Fordham Alumni Theatre Company Closes WHAT MAY FALL 7/31

Fordham Alumni Theatre Company presents WHAT MAY FALL by Peter Gil-Sheridan and directed by Morgan Gould

PREVIEWS BEGIN: Tuesday, July 21st
OPENING NIGHT: Saturday, July 24th
CLOSING NIGHT: Saturday, July 31st

When a window washer falls to his death from the tallest building in Minneapolis, it forces nine strangers to face the slippery and terrifying reality of living in a world made of ice. Loosely and lyrically based on actual events, WHAT MAY FALL explores what keeps us grounded when everything can change in an instant.

STARRING: Annie Purcell* (The Coast of Utopia and Awake and Sing), Tom Deckman* (Spamalot and Good Vibrations), Amelia Workman* (Lear and The Shipment), Kate Morgan Chadwick* (Frenchie in The Nat'l Tour of Grease), Chris Bester, Maria McConville* (NY Innovative Theatre Award Winner for Best Actress 2005), Marco Formosa* (Tony & Tina's Wedding), Jessica Howell* (Zeus & Roxanne), and Ian McWethy

*Appears Courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.

DESIGNERS: Sets - Chad McArver, Lighting - Ryan Seelig, Costumes - Dana Covarrubias, Sound - Tim Chaffee and Chris Barlow, Props - Ian Crawford, and Graphics - Jeremiah Hernandez

WHAT MAY FALL will run for 10 performances at Pope Auditorium at Fordham University
Located at 311 West 60th Street on the corner of 60th and 9th Avenue.

Tickets are $18.00 or $15 with a valid student ID
at www.theatermania.com or by calling (866) 811-4111

PETER GIL-SHERIDAN (Playwright) is a multidisciplinary artist whose plays include The Deadly Belles, Everyday I Wake the Fool, Glow, Vanishing Son, and Topsy Turvy Mouse which has been produced by Cherry Lane Theatre, Borderlands, and Gustavus Adolphus, developed at Sundance Institute, New York Theatre Workshop and was named the winner of The Smith Prize from National New Play Network for outstanding political work. Peter recently completed a new play, Ritu Comes Home, for the InterAct Theatre 20/20 Commission in Philadelphia. He also directed Dog Act by Liz Duffy Adams at Fordham and History of the Word, an interactive hip-hop/spoken word musical at the Cleveland Playhouse (IPAY Festival.) Peter received his MFA from The University of Iowa's Playwright's Workshop and his BA from Fordham University at Lincoln Center where he's been on the faculty since 2005.

MORGAN GOULD (Director) most recent original productions include: Leah Hendrick's Elephant in the Room (NY Fringe Festival), Alaina Hammond's Dr. Chekhov:Gunshot Expert (Brooklyn Playwrights Collective), Les Hunter's The Biggest Break (Artistic New Directions) and Andi Cohen's Maybe, Tomorrow (HipObscurity). Morgan has also helped develop work by playwrights Matthew Paul Olmos, Sonya Sobieski, Elizabeth Claire Taylor, Bethany Larsen, Peter Gil-Sheridan and Isaac Oliver. Select assistantships include: Adam Greenfield (Madeleine George's The Zero Hour), Davis McCallum (Greg Moss' PUNKPLAY), Pam MacKinnon (Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park), Sam Gold (Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation), Paul Willis (Sheila Callaghan's Crawl, Fade to White), and Lisa Peterson (Naomi Wallace's Twenty One Positions). Morgan is a member of New George's writer/ director lab, the Lincoln Center Director's Lab and the Associate Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Founded in 2008 by Fordham's Theatre Program, the FORDHAM ALUMNI THEATRE COMPANY brings together graduates from across all disciplines to create an annual summer production. The company focuses on the development of new work that highlights Fordham's legacy of creating engaging, innovative theatre, while providing an opportunity for alumni actors, directors, writers, designers, technicians, stage managers and administrative professionals to practice and hone their respective crafts. Past productions include The Marian Chronicles and Once There was a Boy.
http://www.fordham.edu/alumnitheatrecompany

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