Photo Flash: First Look at THE GUN SHOW at Theatre Row

Project Y Theatre Company presents the NY Premiere of THE GUN SHOW, by E.M. Lewis at Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street) in The Studio Theatre. Produced as part of the Women in Theatre Festival, THE GUN SHOW has performances through July 24th. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

From a farming community in rural Oregon to the big cities of Los Angeles and New York, playwright E. M. Lewis takes aim at her own relationship with firearms in "The Gun Show." An actor shares Ms. Lewis's unique perspective and true stories about America's most dangerous pastime as if they were his own, with brutal honesty and poignant humor. Leaning neither right nor left, THE GUN SHOW jumps into the middle of the gun control debate, and asks "Can we have a conversation about this?"

The production features actor, Andrew W. Smith (THE RELIGION THING, Project Y Theatre) and is directed by Shelley Butler (INCENDIARY, South Coast Rep).

Playwright, E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, librettist, and teacher of playwriting. She received the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama, and was a finalist for the 2014 Shakespeare's Sister Fellowship. She received the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2010-2011, and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission in 2012.

Lewis won the ATCA/Steinberg Award for her play "Song of Extinction," which also received the Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. She won the Primus Prize for her play "Heads." Her work has been produced around the world, and is published by Samuel French.

In 2014, Lewis premiered two new plays - "The Study (or Reading to Vegetables)" at University of Washington in Seattle, and "The Gun Show" at 16th Street Theater in Chicago. "The Study" went on to a further production at Independence Community College, where Lewis spent nine weeks working on a new play and teaching during a residency at the William Inge Center for the Arts. "The Gun Show" had its west coast premiere at Moving Arts in Los Angeles in November/December 2014 (extending into January 2015), and went on to a third production at Passage Theater in Trenton in January/February 2015.

Lewis wrote the libretto for her first opera last year, as a resident artist in American Lyric Theater's 2013-2014 Composer Librettist Development Program; "The Resurrection Engine," developed with composer Evan Meier, premiered at Symphony Space.

Performance times for THE GUN SHOW vary. See schedule for details at www.projectytheatre.org. Tickets range from $12-$25 and can be purchased through www.telecharge.com. To order tickets by phone: Telecharge at 212-239-6200 or 800-447-7400.

Photo Credit: Jeanette Sears

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