Horse Trade Theater Group & The Management Present Crystal Skillman's Cut

Danno, Rene and Colette all know the truth: reality is written, reality is planned. As reality TV show writers their job is to pull out the drama - capture that hair pulling, perfect table flip showdown! But when they are forced to re-cut the season finale to their Housewives rip-off "The Ladies of Malibu" in three hours, not only do their jobs hang in the balance, but their own sanity, as they're forced to confront the real truth of how their choices have hurt one another.

The full-length version of CUT was commissioned by and developed with The Management (based on a ten-minute version presented by Special Sauce Company). The production will feature Nicole Beerman*, Megan Hill*, and Joseph Varca. *Appearing courtesy of the Actors' Equity Association

"If Quentin Tarantino were to direct his own version of Office Space, it may come close to the level of comic firepower that is produced from this spot-on comedy by the incredibly talented Crystal Skillman."
Michael Roderick, Broadway World (Hack!)

"Just when you thought archaic forms of torture had lost their sex appeal... Skillman's usually canny play cuts a jagged swath between drama and thoughtful discourse on the topic of torture."
Mitch Montgomery, Backstage (Critics Pick for The Vigil or the Guided Cradle)

"Skillman picks up details of the trappings of our lives and makes them sing resonantly."
Martin Denton, nytheatre.com (Birthday)

CUT, presented by The Management as residents of Horse Trade Theater Group, will play a three week engagement at UNDER St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place between 1st Ave and Ave A), May 19-June 4, Thursday through Saturday at 8pm. Tickets ($18/$15 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444.

CRYSTAL SKILLMAN (Playwright) is a Brooklyn based playwright. Her play The Vigil or the Guided Cradle won the 2010 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Script, and was directed by John Hurley for Impetuous Theater Group at the Brick Theater. Other plays include: Birthday, which was directed by Daniel Talbott for Rising Phoenix Rep, and by Sharon Willems in London at the Waterloo East Theatre this past August; Nobody and Telling Trilogy, (Rising Phoenix Rep). Hack! an I.T. Spaghetti Western (Impetuous Theater Group/The Brick Theater); Crawl, directed by Colette Robert for Red Fern Theater (Gentrifusion); Killer High for director Hope Cartelli (Piper McKenzie/Vampire Cowboys Saloon Series). This June her work will be featured in The Brick's Comic Book Theater Festival (Mrs. Perfect & The Unexpected Visit of Evil!; Action Philosophers On Stage!) and her play Perfect will be produced in LiveGirl's Quickies festival this June 3rd-18th in Seattle. She is currently developing Geek, a new play commission for the Obie-Award winning company Vampire Cowboys as well as The Sleeping World with director Daniel Talbott for an EST member workshop. Her new play for Rising Phoenix Rep, Sex and Death in London will be produced October 23rd in their Cino Nights series this fall. In Spring 2012 she will be the resident playwright at Overturn Theater Ensemble and this spring her plays Birthday and Nobody will be published by Samuel French.

MEG STURIANO (Director) is a teacher and director. For The Management, she has directed Joshua Conkel and Megan's Hill's Lonesome Winter, Joe Tracz's Song for a Future Generation, Dorothy Fortenberry's Caitlin and the Swan (AD), and the first episode of Joshua Conkel's soap opera, Sinking Hearts at Dixon Place as part of the 2010 HOT! Festival. Other recent directing highlights include the world premier of Julia Brownell's Extraordinary Circumstances (Trevor Project Benefit); Joshua Conkel's I Wanna Destroy You (EST's Bloodworks '09), Pia Wilson's End of the World (New Perspectives), and her own adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges. Meg studied theater at Connecticut College, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, the Lee Strasberg Institute, and the Moscow Art Theatre School. Meg is co-Artistic Director of The Management and currently teaches and directs at Hunter College High School in Manhattan and at Acting Manitou in Maine.

THE MANAGEMENT creates a haven for a community of artists and patrons to experience relevant, moving, unpretentious, aesthetically and financially accessible theater. We are known for our dark whimsy and critical exposés on American culture, while building rock-solid, visceral entertainment. Previous productions with Horse Trade include: The Chalk Boy, The Scandal! (2009 NYIT Award nominee for Outstanding Short Script), Caitlin and the Swan, MilkMilkLemonade (New York Press Best Off Off Broadway Show of 2009; 2010 NYIT Award for Best Actress, Jennifer Harder), Song for a Future Generation, and Lonesome Winter.

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work, it has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade's Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York - the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

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