Barnard College Joins New Georges For NEW PLAYS AT BARNARD 3/1-3

The Department of Theatre at Barnard College has initiated a collaboration with the award-winning nonprofit company New Georges to launch "New Plays at Barnard," a program to showcase works by emerging playwrights. The inaugural production brings Lauren Feldman's The Egg-Layers to the stage. The show runs March 1-3 in the Glicker-Milstein Theatre of The Diana Center on Barnard's Morningside Heights campus. For details, please visit http://barnard.edu/events/egg-layers.

"Being in New York means our students have a unique opportunity to participate in all aspects of the theatrical process and the collaboration here is a perfect example." said W.B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts and Chair of Barnard's Department of Theatre. "'New Plays at Barnard' represents a key departmental initiative with regard to theatre as a mode of inquiry and speaks directly to the College's mission of producing new forms of thinking and creation."

The Egg-Layers riffs on the Greek myth of Leda and the swan, and brings this disturbing story powerfully into the present: a performance of healing, revenge, and a search for the divine. The play is directed by Barnard Assistant Professor of Professional Practice Alice Reagan. "We're proud to present Lauren Feldman's provocative work as the first installment of 'New Plays at Barnard,'" Reagan said.

"We're excited and honored that New Georges is the first participant in 'New Plays at Barnard,'" said New Georges Artistic Director Susan Bernfield. "It's been a great pleasure to introduce the work we do downtown to Barnard's diverse and impressive body of students, and we're thrilled that the partnership brings with it the opportunity to support our company's artists and see a new play all the way through to production. We always want to see more of that!"

The Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre, which is named for Cheryl Glicker Milstein '82 and Philip Milstein, is a state-of-the-art performance space used by professionals in addition to students and faculty in Barnard's acclaimed theatre program.

About the Department of Theatre
The Department of Theatre at Barnard College sponsors the undergraduate major in theatre for Barnard College, and for Columbia College and the School of General Studies at Columbia University. Situated at the intersection of the arts and humanities, undergraduate programs engage drama, theatre, and performance studies as a distinctive mode of intellectual and artistic inquiry. An internationally recognized faculty works with students specializing in theatre and performance studies, acting, design, directing, dramaturgy and playwriting. For more information, visit http://theatre.barnard.edu/

About Barnard College
The idea was bold for its time. Founded in 1889, Barnard was the only college in New York City, and one of the few in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education available to men. Today, Barnard is the most sought-after college for women and remains dedicated to the education of strong, independent-minded women who change the world and the way we think about it. For more information, visit barnard.edu.

About New Georges
New Georges has premiered 36 new full-length plays and 11 festivals of new work; hundreds of original works have passed through New Georges' workspace, The Room, on their way to venues in New York City and beyond. Their production of Eisa Davis' Angela's Mixtape was one of The New Yorker's "Best Off-Broadway Shows of 2009;" and Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear was a Time Out New York "Top Ten of 2007" and transferred to the Vineyard Theatre in 2008. Honors include an OBIE Award as well as awards from New York Women's Agenda, Princess Grace Foundation/USA, Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays and FringeNYC. In 2009, The L Magazine named New Georges among its "Best of NYC;" and a study published by TDF, OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE: The Life and Times of the New American Play, lists New Georges as one of the top 10 theaters nationwide named by playwrights as a leading producer of their plays. For more information, visit http://www.newgeorges.org/.

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