Heidi Armbruster's EVERY GOOD GIRL DESERVES FUN to Play Walkerspace

Clutch productions has announced that it will present EVERY GOOD GIRL DESERVES FUN - AND OTHER MISREMEMBERED THINGS, a new dark comedy written by Heidi Armbruster about prolonged adolescence running into early onset Alzheimer's, from December 2nd through December 20th at Walkerspace, 46 Walker Street, in Manhattan.

EVERY GOOD GIRL DESERVES FUN - AND OTHER MISREMEMBERED THINGS is a dark comedy about growing up too late and aging too soon. On an unseasonably warm October weekend, two sisters return to their small hometown in Wisconsin to problem solve their mother's early onset Alzheimer's. Their struggles to be caregivers set off a chain reaction that tears through the entire community and leaves Liz, the recently promoted director of the memory care wing, to pick up the pieces.

Heidi Armbruster is an actress and writer dedicated to creating new work and finding innovative approaches to classical work. As a writer, Heidi's play "Dairyland" has been read and work shopped as part of Primary Stages ESPADrills, at the Lark, Red Fern Theater, Luna Stage, and was selected as the New Play Workshop at The Chautauqua Theater Festival in 2014. Her short play "Purgatory" was read as part of Red Bull Theater's First 2011 Short Play Festival and published by Smith and Kraus in their "Best Ten Minute Plays of 2013" anthology. Heidi developed "Mrs. Christie and the Secret of Notebook 74" and "Every Good Girl Deserves Fun and Other Misremembered Things" while in residency as a Working Farm member at Space on Ryder Farm in the summer of 2015. "Miss Angela's Legitimate Home for Women Living in Sin" was performed as part of the ESPA short play series "Detention" at Jimmy's 43 and is available on Indie Theater Now.

Director Michelle Bossy is a film and theater director dedicated to bringing original, new work to the stage and screen. She recently directed the short films 18 (World Premiere, Austin Film Festival), written by Courtney Baron, and She Grinds Her Own Coffee, written by Cheri Magid. Michelle directed and produced the premieres of Sex of the Baby by Matthew-Lee Erlbach; Cloven Tongues by Victor Lesniewski; Un Plugged In by Brian Pracht; South Beach Rapture by David Caudle; Sarajevo's Child by Katie Simon, in addition to many other new plays. She directed the world premiere of Little Monsters by Maria Alexandria Beech, and created the musical High School Confidential for Primary Stages with writers Janet Reed, Dan Ahearn, Sara Wordsworth and Russ Kaplan. She directed developmental readings of Miller, Mississippi by Boo Killebrew, The Infinity Pond by Maria Alexandria Beech and Eat Your Heart Out by Courtney Baron (all at Perry Mansfield New Works Festival), Bicycle Girl by Rogelio Martinez (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Gloria by Maria Alexandria Beech (EST), Mercy by Adam Szymkowicz, and May Day by Molly Smith Metzler, among many others. Michelle is the Associate Artistic Director of Primary Stages, where she has worked for the past twelve years. There, she is the Director of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, where she has worked with over thirty writers to foster their new plays each season. Michelle holds the first undergraduate directing degree from Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts. She teaches acting and playwriting for the Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) and directing for Syracuse University's Tepper Semester. Member: Lincoln Center Director's Lab.

The cast of EVERY GOOD GIRL DESERVES FUN features Marinda Anderson* (Far From Heaven: Playwrights Horizons), Christianne Greiert* (Foreign Bodies: New York Theatre Workshop), Amy Kersten* (Chinese Premiere of Venus in Fur), Jennifer Dorr White* (Onion News Network; The Inn at Lake Divine: Tongue In Cheek Theater), Miranda Noelle Wilson* (Dracula: Three Day Hangover), Stephen Stocking* (The Casebook of Rudolf H-: New York Theater Workshop).

The production was commissioned one year ago as part of an initiative to create more work for women in theatre and is creating 14 job opportunities for women in theater including giving Heidi Armbruster her NY playwrighting debut.

EVERY GOOD GIRL DESERVES FUN features Set Design by Stephen Dobay; Lighting Design by Cecila Durban; Sound Design by Janie Bullard; and Costume Design by Jennifer Fisher. Nancy Noto serves as the General Manager. Lizzie Robinson* is the Production Stage Manager.

Performances of EVERY GOOD GIRL DESERVES FUN are on Dec 2 - 7pm; Dec 3 - 7pm; Dec 4 - 8pm; Dec 5 - 8pm; Dec 8 - 7pm; Dec 9 - 7pm; Dec 10 - 7pm; Dec 11 - 8pm; Dec 12 - 2pm/8pm; Dec 14 - 7pm, Dec 16 - 7pm; Dec 17 - 7pm; Dec 18 - 8pm; Dec 19 - 8pm; and Dec 20 - 3pm

Tickets are on sale for $18 until November 20th and $25 November 21st onward. Tickets can be purchased by going to www.EveryGoodGirlThePlay.com or by clicking directly on this link https://www.artful.ly/store/events/7418

Wednesday, December 16th is Alzheimer's Awareness Night. A portion of ticket proceeds for the performance, as well as any donations collected that night, will be donated to Alzheimer's research.

*All actors and stage manager appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association. EVERY GOOD GIRL DESERVES FUN is an Equity Approved Showcase.

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