New Ohio Theatre Hosts Encore Run Of Ice Factory Festival Hit Show DEAR DIARY LOL

New Ohio Theatre proudly presents an encore performance of the hit of the 2018 Ice Factory Festival, DEAR DIARY LOL, created by Antigravity Performance Project and co-directed by Francesca Montanile Lyons and Michael T. Williams. DEAR DIARY LOL runs from September 26 - 29, 2018 at New Ohio Theatre, located at 154 Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets in New York City.

Performances are Wednesday - Saturday at 7:30pm. Tickets are $20. Purchase at http://NewOhioTheatre.org or by calling 212-352-3101.The running time is 80 minutes. For info visit http://NewOhioTheatre.org.

DEAR DIARY LOL is an ensemble-driven comedic theatre work born verbatim from the real-life tween-teen diaries of the show's creators. Antigravity's devising ensemble of high-octane women invite you to cringe, laugh and cry at their most earnest desires, deepest fears, secret shames, and terrible poetry written as coming-of-age girls in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Stage Biz raved, "It's the funniest show I've seen in ages...the audience went ballistic at curtain call - and rightly so, this one's a keeper," while Opplaud cheered, "????? This is one trip down memory lane that's definitely worth taking!" Exeunt Magazine said, "We absolutely need more theater like this," and Theatre Is Easy described the show as "relatable as it is funny...beneath its hot-pink surface beats a tender heart and the universal queries of adolescence."

Created and performed by Antigravity Performance Project with Kelly Conrad, Alicia Crosby, Nikki Hudgins, Jessica Johnson, Francesca Montanile Lyons (Lead Artist), Jenna Strusowski, Megan Thibodeaux and Michael T. Williams.

The production team includes Alicia Crosby and Megan Thibodeaux (Set & Prop Design), Kate McGee (Light Design) and Tom Carman (Sound Design). Costumes by the Ensemble. Produced by Eleanor Regan with Michael T. Williams and Antigravity.

Diaries by Alicia Crosby, Nikki Hudgins, Naomi Inoshita, Sarah Knittel, Francesca Montanile Lyons and Megan Thibodeaux.

Antigravity Performance Project is a devising company with a creative aesthetic rooted in play, ensemble, movement, music, and performance text. As an interstate company, Antigravity makes work in RI, PA, and NY led by Kym Moore (Providence, RI), Francesca Montanile Lyons (Philadelphia), and Michael T. Williams (New York City). Their 4 full-length interdisciplinary works include Yermedea Raw (2012 - called "energizing and frightening" by The New York Times), Nellie/Nellie (2014), Dear Diary LOL (2017/18) and Do Eye Know You? (2015/2020). In development: Legal Tender, an ensemble-driven collaboration powered by poet-performer Kyle Dacuyan. For info visit https://AntigravityPerformanceProject.org, follow on Instagram at @antigravityperforms (https://www.instagram.com/antigravityperforms) and Like them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/antigravityperforms.

New Ohio Theatre is a two-time OBIE Award-winning theatre under the leadership of Robert Lyons, Artistic Director, and Marc Stuart Weitz, Producing Director. The New Ohio serves New York's most adventurous theatre audiences by developing and presenting bold work from today's vast independent theatre community. They believe the best of this community, the small artist-driven ensembles and the daring producing companies who operate without a permanent theatrical home, are actively expanding the boundaries of where American theatre is right now and where it's going. From their home in the West Village's historic Archive Building, the New Ohio provides a high-profile platform for downtown's most mature, ridiculous, engaged, irreverent, gut-wrenching, frivolous, sophisticated, foolish and profound theatrical endeavors. The theatre is accessible from the #1 train to Christopher St. or A, B, C, D, E, F or M train to West 4th St. For info visit http://NewOhioTheatre.org.

Michael T. Williams is Co-Artistic Director of Antigravity Performance Project and a Brooklyn-based ensemble and physical performance artist. His work mines the interdisciplinary territories between theatre and the greater performing, visual, and literary arts. With Antigravity and solo Michael has worked with La MaMa, Soho Rep, New Ohio, Williamstown Theatre Festival, FringeArts, Pig Iron, MCC, Trinity Rep, and in Arena Stage's 'Downstairs Series' and 'Voices of Now' Festival. Michael teaches full-time for the Humanities Department at CUNY City Tech. (http://michaeltimothywilliams.com)

Francesca Montanile Lyons is a Philly-based director, performer, and educator born and raised in Puerto Rico. She is Co-Artistic Director of Antigravity Performance Project. Her theatrical work centers women's experiences and perspectives while investigating a wide range of themes - mental illness, reality tv, adolescence, sexuality and climate change. Her credits include Lillian Ransijn's Rough & Tumble (Director), The Hopefuls (Creator/Performer), Butter & Serve's Slaughter/ette (Creator/Performer), and Antigravity's Nellie/Nellie (Creator/Performer). Look out for Fourth Quarter, a new work premiering in the First Person Arts Festival in Philadelphia November 5 - 7. (http://www.francescamontanilelyons.com)