NY Theatre Workshop Hosts Mondays@3 Reading THE OCEAN ALL AROUND US

The Ocean All Around Us, a new play by David Lavine, will be given a staged reading by New York Theatre Workshop on Monday, March 7 at 3pm as part of its Mondays@3 development program. Ted Sod directs.

The Ocean All Around Us is a powerful, haunting play that unfolds entirely in reverse. After a young artist's paintings are destroyed in a studio fire, he struggles to piece together a chain of life-changing events. His older brother, a psychiatrist, tends to him while facing his own transgressions from years past.

The play was a recent Finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and was given a staged reading at Abingdon Theatre Company in September as part of its First Reading series.

David Lavine has had productions in New York and regionally (CA, NJ, PA, OH, FL), including Emerging Artists, New Jersey Rep, Fleetwood Stage, Shetler Studio, and both the New York and Columbus Fringe Festivals. Plays and selections have also been re ad at Naked Angels and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Another play, Poking Kitty Purple, was an O'Neill Finalist, and Smugglers Three earned The Other Paper's Heidi Award for Best Original Short. Publication includes "4 Plays by David Lavine," Original Works, and monologues in "The Ultimate Audition Book," Smith and Kraus.

Ted Sod's NYC directing credits include How to Be A Good Italian Daughter In Spite of Myself (Cherry Lane Theatre), Blood Type: Ragu (Actors' Playhouse) and Who Popped Papi Chulo? (NYIFF), which Lavine co-wrote with creator Dan Domingues. Sod will act in Urge For Going by Mona Mansour at The Public Theatre in March and April.

The cast of The Ocean All Around Us includes Jeremy Bobb (Cactus Flower, Is He Dead?), Demosthenes Chrysan (Aftermath, Blood and Gifts), Kerry Malloy (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Dance Dance Revolution) and Eric T. Miller (Sweet Storm, Betrayed). All actors are members of Actors' Equity Association.

The reading will be at New York Theatre Workshop, 83 East 4th Street, 3rd floor, on Monday, March 7 at 3pm. Admission is free. Reservations and questions may be directed to David Lavine (lavined@earthlink.net).

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