April Ranger's BATHSHEBA'S PSALMS To Premiere At The Tank In April

The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) will present the World Premiere of Bathsheba's Psalms, Or A Woman of Unusual Beauty Taking a Bath by April Ranger (Must Wash Hands at Brooklyn College), directed by Christina Roussos (Magic Trick with Caps Lock Theatre) at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues), April 4-21.

Performances will be on Thursday, April 4 at 7pm, Friday, April 5 at 7pm, Saturday, April 6 at 7pm, Sunday, April 7 at 7pm, Thursday, April 11 at 7pm, Friday, April 12 at 7pm, Saturday, April 13 at 7pm, Sunday, April 14 at 7pm, Thursday, April 18 at 7pm, Friday, April 19 at 7pm, Saturday, April 20 at 7pm, and Sunday, April 21 at 7pm Tickets ($36 VIP; $20 General; $15 Student) are available for advance purchase at www.thetanknyc.org. The performance will run approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission.

A sexy, irreverent take on the infamous Old Testament "love story" of David and Bathsheba. From a biblical rooftop to a modern-day Duane Read and beyond, this unruly adaptation capsizes tropes on gender, desire and power. A revelry of sensuality & snark! And fruit, obviously!

The cast will feature C. Bain, Marisela Grajeda Gonzalez (Variations on the Main at JACK), Elizabeth Kenny* (Men on Boats with Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons), Tanyamaria (Locked up Bitches at The Flea), and TL Thompson* (Reality Winner Project with Half Straddle) with Lighting and Scenic Design by Itohan Edoloyi (Detroit '67 at Riverside Theater), Sound Design by Caroline Eng (Madonna Col Bambino at the New Ohio), and Costume Design by Karim Rivera Rosado (Royal Jelly at The New Workshop Theater). *Appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association.

April Ranger (Playwright) writes plays. Her full-length plays include Must Wash Hands and Bathsheba's Psalms, Or A Woman of Unusual Beauty Taking A Bath, which received workshop productions at Fault Line Theatre (NYC) and the Pegasus PlayLab (Orlando, FL.) Her short play The Sandwich Program premiered at The Public Theater in August 2018 as part of the 'Bring A Weasel and A Pint of Your Own Blood' Festival. Her first full-length play, Streetsweepers, was the recipient of the Nicole duFresne Playwriting Award. She studied with Erin Courtney and Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College, and is an alum of Poetic Theater Productions' Conscious Language program. April is currently a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writer's Group.

Christina Roussos (Director) Credits include the premiere of Nectar by Katie Baldwin Eng, Axial Theatre, Hippos of the Eastern Enclosure by Jen Silverman as part of Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellowship/Winterworks, the premier of Radium Now by Kate Benson at Brooklyn College, Magic Trick by Mariah MacCarthy with Caps Lock Theatre, The Reveal by Kim Gainer at The Brick and Judson Church, I Didn't Want a Mastodon by Halley Feiffer at Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Stranded on Motor Parkway by Dan Fingerman with ELR Productions. Christina has worked with Theater Breaking Through Barriers (Associate Director 2009 - 2012), Clubbed Thumb (2017 Directing Fellow), and the New Georges Jam. Her work has appeared at the Kennedy Center (After Breakfast, Maybe by Bekah Brunstetter), Rattlestick Theater Jam (The Avenging of Kruppcake by Mariah MacCarthy), and on Norwegian radio (series of audio plays for Cabinet Magazine for Performa 13). She was a '15/'16 Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College and teaches in the MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts. BA Emerson College, MFA Brooklyn College.

The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter and producer. Our mission is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form, and to do so in an environment that is inclusive and accessible. We serve over 2,000 artists every year in over 800 performances, and work across all disciplines, including theater, comedy, dance, film, music, puppetry, and storytelling. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in our two-stage theater complex Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other services such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, artist fees, and much more. We support work at all phases of development, from readings and residencies to fully-produced world premieres. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all.

Recent Tank-produced work includes Drama Desk-nominated productions Ada/Ava (2016), youarenowhere (2016), The Paper Hat Game (2017), the ephemera trilogy (2017), and The Hunger Artist (2018), as well as New York Times Critics' Picks The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman, directed by Meghan Finn (2016) and Red Emma & The Mad Monk by Alexis Roblan, directed by Katie Lindsay (2018). www.thetanknyc.org

 

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