Partial Comfort Presents AFTER. From Sept 14 - Oct 8

Partial Comfort Productions follows up its 3-time Drama Desk Award nominated and Obie Award-winning production of Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise with the World Premiere of Chad Beckim's AFTER. (formerly titled A Good Ending). Stephen Brackett directs. Previews begin September 14 at The Wild Project where Partial Comfort is a resident company. Opening night is slated for September 21.

In AFTER., a wrongfully imprisoned man is exonerated by DNA evidence. After seventeen years in prison, he is forced to re-assimilate into a cold, foreign world of toothbrush shopping, doggy day care, and a friendship with an anxious young woman with secrets of her own.

AFTER. stars Alfredo Narciso (Thinner Than Water), Debargo Sanyal (Invasion!), Maria Christina Oliveras (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Andrew Garman (A Bright New Boise), Jackie Chung (Microcrisis) and Jeff Wilburn (Booty Candy) with costumes by Whitney Locher, sound by Daniel Kluger, set by Jason Simms, and lighting by Eric Southern.

Chad Beckim is a New York City based playwright whose writing credits include ...a matter of choice, `nami (which received its West Coast premiere at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles in October, 2007), Lights Rise on Grace (Winner, Outstanding Play, 2007 FringeNYC; Finalist for the 2007 Princess Grace Award; Finalist for Ojai Playwrights' Conference), The Main(e) Play (Semi-Finalist, The O'Neill Festival), That Men Do (Member of The Lark's 2009 "Playwright's Week"), Mercy and Cookie. He has also authored a number of shorts and one-acts, including Tha Bess Shit, Alexander Pays a Visit, Last First Kiss, and Marvel Super Hero Squad, and is currently at work on his original television series "The Family." Chad holds an MFA in Playwrighting from Mac Wellman's Brooklyn College's Program, and in July of 2007 was named one of "50 Playwrights to Watch" by the Dramatists Guild. His work has been published by Playscripts, Smith & Krauss, and in the Plays and Playwrights 2007 collection by NYTE. He is a member of Ars Nova's "Play Group," and is a co-Founder and co-Artistic Director of Partial Comfort Productions.

Stephen Brackett most recently directed Be A Good Little Widow by Bekah Brunstetter at Ars Nova. Other credits include Trixie and Monkey: All or Nothing created with Kim Rosenstock (Ars Nova), Nick Jones and Rachel Shukert's The Sporting Life (Studio 42/Vineyard Theater), Dylan Dawson's Cinemediocracy (Ant Feast), Dan Fishback's You Will Experience Silence (Dixon Place), Sam Forman and Eric Davis' F#@king Up Everything (NYMF), Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective), Bixby Elliot's PN1923.45LS01 Volume 2 (FringeNYC), Whore and The Ones That Flutter (SPF/Public Theater), and Kilroy Was Here: A Styx Rock Opera (Williamstown). He is a co-founder of The Bushwick Hotel with playwright Rachel Shukert; their collaborations include Johnny Apple@#%*er (Ice Factory), Sequins for Satan (Galapagos Art Space) and Bloody Mary (Third Man Productions). Stephen was the Assistant Director of Passing Strange at the Public and Belasco Theaters. He is a founding member of 425D Director's Lab, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the 2010 Director in Residence at Ars Nova, and a company member of Partial Comfort Productions. Upcoming: The Tenant with Woodshed Collective.

Partial Comfort Productions is a collaborative ensemble devoted to the development and presentation of original new theater. The company was co-founded in 2002 by Chad Beckim and Molly Pearson. Past productions include Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise, Thomas Bradshaw's The Bereaved (Best of 2009, Time Out New York), a trio of acclaimed works by Beckim (nami, The Maine Play and ...a matter of choice), Ross Maxwell's Open House (Best Ensemble Award winner at FringeNYC 2006); Craft and Nelson by Sam Marks; Kidstuff by Edith Freni, Booty Candy by Robert O'Hara; and Play by OHara, Chay Yew, Kia Corthron, Eddie Sanchez, Keith Adkins and Tracey Scott Wilson. For more information visit www.partialcomfort.org.

AFTER. runs September 14 - October 8, Wed. - Sat. 8:00pm. The Wild Project is located at 195 E. 3rd Street b/w Aves A. & B. Tickets are $18, available beginning August 15th at 212-352-3101 or www.thewildproject.com.

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