Gotham Stage Company’s SPRINGboard Series Continues With Luther, 5/9

Off-Broadway's Gotham Stage Company is announcing the second installment in their SPRINGboard Reading Series, to be presented May 9th at Greenwich Village's historic Players Theatre. A reading of Ethan Lipton's Luther, will be directed by company member Hayley Finn, with the cast to be announced shortly.

Luther is a tragic comedy in which abandoned veterans of war are adopted in the fashion that we now adopt abandoned animals.

Playwright Ethan Lipton is a winner of a 2008 NYFA grant for playwriting and a member of the Public Theater's inaugural Emerging Writers Group (2008). His play Goodbye April, Hello May was produced at HERE Center for the Arts, and his play Meat has been produced in New York, Edinburgh and Los Angeles, where it earned aDrama-Logue Award for playwriting.

Director Hayley Finn's New York credits include Fate's Imagination by Randall David Cook (Gotham Stage Company), and KateCrackernuts (The Flea Theater), Scab (Women's Expressive Theatre), and Metal (Here Arts Center) by Sheila Callaghan, among many others. Hayley is the recipient of the Ruth Easton Directing Fellowship, the Drama League Directing Fellowship, and the TCG New Generations Future Leader Grant. She is currently the Resident Director of The Playwrights' Center.

According to Co-Artistic Director Michael Barra, "Gotham's mission is two-pronged; to create opportunities for emerging artists and to increase the accessibility of theatre to the general public. This series is designed to allow us to further our mission on both fronts."

Tickets will be free to the public and can be reserved via the company's website.

Gotham Stage Company is a 501(c)(3) not for profit theatre and is comprised of a membership that spans all theatrical disciplines. The company is bestknown for their world-premiere production of Resident Playwright Randall David Cook's Sake with the Haiku Geisha at the former Perry Street Theatre.

For more information, or to reserve tickets, please visit www.gothamstage.org

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