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The Primary Stages Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) presents 7even 7even 7even.

Seven new plays. Seven emerging directors. At the Seventh Street Small Stage.

ORIGINAL TEN MINUTE PLAYS BY Courtney Baron, Cusi Cram, JESSICA DICKEY, Meg Gibson, MEGAN MOSTYN-BROWN, DANIEL REITZ AND KEN URBAN, DIRECTED BY ANNA CAPUNAY, HARRY EINHORN, ROSE GINSBERG, HILARY KRISHNAN, DAN ROGERS, AIMEE TODOROFF AND JENN WOMACK.

August 9th at 8pm- ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY at the SEVENTH STREET SMALL STAGE, 43 EAST SEVENTH STREET(6 TO ASTOR PLACE, R/W TO 8TH STREET, F TRAIN TO 2ND AVE)

Seven emerging directors from Daniel Talbott's Site-Specific Directing Class at ESPA have commissioned seven playwrights to write new pieces to be staged in the intimate and close quarters of the Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43. In this final project of the class each playwright and director will work in close collaboration to explore how place informs art, how art transforms a place, and how that intersection changes an audience. This event is free and open to the public.

TICKETS ARE FREE - SEATING IS EXTREMELY LIMITED! RESERVATIONS REQUIRED.

Reserve Tickets by emailing name and number of tickets to: ESPAat7thStreet@gmail.com

Please consider your reservation confirmed unless you receive an e-mail response stating otherwise.

Daniel Talbott (Instructor) most recent work as an actor includes the Theatre for One project in Times Square and around NYC, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Master Builder (Irish Rep), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Tartuffe (McCarter Theatre/Yale Rep), Marat/Sade (Classical Theatre of Harlem) and the feature film Pretty Bird and The Big C on Showtime. Recent directing work includes Footprint by Mac Rogers (part of +30NYC for Red Fern Theatre), Afterclap by Daniel Reitz, Birthday and Nobody, both by Crystal Skillman (Rising Phoenix Rep at the Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43), The Umbrella Plays (the teacup company/FringeNYC - Overall Excellence Award: Outstanding Play), Fall Forward (Sitelines/River to River Festival produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council), and The Reaching (Rising Phoenix Rep). His play Slipping was produced at Rattlestick last summer with Piece by Piece Productions (named one of the top ten plays of 2009 by The Advocate), premiered in Chicago at The Side Project in Chicago, was part of the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and will be published this year by Dramatists Play Service. His play What Happened When was produced at HERE Arts Center and The Side Project and was published as part of the Plays and Playwrights 2008 anthology. He received a 2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for directing, a Drama-Logue Award, two Dean Goodman Choice Awards and a Judy Award for acting, and was also named one of the 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a member of this year's 24Seven Lab, a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre's ATP, and a teacher at the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA). He is one of the literary managers of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and is the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep (recipient of the 2007 NYIT Caffe Cino Fellowship Award).

Anna Capunay is a current member of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater's Playwriting Workshop, and she is expanding her endeavors to include the ESPA Site-Specific Directing class.

Harry Einhorn is a performer, composer, director, and singer who has worked throughout New York City. His ongoing project is "Heart Sutra", a musical staging of a Buddhist text, co-composed with Philippe Treuille. h.einhorn@gmail.com

Rose Ginsberg is an artistic associate at the Looking Glass Theatre (Ready, Set, Story!: How Katie Saved the Sneaky Spider's Tales and others), and a company member at Manhattan Repertory Theatre (The Proposal/The Bear, Antigone). She has also directed productions at the Flea Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Harbor Opera, Dixon Place, and the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. rose.ginsberg@gmail.com.

Brooklyn-based director Hilary Krishnan is Artistic Director of Mainspring Collective, a company dedicated to nurturing and developing multi-disciplinary work, collaborating with emerging playwrights and devising plays with ensembles. Please visit mainspringcollective.com for more information.

Dan Rogers is a Brooklyn-based director, producer, tech director and actor. He has worked with The Brick, Woodshed Collective, Studio42 and Vampire Cowboys. He got his BA at Brown University, where he received the Weston Fine Arts Award for Directing. You can reach him at dyrogers@gmail.com, he is always interested in working on new plays.

Aimee Todoroff is an award winning performer (Obie Award, Sinclair Foundation Award for Excellence in Performance), and has directed numerous new works for emerging NYC theatre companies, including the east coast premier of Martin Blank's "The Law of Return." aimeeltodoroff@gmail.com.

Jenn Womack has directed regionally, indie NYC theater and children's theater, from Wendy Wasserstein to Rocky Horror. www.jenniferwomack.com, jennwomack@gmail.com

The Primary Stages Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) is an interdisciplinary institution where students may hone their skills and develop their careers in a nurturing and collaborative environment. The School provides extensive opportunities for emerging artists, professionals, and life-long learners to collaborate with working professional artists while building strong relationships within the New York theater community. www.primarystages.org/ESPA

Photo: Scene from "Uncle Vanya" directed by Hilary Krishnan in the Avery Fisher Hall lobby

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