NY Neo-Futurists Present (un)afraid At The Living Theater, Opens 10/14

NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS are pleased to present their final prime-time show of the season, (un)afraid, written and performed by Jill Beckman, Cara Francis, Ricardo Gamboa & Dan McCoy, directed by Rob Neill. (un)afraid will be presented at the historic Living Theater (21 Clinton St, NY 10002). Performances begin Thursday, October 14th and continue through Saturday, November 6th. Opening Night is Thursday, October 14th (at 7 P.M.).

Press are cordially invited Thursday, October 14th at 7:30 pm; Friday, October 15th at 7:30 pm; Saturday, October 16th at 7:30 pm.

Tell us your secret ghost story. Tell us your fever dreams. Tell us why you fear your fellow human being. The New York Neo-Futurists' Fall 2010 horror show and fear experiment, (un)afraid, celebrates and examines the concept, causes and consequences of fear, both in our society and in ourselves. Attempting to summon a different guest spirit each performance, from such deceased masters of horror as Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, M.R, and James. The New York Neo-Futurists call upon the forces of chance and change to present a different show every night, putting expectations on shaky ground and melding our mythical fear of what goes bump in the night with the terror of simply living. Combining elements of personal ghost story, video assault, monster-mash-mayhem, and audience-interactive freak-out, Neo-Futurists Jill Beckman, Cara Francis, Daniel McCoy & Ricardo Gamboa will usher you beyond the very edge of their and your, most startling, gruesome, and diabolical fears. Welcome to our nightmare.

Jennie Miller is the producer; Liz Jenetopulos is the set & prop designer; Hunter Kaczorowski is the costume designer; Lauren Parrish is the technical director and lighting designer; Christopher Loar is the sound designer; Adam Smith is the video designer. Laura Shlachtmeyer is the stage manager, and Shane Reader is the assistant stage manager.

(un)afraid has the following schedule through Saturday, November 6th:

Thursdays at 7:30 pm
Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm & 10:30 pm

Additional Performances:

Monday, October 25th at 7:30 pm
Wednesday October 27th at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, November 3rd at 7:30 pm

Tickets are $18.00 ($12 Student rush with valid I.D.) Advance tickets can be purchased online at www.nynf.org, or by calling 212-352-3101. Tickets may also be purchased at the theatre?s box office half hour before curtain.

Running Time: 60 minutes. No Intermission.

In preparation for (un)afraid, Jill, Cara, Ricardo and Daniel have broken into a mental institution, summoned the spirits of gamblers and animals on a mountain, and will soon conduct four fear experiments right here in New York City. Keep an eye out to catch them, or spectate from a safe distance by watching their video blogs.

For more information about (un)afraid, visit www.nyneofuturists.org
For updates and video blogs, visit www.beunafraid.blogspot.com

BIOGRAPHIES

Jill BeckMAN (Writer /Performer) is a member of the New York Neo-Futurists, with whom she is a regular writer and performer in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. She also was a co-writer and performer in NYNF's Laika Dog in Space at the Ontological Hysteric last Fall, and is supremely excited to be bringing Laika to her sweet home, Chicago, for a 6 week run at the Neo-Futurarium in Feb. 2011. She has also worked with a lot of other great companies, like Target Margin, The Foundry, Big Dance Theater, 3 Legged Dog, Saga Theater, and Westbeth Entertainment.

Cara Francis (Writer/Performer) is a writer, director, performer and ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists, writing for and performing in Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, The Soup Show, and now (un)afraid. She has performed and had work presented at PS122, The Kraine Theater, The Old Vic, The Public Theater, HERE, The Ontological-Hysteric, The Flea Theater, The Players Theater, The Tank, LAVA, The Arthur Seelen Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Galapagos Art Space, Draw-A-Thon, Bowery Poetry Club, The Slipper Room and was a Spring 2009 Short Form Artist at the Ontological-Hysteric. Cara is one-half of the musical powerhouse Fantasy Grandma, and is currently shooting a film, Welcome To Nowhere, with Temporary Distortion.

Ricardo Gamboa (Writer/Performer) is excited about his Neo-debut with (un)afraid. He is an actor, artist, playwright, poet and filmmaker. He is a recent transplant from Chicago where he was Artistic Director of Teatro Americano and Company Member of Barrel of Monkeys. Here in New York City he has been artistic and self-righteous with the Hemispheric Institute, on stage in Spanish and English at INTAR, and re-defining gender norms one young mind and short film at a time with Scenarios USA.

DANIEL MCCOY (Writer/Performer) Ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists since 2009 and frequent writer/performer in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes). Daniel has premiered non-Neo plays the last two years in the New York International Fringe Festival: Group in 2010 and Eli and Cheryl Jump in 2009. His other plays include Sympathy, Goddamn Gorgeous Mess, The Downtown Daylight Project, Don?t Talk to Strangers and Peek. These plays and others have been produced and workshopped across the country with such theatres and companies as The Flea Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Highwire Theatre, State-of-Play Theatre, No Tea Productions, 13th Street Rep, Gene Frankel Theatre, Elephant Theatre Company, Source Theatre Festival, Soul Invictus Gallery, Stage Q Theatre, Ignited States and Crosstown Playwrights, a company of writers he co-founded in 2007.

ROB NEILL (Director) is the Managing Director and a founding ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, the National Theater Institute, and Grinnell College. He has written, directed and performed Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind in both New York and Chicago since 1995. His plays have appeared at the Ontological, P.S. 122, HERE, BB Kings, Cherry Lane, and The Kraine, as well as in Chicago and Los Angeles. In addition to two books of poetry, Rob?s plays are included in the most recent Neo-Futurist books. Performance credits include: Broadway: London Assurance; London: The Cherry Orchard; Regional: You Never Can Tell, Tartuffe, and The Real Thing; Off-Off Broadway: Spring Awakening, Hamlet and Doughboy.

THE NEW YORK NEO-FUTURISTS are an ensemble of dynamic writer/performer/directors who present the critically acclaimed, energetic show of original short plays, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind--a non-illusory collage of the comic and tragic, the political and personal, the visceral and experimental, while embracing chance, change, and chaos. Developing out of the format that has been a success in Chicago since 1988, the New York Neo-Futurists have roots in NYC from the mid 90?s. Since opening TML in New York, they have created over 2000 plays and continue to present new and vital work every weekend in the East Village. For more info: www.nynf.org

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