Horse Trade and Spookfish Theatre to Present ADVANCE GUARD World Premiere, 5/8-19

Horse Trade Theater Group and Spookfish Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of ADVANCE GUARD by Ming Peiffer, May 8-19 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street). The production will be directed by Kat Yen (Pornography for the People; The ABC's Guide to Getting Famous) and will feature David M. Farrington, Ben Kaufman, Alesandra Nahodil, Eamon O'Rourke, Matt Stillo, and Mari Yamamoto. The creative team will include Lighting Design by Porsche McGovern and Set Design by Norihito Moriya.

Art school dropouts, Willy and Milo, find themselves struggling to make ends meet let alone make art. After a series of hijinks, including stealing a famous painting, the boys find themselves following a mysterious artist with a cult-following, Paul a.k.a. "The Prophet". Occupy Wall Street meets Fight Club meets the Art World.

The production will run May 8-19 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery); Wednesday through Saturday May 8-11, Thursday through Saturday May 16-18, and Sunday, May 19 at 2pm. Tickets ($18, $15 students & seniors) are available online at www.horseTRADE.info or by calling Smarttix at 212-868-4444. The show will run 90 minutes, with no intermission.

MING PEIFFER (Playwright) is a critically acclaimed playwright based in NYC. Works include: Pornography For The People (HERE Arts Center, Kraine Theater, Theater for the New City), RELAX! ALICE (June Havoc Theater, Nominated for 5 Midtown International Theater Awards including "Outstanding New Script"), WABI SABI! Not Wasabi (Theater For The New City, described by the New York Times as "Aware...") The ABC's Guide To Getting Famous (The Red Room, "Brilliant"-Cultural Capitol, "Ingenious"- The Local East Village) The Privilege of Death (Co-Writer, Gene Frankel Theater). Ming was 1 of 6 female playwrights selected for New Perspectives Theater Company's 2012-2013 Women's Work Project where she developed the play CEREAL. She will begin her Columbia University MFA Playwriting candidacy this Fall '13.

KAT YEN (Director) is the Co-Artistic director and Resident Director of Spookfish Theatre Company as well as a Lincoln Center Directors Lab Member. Recent NYC directing credits (all world premieres): Pornography for the People (Theater for the New City, The Kraine, HERE Arts), The ABC's Guide to Getting Famous (co-produced by Horse Trade at The Red Room), Relax! Alice (NY Times headliner for MITF at June Havoc), WABI SABI! Not Wasabi (NY Times headliner for Dream Up Theater Festival at Theater for the New City) and The Privilege of Death (Gene Frankel). Recent directing credits for a staged reading include Time Flies, Degas C'est Moi, and Speed The Play at Primary Stages. Other projects by Kat include The Talk, written and directed by her put on at LAByrinth Theater as part of their Ensemble Workshop and Homeless Kitty, a guerilla puppet show performed on NYC subways.

SPOOKFISH THEATRE COMANY is a group of diverse young artists committed to making inventive and explosively theatrical artwork that exposes underlying issues concerning self-identity and the human condition that are continually underrepresented or misrepresented in our society. By providing a multicultural lens through artistic collaboration in which mixed media and original text serve as the forefront, we explore issues of race, gender, sexuality, and socio-economics with a unique style and voice that challenges audiences to explore their own volatile worldview. As multi-ethnic theatre artists, we believe in exploring our art as a true reflection of the world we live in, and thus, actively seek gender and race equality concerning our casting, subject matter, and hiring opportunities.

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work that 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. In 2011 Horse Trade received the New York Innovative Theatre Ellen Stewart Stewardship Award for demonstrating a significant contribution to the Off-Off-Broadway community through service, support and leadership.

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