Clubbed Thumb Summerworks Festival To Be Held At The Ohio Theatre 6/2-26

Obie Award-winning Clubbed Thumb proudly presents Summerworks 2010, their 15th annual festival of new plays, from June 2 to 26, 2010, at the Ohio Theatre, located at 66 Wooster Street, between Spring & Broome, in Soho, NY. Tickets are $18 for adults and $15 for students and can be purchased online at www.TheaterMania.com or by calling 212-352-3101. Train access to The Ohio via the R, W to Prince St. or 6, C, E to Spring St. For more information about Clubbed Thumb call 212-802-8007 or visit http://www.ClubbedThumb.org.

The festival's three shows will run consecutively, Sundays-Saturdays at 8pm (no shows on Wednesdays). Dot, written by Kate E. Ryan and directed by Anne Kauffman, plays June 6 - 12, Five Genocides, written by Samuel D. Hunter and directed by Davis McCallum, plays June 13 - 19 and The Small, written by Anne Washburn and directed by Les Waters, plays June 20 - 26.

An opening night event entitled "Hot Dish" will take place on Wednesday, June 2 at 8pm. At "Hot Dish", Clubbed Thumb will throw ingredients from this year's plays at a group of artists and let thEm Loose on the pillars. Free admission for all.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Dot (June 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12)
In which old Dot and the weird kid from the neighborhood become friends. Set in that kind of Florida town that makes you wonder: Is this TV, a book, or maybe even a cabaret?

Written by Kate E. Ryan (member of 13P) and directed by Obie Award-winner Anne Kauffman (The Thugs at Soho Rep, This Wide Night with Naked Angels) with original music by Mike Iveson (The Sound and the Fury and Gatz with ERS, Richard Maxwell's Ode to the Man Who Kneels, and Sibyl Kempson's Crime or Emergency). Featuring David Brooks, Kate Hopkins, Birgit Huppuch, Ed Jewett, Lynne McCollough and Mary Shultz. The design team consists of Jason Simms (Set), Garin Marschall (Lights), Olivera Gajic (Costumes) and Jessica Paz (Sound).

Five Genocides (June 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19)
In which Katie is determined to finish writing that book - even if she didn't start it. Lucky there's a new co-worker at the Fashion Bug to help since her in-laws are deluded, drunk and dog-obsessed.

Written by Samuel D. Hunter (I Am Montana at London's Arcola Theatre) and directed by Davis McCallum (Queens Boulevard at Signature Theater, Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue with P73--2007 Pulitzer Prize Finalist). Featuring Charlotte Booker, Crystal Finn, Barret O'Brien and additional cast TBA. The design team consists of Dane Laffrey (Set), Russell H. Champa (Lights), Jessica Trejos (Costumes) and Jill Du Boff (Sound).

The Small (June 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26)
In which a man struggles to assemble a reality from his dreams, the dog very much wants to be taken for a walk and the Natural Food store isn't.

Written by Anne Washburn (The Internationalist at The Vineyard Theatre, Apparition) and directed by Obie Award-winner Les Waters (In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) on Broadway, Big Love) with original music by Dave Malloy (Space//Space and Beowulf with Banana Bag & Bodice, 2009-11 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers). Featuring Maria Dizzia, Matthew Maher, Susie Pourfar and additional cast TBA. The design team consists of Louisa Thompson (Set), Jane Cox (Lights), Kirche Leigh Zeile (Costumes) and Bray Poor (Sound).

Clubbed Thumb commissions, develops and produces funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers. Since its founding in 1996, the company has earned 4 OBIES and presented plays in every form of development, including over 75 full productions. Clubbed Thumb is an incubator for artists and their work, staging plays to critical acclaim while supporting an ever-growing creative community. Funny, Strange, Provocative, an anthology of plays produced by Clubbed Thumb, is available through Playscripts.

Clubbed Thumb is delighted to announce that it has recently been awarded multi-year support for artistic initiatives from the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The Theater Program of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "seeks to fund leading theaters of all sizes that contribute to the advancement or preservation of theater as an art form and which are characterized by distinctive and ambitious artistic programming, a commitment to artists, intellectual relevance, and the capacity to engage audiences. Its goals are to help artistic leaders who are "swimming upstream" to continue to take artistic risks; to support processes that will improve the quality of work being produced; and to support collaborations between organizations that develop, premiere, and mount second and third productions of a work. It also endeavors to support long-term commitments to artists by institutions."

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