Clubbed Thumb Sets Full Schedule & Casting for 20th Annual SUMMERWORKS

Five-time Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb is proud to announce casting for SUMMERWORKS, its annual series of new plays. Now in its 20th season, SUMMERWORKS will run May 20th through June 29th at The Wild Project (195 E 3rd Street) in Manhattan, and will feature productions of three new plays: D DEB DEBBIE DEBORAH by Jerry Lieblich, directed by Lee Sunday Evans; CARD AND GIFT by Kate E. Ryan, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll; and MEN ON BOATS by Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by Will Davis. Festival passes are now on sale at https://www.artful.ly/clubbedthumb/store/passes, and individual tickets can be purchased at https://www.artful.ly/clubbedthumb.

D DEB DEBBIE DEBORAH will star Brooke Bloom (You Got Older), Geoff Sobelle (The Object Lesson), Nick Choksi (Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812), Stacey Yen (Eager To Lose) and Kate Benson (Good Person Of Szechwan).

A creepy intruder, a needy boyfriend and a stalled-out career are shaking Deb's already wobbly sense of self. Her latest assistant gig, and the strange project it entails, just might topple her. D Deb Debbie Deborah is a voyage into a bizarre and unsettling world where losing your identity means losing it all. D DEB DEBBIE DEBORAH is written by Jerry Lieblich and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, and will May 20 through May 30, 2015.

CARD AND GIFT will star Mia Katigbak (Scenes From A Marriage), Ella Dershowitz (Intimacy) and Laura Esterman (Marvin's Room - Drama Desk and Obie Award), with additional casting to be announced.

It's Primary Season, and the country may be changing, but for Lila and Annette--stuck in a small town shop in New Hampshire--everything seems frozen. In Card and Gift, the employees outnumber the customers, the price labels are out of date, and the tourists don't come anymore. Does it really matter who wins the presidency? CARD AND GIFT is written by Kate E. Ryan and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, and will run June 4 through June 14, 2015.

MEN ON BOATS will star Kelly McAndrew (Almost, Maine), Kristen Sieh (RoosevElvis), Donetta Lavinia Grays (In The Next Room), Hannah Cabell (A Man For All Seasons), Danaya Esperanza (Our Lady of Kibeho), Birgit Huppuch (Telephone - Obie Award), Danielle Davenport (An Octoroon), Becca Blackwell (Room For Cream), Layla Khoshnoudi (My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer) and Jess Barbagallo (House of Dance).

Ten explorers. Four boats. One Grand Canyon. Men on Boats is the true(ish) history of an 1869 expedition, when a one-armed captain and a crew of insane yet loyal volunteers set out to chart the course of the Colorado River. MEN ON BOATS is written by Jaclyn Backhaus and directed by Will Davis, and will run June 19 through June 29, 2015.

With its track record for discovering and supporting new playwriting talent - in many cases providing writers with their very first production in New York or anywhere - SUMMERWORKS is one of the most eagerly-anticipated theatrical offerings of the year.

Highlights from the previous 19 festivals include the NYC premieres of Gina Gionfriddo, Jordan Harrison, Lisa D'Amour, Jason Grote and Sarah Ruhl; professional debuts of Rinne Groff, Sylvan Oswald, Clare Barron, Susan Stanton and Ariel Stess; and new work by Anne Washburn, Adam Bock, Gregory Moss, Jenny Schwartz, Ethan Lipton, Erin Courtney and Sheila Callaghan, who all continue to make Clubbed Thumb an artistic home.

Past SUMMERWORKS directors include Pam MacKinnon, who also serves as Clubbed Thumb's Board Chair, Lear deBessonet, Anne Kaufman, Davis McCallum and Ken Rus Schmoll.

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