FORECLOSURE Comes To The Samuel French Off-off Broadway Festival 7/16

“Foreclosure,” a one-act play about a middle-class family caught up in the calamity of today’s fierce economic downturn, has been selected from over 700 plays to be one of the “Final 40” during the week-long Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival beginning July 14, 2009. It will be presented at 9:00PM on Thursday, July 16th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street) in Manhattan.

Written by eight time Festival participant George Cameron Grant, this poignant and topical drama tells the story of Faith, a wife and mother who, witnessing the world closing in on the home and family she loves, embraces the solution fate unexpectedly provides to save them. The production is directed by Vince Bandille, and features Olivia Horton, Andrew Langton, Louis Michael Sacco, Jon Freda and Charles Gould.

“Faith and her family live next door. They’re our neighbors, friends, relatives, in-laws and co-workers. They are real people living out a modern day tragedy that now engulfs the American dream,” said Grant. “If ‘Foreclosure’ gives voice to the vulnerability and fear so many of us live with on a daily basis, I’ll have done my job.”

Grant is the author of six full length plays, over twenty one-act plays and countless monologues.

His evening of holiday plays, “4X’MAS,“ has just been published by Baker’s Plays.

For more festival info on the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, visit www.samuelfrench.com/oobfestival. For ticket purchase, call Ticket Central (212) 279-4200 or visit: www.ticketcentral.com.

Born and raised in the Bronx, Grant resides in Long Island’s south shore village of Freeport. Having just completed a series of staged readings of “In Search of Alice,” his second original musical created in collaboration with composer Michael J. Shapiro, Grant is also a prolific song writer, whose repertoire of compositions includes “Pass on the Love,” featured in the Great Performances presentation of Spike Lee’s “Do it a Capella.” He has just completed his fourth screenplay “Double Exposure,” and has twice participated in the New York Independent Film Market.

Grant is also the recipient of Advertising’s prestigious ADDY® Award, which he received for his work on August Wilson’s “Fences.” He has designed numerous posters for major film releases, including the Oscar® winner “Monster.” He is the father of two girls, Elizabeth and Jenna, and a member of the BMI and the Dramatists Guild. For Grant’s complete catalogue of material visit: www.georgecamerongrant.com.

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