rUDE mECHANICALS Theater Company premieres ROUGH SKETCH at 59E59 Theaters

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes rUDE mECHANICALS Theater Company to 59E59 Theaters with the world premiere of ROUGH SKETCH, written by Shawn Nacol and directed by Ian Morgan. ROUGH SKETCH begins previews on Thursday, January 14 for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 31. Opening Night is Sunday, January 17 at 3:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Wednesday at 7:30 PM; Thursday - Saturday at 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM. Tickets are $18 (12.60 for 59E59 Members). Tickets are available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com. For more information visit www.59E59.org.

Doodle Ranch Studios is desperate - Coffee Beanies is over-budget and behind schedule. Two animators snowed in over the holidays while trying to save the picture risk their hearts and lose their minds in a creative conflict that threatens Childhood as we know it. ROUGH SKETCH is a deranged comedy about the cutthroat world of G-rated entertainment.

The cast of ROUGH SKETCH includes Tina Benko (Broadway's Irena's Vow, Hedda Gabler) and Matthew Lawler (Will Eno's The Flu Season, Don DeLillo's Valparaiso).

Shawn Nacol's (playwright) plays include: Drawing Monsters, PsychoPharm, Trophy Wife (2002 Bentley Prize, First Place: 2002 Southwest Conference), Slay Belles (Best Play and Audience Choice awards: 10th Annual Albee Conference). Currently, Shawn teaches Lit and Dæmonology at Saint Ann's in Brooklyn and just completed Photo Op, his first short film.

Ian Morgan (director) is the Associate Artistic Director of The New Group. Since 1999, he has worked there developing and directing new work, and running The New Group (naked) second stage series and The New Group/New Works play development program. For The New Group, he directed the Drama Desk-nominated The Accomplices by Bernard Weinraub, which has gone on to productions across the country, as well as Rich Boyfriend by Evan Smith, Critical Darling by Barry Levey and A Spalding Gray Matter by Michael Brandt. Other recent productions include Sparrow by Linda Faigao-Hall (LIA at Theatre Row); Progress by Matei Visniec (Immigrants Theatre Project/HERE); Ham Lake by Nat Bennett and Sam Rosen, and The Toad Poems by Gerald Locklin and George Carroll (Soho Playhouse); Ethnic Cleansing Day by Brett Neveu (The Production Company); Missing Time by Michael Brandt (Breedingground). He has also directed and workshopped new work at the Atlantic, the O'Neill, the Public, Rattlestick, the Lark, Cape Cod Theatre Project, New York Theater Workshop, New Dramatists, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Ian previously worked as a director and dramaturge in Minneapolis, where he was a literary manager at The Playwrights' Center.