Photo Flash: The Roundtable Ensemble Presents BABEL TOWER

In "BABEL TOWER" the year is 1950. The isolated townspeople of Black Kettle, Texas, have come together to construct a mysterious tower. Jack, an ex-high school football star and gas station owner, stands alone as the voice of dissension. When he discovers that the eponymous tower might actually be a Russian missile, we find out how far he will go to save the town.

Playwright Alexis Kozak had his play The Black Bird Returns presented by Roundtable Ensemble at the 45th Street Theatre. In New York his plays have also been presented at Polaris North and the American Theatre of Actors, and in L.A. at the L.A. Theatre Center, The MET Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, and Kulak's Woodshed. Mr. Kozak's playwriting credits include: I Am David Mamet, Dog Papers, Julia Walks on Stilts, Somebody Else's, Oedipus Wrecked, Box of Monsters, and Shakespeare Gets an MFA. The cast will be: Tony Cormier (Professor), Ryan Farrell (William), Ty Hewitt (Jack), and Steph Van Vlack (Hattie). The set and lighting design will be by Nick Francone, the costume design by Liam O'Brien, the sound design by Bryan Postelnek, and the properties by Lena Grotticelli. The producer will be Madeline Orton, the production manager Andrea Ghersetich, and the production stage manager Katie Kroeper.

The Roundtable Ensemble (www.roundtableensemble.org), founded in 1998, produces humanist theater in New York City. The company believes theater can make a powerful contribution to the lives of the people in our community by acting as a laboratory in which new ways of relating within and to our community can be explored by both the theater artist and the audience.

PHOTOS BY: Jim Baldassare