ALL DAY SUCKERS Plays 14th Annual Fringe Fest 8/13-29

New Feet Productions and Adam Blanshay, in association with The Present Company, present the World Premiere of the dark political comedy ALL DAY SUCKERS by playwright/author Susan Dworkin (THE NAZI OFFICER'S WIFE, THE VIKING IN THE WHEAT FIELD), directed by Jessica Bauman (MILK, INTO THE HAZARD (HENRY 5)) - as part of the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival with five performances only, between August 13-29 at the Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Studios (440 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor) in Manhattan.

Susan Dworkin's timely; pitch black comedy ALL DAY SUCKERS tells the story of Bryce, a yuppie princess who seems to have it all. Great job? Check. Successful lover? Check. Brilliant future? Check. Then her father suffers a stroke, and *poof,* her bright future begins to dim as she is tossed into the maddeningly surrealistic world of the health care economy, where doctors rush by like shooting stars and "Insurance Sprites" lurk under every bed, oozing charm, spinning songs and playfully spreading paranoia. Will Bryce beat the system or will the system beat her?

ALL DAY SUCKERS will feature an original score by Susan Dworkin (music & lyrics), performed on ukulele by Adam Wilson.

Directed by Jessica Bauman, ALL DAY SUCKERS features a cast of Sarah Grace Wilson (THE STORY), Sarah Nina Hayon (Drama Desk Award nominee for REARVIEWMIRROR), Melissa Wolff (EMBERS), Margaret Daly (Mint Theatre's IS LIFE WORTH LIVING & A DELICATE BALANCE at The Guthrie), Ryan McCarthy (Broadway's AFTER MISS JULIE), and Paul Carlin (AFTER THE BALL).

Design team for ALL DAY SUCKERS is: Scenic Design - Marjorie Bradley Kellogg (THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS, MOOSE MURDERS); Lighting Design - Sarah Lurie; and Costume Design - Amanda Jenks.

Susan Dworkin is a prolific novelist, playwright, Peabody Award-winning Television writer and National Book Award nominee. Her plays include: THE BOOK OF CANDY: A MODERN AMERICAN FOLK MUSICAL, THE MIAMI DIG, THE OLD MEZZO, THE FORGOTTEN LOVER, The Farm BILL, and SOLOMON'S CHILDREN. Her novels include: "Stolen Goods," "Miss

America 1945," "Making Tootsie," "Weeding Out the Tears," "Lost in the System," "The Nazi Officer's Wife," and "The Viking in the Wheat Field."

Jessica Bauman - founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions - has been working as a director in New York and regionally for more than 15 years. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of FUDDY MEERS by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA) and the O'Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge. Most recently, she directed INTO THE HAZARD (HENRY 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V; and Emily DeVoti's MILK at the HERE Arts Center. For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed Terrence McNally's TEACHERS BREAK with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney and Harrison Rivers' AND IT SEEMS TO ME A VERY GOOD SIGN with John Krasinski, Naomi Watts, Sam Rockwell and Amber Tamblyn . She is a graduate of Yale College.

Producing credits for Adam Blanshay include: last year's Fringe hit HIS GREATNESS by Daniel MacIvor, Scott Nevins' ONE NIGHT STAND (New World Stages), Scott Nevins' RECE$IONI$TA & CELEBUTANT (National Tours), and the upcoming Broadway production of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS (Associate Producer). His directing credits include: Associate Director on Piaf: Love Conquers All, (winner of the 2007 FringeNYC Award for "Outstanding Musical,"). Addition credits include: The Black Monk (Theatre Row/Beckett Theatre), The Second Tosca (45th Street Theatre), Clean (Urban Stages), A Woman of Will (Daryl Roth Theatre); Opera: La Bohème, Tosca (Regina Opera, Brooklyn NY), Le Nozze di Figaro (Modus Opera, NYC), Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Le Médecin Malgré Lui (IVAI, Tel Aviv). Mr. Blanshay also directed the most recent Montreal revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita (Moyse Hall).

ALL DAY SUCKERS will perform at the Robert Moss Theatre at 440 Studios (440 Lafayette Street, 3rd Floor) as part of the 14th Annual New York International Fringe Festival, on the following dates: Thursday, August 19 at 2:30pm; Saturday, August 21 at 9:30pm; Sunday, August 22 at 12noon; Thursday, August 26 at 8:45pm; and Saturday, August 28 at 4:15pm. General admission tickets are $15; and will be available starting July 23rd on-line at www.FringeNYC.org or via phone by calling 1-866-468-7619, or in person - beginning July 30th - at FringeCentral (1 East 8th Street).

For more information on ALL DAY SUCKERS visit www.Fringenyc.org or www.AllDaySuckersPlay.com.

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