selection at the Moab Independent Film Festival, the Gold Award Winner for Best Dramatic Original Short at the Houston International Film Festival, Winner of the Best Short Award at The Northampton Independent Film Festival and Winner of Best Original Short at the 2003 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Together they have worked extensively in New York City as producers and actors. They were associate producers of the Off-Broadway show Circle by Suzanne Bachner, which won the OOBR and SPOTLIGHT AWARDS. They were also part of Flicks on 66, a digital film festival, appearing in Jennifer Monroe P.I. by Susanne Bachner and Liz Sullivan. In New York, they produced and appeared in two revivals, Burn This by Lanford Wilson and Jesse and the Bandit Queen by David Freeman. Through DelanoCelli Productions, they also produced two original plays, Running in Place by Joshua James and The Ballad of Emma Munroe, by Tim Lea.

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