Rosemary Prinz to Star in 'Voices of Swords'

Rosemary Prinz will star in Kari Floren's new drama VOICES OF SWORDS, directed by Spider Duncan Christopher, presented by Right Down Broadway Productions at off-Broadway's Urban Stages (259 W. 30th St.) for a strictly limited engagement from June 18 through 22.
 
Prinz stars in a new play about an indomitable woman, Olivia, who employs a personal organizer, Alexis, to win the battle with her wayward son.  Unfortunately Alexis can't organize her own life, much less anyone else's.  Fortunately Alexis shows Olivia that losing the battle can sometimes mean winning the war.
 
Star of stage and screen Rosemary Prinz's Broadway credits include The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Tribute (with Jack Lemmon), and Three Men on a Horse.   She originated the role of M'Lynn in Off-Broadway's Steel Magnolias and roles in Grown-Ups, In Connecticut and On Deaf Ears.  She has performed on tour – most recently in Driving Miss Daisy - and regionally throughout the country.  She's also known for daytime acting turns on "As the World Turns" and "All My Children."
 
The cast also features Robert M. Jimenez (Take Me Out), Lauren Mufson (Mamma Mia), Michael McKenzie (Waiting in the Wings, The Man Who Came to Dinner), Mary Elaine Monti,  and Tony nominee Gordon Joseph Weiss (Sly Fox, Ghetto).
 
Kari Floren has written the plays Incidental Lives, A Late Supper, Voices of Swords, The Porch and most recently, If Wishes Were Horses.  She is a Co-Founder of Right Down Broadway Productions, a not-for-profit production company created to create quality, original, Off Broadway productions in NYC.  In June 2007 RDBP produced If Wishes Were Horses at Altered Stages.  Previously RDBP produced The Porch (also at Altered Stages) and in December 2002, RDBP produced A Late Supper at the Maverick Theater.  In 1999 Incidental Lives was produced by New Avenue Theatre Project at Synchronicity Space in New York City.  She has also written the screenplays For Love of Mama (finalist in the Nantucket Film Festival) and It's Magic! - A coming of age story for late, late bloomers.
 
Spider Duncan Christopher has been producing, directing, choreographing, acting, singing, and dancing professionally since he was 16 years old.  He is a master acting teacher in New York and is a founding member of the Mason Gross School of the Arts Acting Department of Rutgers University.  He was Associate director for Circle Repertory Lab.  choreographed and assistant directed, with Pete Masterson, the original pre-Broadway production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the famed Actors Studio in NYC; Currently he is directing a tribute to Dean Martin called Dino, and A Vision of My Vision with Orah Gibbons, both soon to be seen at theaters around the world
 
The design team for VOICES OF SWORDS includes Tamar Gadish (set), John Viesta (lights), Zach Moore (sound) Roger Murdock (original music). Production stage manager is Emileena Pedigo.
 
Performances for Voices of Swords are Wednesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm and Sunday at 3pm and 7pm.  Tickets to Voices of Swords ($40) are available by calling SmartTix (212) 868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.