JEANNINE'S ABORTION to Premiere at The Brick 5/24-5/27

In late June, Hope Cartelli from Piper McKenzie (the creators of the recent Fight Fest hit Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury) and Eric Bland of Old Kent Road Theater (Death at Film Forum published in the NYTE anthology Plays and Playwrights 2009) will present the world premiere of Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester, which follows Jeannine and several of her peers over three months in New York City, during which time they exist with one another and Jeannine has an abortion.

Jeannine's Abortion will be directed by Hope Cartelli (2009 NYITA-nominated The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice) and is written by Eric Bland (currently premiering Are We Bourgeois Mon Amour? (A Psycho's Analysis) in The Bushwhack Series at The Bushwick Starr). Casting is near completion and currently features Siobhan Doherty, Sarah Engelke, Morgan Anne Zipf, Jeff Lewonczyk, and Emily Perkins.

Jeannine's Abortion: A Play in One Trimester will play Thursday, June 24 at 8:45pm, Friday, June 25 at 7pm, Saturday, June 26 at 2:30pm, and Sunday, June 27 at 6:30pm as part of the Too Soon Festival at The Brick (575 Metropolitan Avenue between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street, Brooklyn). Tickets, which are $18, may be purchased online at www.bricktheater.com or by calling 1-866-811-4111.

Piper McKenzie (pipermckenzie.com) has been a fixture of the downtown and Brooklyn scenes since being founded by Hope Cartelli and Jeff Lewonczyk in 1998. Called "brazenly experimental, unapologetically populist, and surprisingly endearing" by IndieTheater.org, Piper McKenzie creates mock-epic movement theater and kinetic plays/musicals at the intersection of physicality, comedy and mythology (both pop culture and historical). Recent shows include the Fight Fest success Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury; the 2009 FringeNYC hit Willy Nilly: A Musical Exploitation of the Most Far-Out Cult Murders of the Psychedelic Era; the NYITA-nominated The Granduncle Quadrilogy: Tales from the Land of Ice; the popular serial Lady Cryptozoologist at the Vampire Cowboys Saloon.and the Bizarre Science Fantasy dance-theater series, whose most popular installment, Macbeth Without Words, was performed at 2007's Pretentious Festival at The Brick.

The Old Kent Road Theater situates idiosyncratic ensemble pieces against the chaos and concrete of New York City, seeking authentic, evocative performance committed to the comedy of desire, the physicality of loss, and the possibility of new open spaces. Founded in 2005 by Eric Bland and Scott Eckert, the Old Kent Road Theater has been invited to perform at various downtown theaters including The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Brick, Dixon Place, and The Bushwick Starr. OKRT plays have been noted for their ‘vibrant characters...heartfelt passion, and spirited volleys of non sequiturs' (Village Voice) and described as ‘downtown theatre at its best' (New York Cool.com). Martin Denton of nytheatre.com recently noted, ‘Eric Bland is turning into the Woody Allen of his generation, possibly.' www.oldkentroadtheater.com

The Brick was founded in 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a yoga center, and various storage spaces, this brick-walled garage in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was completely refurbished as a state-of-the-art performance space. Since then, The Brick has launched, produced and presented hundreds of world-premiere stage works from New York emerging artists and theater-makers from around the globe. The theater company is a proud member of New York's burgeoning Indie Theater community and informal home to an ever-expanding family of artists and avid theatergoers and the winner of the New York Innovative Theater Awards Caffé Cino Fellowship Award 2009.

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