HOW TO SELL YOUR GANG RAPE BABY* * FOR PARTS to Play FRIGID New York 2017

puss&puss has announced the upcoming production of Libby Emmons' How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby* *for Parts, directed by Michele Travis.

The play runs for five performances, Saturday 02/18 6:40 pm; Monday 02/20 7:10 pm; Saturday 02/25 8:20 pm; Monday 02/27 10:30 pm; Saturday 03/04 3:20 pm, in the FRIGID Festival, at The Kraine Theater at 85 East 4th Street. Tickets are $20 and will go on sale January 15 at www.horseTRADE.info. More info pussnpuss.wordpress.com.

In How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby* *for Parts, we find our heroines, Libby & Ali, toiling away in the HR office of a large company. Hating their jobs, but afraid to leave (because paycheck), the ladies are thrilled when a sure-fire money making opportunity lands in their laps. The Trump-loving, life-affirming intern Bev Anne got knocked up the hard way, and though she's pro-life (natch) she doesn't want the baby. Enter Libby & Ali, who help her realize that this one, small life can save the lives of many. In How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby* *for Parts, Libby & Ali risk it all, for the greater good.

How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby* *for Parts has been a labor of love for co-producers and co-stars Ali Ayala and Libby Emmons. The duo have been performing together in Emmons' short, irreverent, plays since 2007, but with the original incarnation of How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby* *for Parts, their performance project took on a political dimension. The play began as short play "Puff Puff" for the Sticky series, inspired by the Duke lacrosse team rape trial. At the initial performance, comedienne Jacquetta Szathmari said, "It's ballsy. It's like you just rolled a big ol' scrotum right in here." The play grew into a one-act, winning the coveted "most offensive" award at Szamthmari's Festival of the Offensive in New York. Once the country elected an ignorant narcissist for president, Emmons and Ayala immediately agreed that the time for a retooled, reTrumped, How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby* *for Parts was at hand. Emmons calls it a "post feminist romp through a morally relativist landscape," while Ayala suggests that,"the play is not for the faint of heart."

How to Sell Your Gang Rape Baby* *for Parts runs for 5 performances, Saturday 02/18 6:40 pm; Monday 02/20 7:10 pm; Saturday 02/25 8:20 pm; Monday 02/27 10:30 pm; Saturday 03/04 3:20 pm, in the Frigid Festival, at The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street. Tickets are $20, via www.horseTRADE.info. More info at pussnpuss.wordpress.com.

Libby Emmons' (writer, co-star, co-producer) plays include "Soft Little Song Like Doves" (Best Short Plays 2016, Smith & Krause), "Animal/Animal" (Best Short Plays 2013, Smith & Krause),, "The Worm Turns at the Fort Peck Hotel" (New York Theater Review 2009). Her latest play, Hippopotamus, is currently in development. Libby is winner of the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission in 2009, was commissioned by Williamstown Theater Festival in 2007, nominated for the Dramatists Guild's Wasserstein Prize, finalist or semi-finalist for the Yale Drama Series, O'Neill Award, Heideman Award, BBC International Radio Play Competition. Recent play productions include: I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know) Under Saint Marks, NYC 2016; "Sing Your Life," The Morrissey Plays, Theater Pub, San Francisco, CA; "Interface Interface," Chelsea Theater, London, England, 2015; and Radio Mara Mara, FringeNYC, 2013. Co-producer Sticky series from inception through 2016. Emmons holds an MFA from Columbia and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. @li88yinc

Hailing from the mountains of North Carolina, Ali Ayala (performer, co-star, co-producer) is a director and performer. She co-produced the Sticky short play series in New York from 2008 through 2016, prior to which she was the resident director of the series. While in residence at Bowery Poetry Club from 2007 through 2012, she directed dozens of plays for the series. She directed plays by Libby Emmons, Jesse Wann, Alex Beech, Michael Domitrovich, David Marcus, Adam Szymkowicz, Sheila Callaghan, Jon Kern, and commissioned plays from J. Michael Gray, including the wildly successful "Barflies" series, among others. Ali directed Emmons' The Sustainable Future (Galapagos Art Space- original Williamsburg location), Connie in Detroit (TARTE Festival, Abingdon Theater), I Am Not an Allegory (these are people i know) (Bowery Poetry Club 2012, Under Saint Marks 2016), Radio Mara Mara (FringeNYC, The Kraine), The Little Room (The Hive), Eyes of the Prophet (New Voices Festival, Columbia University), and collaboration Eschaton Cabaret (Bowery Poetry Club and Dixon Place). She is a graduate of Wake Forrest University, and eschews all social media.

Michele Travis (director) has directed plays in Lower East Side storefronts, Brooklyn basements, Manhattan black boxes, and Boston nightclubs. She is head of the Directors' Company for NY Madness, currently in residence at the Kraine Theatre. MFA, Brooklyn College CUNY. micheletravis.com

Michele O'Brien (stage manager) is a director and actor based in Brooklyn, NY. Directing and assisting credits include The 24 Hour Musicals (AD), Delayed (Director), and F#%king Up Everything (AD). Acting credits include She Holds Her (Women in Theatre Festival 2016), Telling (Fresh Fruit Festival 2015), and Winfluence (Looking Glass).

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