59E59 Theatres Welcomes Project Y To NYC Premier Of FUBAR OR INTERESTING, INCREDIBLE, AMAZING, FANTASTIC, Runs 6/11-28

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is thrilled to welcome Project Y to  Americas Off Broadway with the NYC premiere of Fubar Or Interesting, Incredible, Amazing, Fantastic, written by  Karl Gajdusek  and directed by Larissa Kokernot.  Fubar begins previews on Thursday, June 11 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 28. Opening Night is Tuesday, June 16 at 7:15 PM.  The performance schedule is Tuesday at 7:15 PM, Wednesday - Saturday at 8:15 PM and Sunday at 3:15 PM.  The regular ticket price is $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.

Mary and David live in a small apartment crammed full of boxes her abused mother left behind.  When Mary is the victim of random violence, it leads the two of them down different paths of addiction and reconciliation. Meanwhile, Richard is a benevolent drug dealer working on a book while Sylvia uses the internet to lead a double life.  These four people try to recognize the people they have become in a time that totally Fubar. A new play by the writer and story editor of Showtime’s hit series “Dead Like Me.”

The cast features Dan Patrick Brady, Ryan McCarthy, Jerry Richardson, Lisa Velten Smith and Stephanie Szostak.

The design team includes Kevin Judge (set), Ben Hagen (lights), Emily Pepper (costumes) and Shawn Boyle (video).  The composer and sound designer is Amit Prakash.

Karl Gajdusek (playwright) is a San Francisco native, now living in Los Angeles. Karl's plays have been produced across the country and in New York.  They include Fubar, Fair Game, Silverlake, North, Minneapolis, Dr.s F.s in the Terminal Ward, Big Sun Setting Fast, The Gilded Garden of Patcheww, Malibu, and Waco, Texas, Mon Amour. Screenplays include Shanghai, Widow's Walk, Reunion, The Next Best Thing (not the one with Madonna), Higher, The Condemned (co-authored),
and the newest film for WWE star John Cena, Brother’s Blood (also co-authored).  Karl was a Story Editor on the Showtime show Dead Like Me, creating 4 of the 2004 Season episodes.  He founded the script publication service, Big Sun Publication. He is the recipient of the 1991 Jacob K. Javits fellowship, the 1996-97 & 1998-99 Jerome Fellowships, the 1997 McKnight Screenwriting Fellowship, the 2000 McKnight Advancement Grant, and the 2005 Clubbed Thumb Biannual Commission. B.A. from Yale University, member of Annex Theatre in Seattle, M.F.A. from the University of California at San Diego. He is a member of New Dramatists in New York City.

Larissa Kokernot (director) has been working in the professional theatre for over 25 years, beginning as an actor in Minneapolis with companies such as The Guthrie Theater, The Children’s Theatre, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Ten Thousand Things and Eye of the Storm where she
served as Artistic Associate for six years.  With Eye of the Storm she directed Bridget Carpenter’s Death of the Father of Pyschoanalysis (& Anna), Skylight, and Two Sisters and a Piano as well as the “Seeds” of many new plays for the company’s annual Seed the Storm Festival. Other directing credits include, The Real Thing, The Cardinal Points; North, Touch by Toni Press Coffman at The Playwright’s Center Hothouse Festival, Spin Moves by Ken Weitzman at The Bay Area Playwright’s
Festival, The Suspects for The Guthrie/U of M B.F.A. program and Red Noses for Ten Thousand Things, as well as numerous workshops at The Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis.  Larissa received her B.A. in Theater from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Directing from the
University of California, San Diego where she directed The Seagull, Desperados in Dreamland, As You Like It and Two Hands, Very Tired. She also received a Jerome Travel/Study Grant to train with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company.

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