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An opening night event entitled "Hot Dish" will take place on Wednesday, June 2 at 8pm. At "Hot Dish", Clubbed Thumb will throw ingredients from this year's plays at a group of artists and let thEm Loose on the pillars. Free admission for all.

Summerworks 2010 will take place from June 2 to 26, 2010, at the Ohio Theatre, located at 66 Wooster Street, between Spring & Broome, in Soho, NY. Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for students and can be purchased online at www.TheaterMania.com or by calling 212-352-3101. For more information about Clubbed Thumb call 212-802-8007 or visit http://www.ClubbedThumb.org.

Clubbed Thumb commissions, develops and produces funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers. Since its founding in 1996, the company has earned 4 OBIES and presented plays in every form of development, including over 75 full productions. Clubbed Thumb is an incubator for artists and their work, staging plays to critical acclaim while supporting an ever-growing creative community. Funny, Strange, Provocative, an anthology of plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, is available through Playscripts.

Clubbed Thumb is delighted to announce that it has recently been awarded multi-year support for artistic initiatives from the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Theater Program of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "seeks to fund leading theaters of all sizes that contribute to the advancement or preservation of theater as an art form and which are characterized by distinctive and ambitious artistic programming, a commitment to artists, intellectual relevance, and the capacity to engage audiences. Its goals are to help artistic leaders who are "swimming upstream" to continue to take artistic risks; to support processes that will improve the quality of work being produced; and to support collaborations between organizations that develop, premiere, and mount second and third productions of a work. It also endeavors to support long-term commitments to artists by institutions."