New Georges Premieres Trish Harnetiaux's HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS at The Brick Tonight

Coming off of their Obie Award winning production of A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Great Lakes at City Center in January and the critically acclaimed Heartbreak at The Bushwick Starr in May, New Georges announces their final production of 2015, the World Premiere of HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS by Trish Harnetiaux (If You Can Get to Buffalo with Incubator Arts Project) at The Brick (579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn; www.bricktheater.com) as part of The Brick's Resident Artist program, tonight, December 3-19.

The production will be directed by Katherine Brook (She is King at Incubator Arts Project's Other Forces Festival) and feature downtown superstars Jess Barbagallo (House of Dance with Half Straddle), Mike Iveson (Gatz with Elevator Repair Service), Kristine Haruna Lee (A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes with New Georges), Tina Shepard (Talking Band), Jacob A. Ware (Agent Selby on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire"), and Stephanie Weeks (The Past is Not a Foreign Country with Soho Rep) with Sound Design by Chris Giarmo (Resident Composer for Half Straddle), Choreography by David Neumann (Futurity with Ars Nova/Soho Rep), and Lighting Design by Josh Smith (Feeling with Glass Bandits at The New Ohio).

HOW TO GET INTO BUILDINGS takes an exploded view of love, in which confusion blends with confidence, time keeps shifting, amateurs are experts, and brunch can be fatal.

As a blueprint for her play, Harnetiaux used the structure of exploded view: an illustration or diagram used in manuals (for lawnmowers, bicycles, computers) that shows an object's parts apart from the whole, but in positions that indicate their relationship to it. Roger and Lucy meet in a convention hall, Daphne and Nick break down at a diner, their stories intertwine as the play swirls around you, rotating on its axis, to articulate the experience of love, with its alternating moments of intimacy and isolation.

Performances will be Tuesday through Saturday at 8pm with additional shows on Saturday, December 12 and Friday, December 18 at 4pm. Tickets ($18)are available online at www.newgeorges.org or by calling 866-811-4111.

TRISH HARNETIAUX (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been performed and developed at the Incubator Arts Project, Soho Rep, Dixon Place, Little Theatre, the Culture Project, the Prelude Festival, The Cherry Lane, 78th Street Theatre Lab, and Ars Nova. Full length plays include If You Can Get To Buffalo (NYC - Incubator Arts Project / Baltimore - Acme Corporation / Los Angeles - Son of Semele), How To Get Into Buildings (Dec. 2015 World Premiere @ The Brick produced by New Georges; developed in Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab), Welcome to the White Room (Baltimore - Glass Mind Theatre), a Shirley Jackson adaptation (The Bird's Nest) Your Pretty Little World, and Straight On Til Morning (78th Street Theatre Lab/Broadway Play Publishing). Harnetiaux received her MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College and has been a fellow at The Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony and SPACE on Ryder Farm. She is an Affiliated Artist of New Georges and a member of the Ars Nova Play Group. As a co-creator of Steel Drum in Space her short films and sketch comedy have appeared all around the world-wide-web and beyond. www.trishharnetiaux.com

KATHERINE BROOK (Director) is a director of new experimental plays and performance, and makes original work collaboratively with her theatre company, Katherine Brook / TELE-VIOLET. Her work has been presented at various venues in New York City and beyond, including The Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, Incubator Arts Project, Prelude NYC and more. Recent credits include She Is King (with Laryssa Husiak, at Incubator Arts Project, and Boom Arts in Portland, OR) and Pink Melon Joy (Brave New World Rep and Cloud City in Brooklyn, NY). Brook is a creative producer at The Foundry Theatre, and is currently an artist-in-residence at University Settlement in New York City for the development of Tragedy in Spades: A Crime Documentary. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she has also worked as a guest director.

NEW GEORGES has premiered 43 new full-length plays and 11 festivals of new work; hundreds of original works have passed through The Room, New Georges' workspace, on their way to venues in New York City and beyond. Notable productions have included: Kate Benson's A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes(Obie Awards for playwright and director); Lynn Rosen's Goldor $ Mythyka; Kara Lee Corthron's AliceGraceAnon; Peggy Stafford's Motel Cherry (Huffington Post Top Ten); Sylvan Oswald's Nightlands; Heidi Schreck's Creature; Eisa Davis'Angela's Mixtape (New Yorker Top Ten Off Broadway Shows); Jenny Schwartz's God's Ear (Time Out New York Top Ten); Wendy Weiner's Hillary: A Modern Greek Tragedy With a (Somewhat) Happy Ending; Susan Bernfield's Stretch (a fantasia); Sheila Callaghan's Dead City (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Deb Margolin's Three Seconds in the Key(Kesselring Prize); and Lisa D'Amour's Anna Bella Eema.

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