Photo Flash: First Look at SOMETHING SUDDEN 5WEPT 0V3R ME at Planet Connections

SOMETHING SUDDEN 5WEPT 0V3R ME, a new play written by Steven Mark Tenney and directed & choreographed by Susan Tenney, began performances at the Robert Moss Theatre (440 Lafayette Street, NYC) on June 5th as part of the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially-conscious arts festival. The benefitting organization for this production is Rainforest Alliance. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

SOMETHING SUDDEN 5WEPT 0V3R ME, an otherworldly new play from siblings Steven Mark Tenney and Susan Tenney, is their 10th collaboration. It is the story of a graduate student, Norbit Ufowatchin, who is about to leave the field of Advanced Alien Artifacts, assume a prestigious residency, and write The Novel of His Life, when he is entrusted with a device capable of changing planetary history.

The cast of SOMETHING SUDDEN 5WEPT 0V3R ME features Halli Herzog (Gossip Girl) in the role of Slink Vixen Obsidian, Asol Karim in the role of Mist-Rain-Waves-Tears, Marek Sapieyevski (winner of the 2009 Planet Connections Award for Best Actor in a Comedy) in the role of Norbit, and Richard Welton as the Professor. Joining the actors are dancers Rina Barrantes (principal dancer with the National Ballet of Peru) Samantha Gullace, Yukari Osaka, and Natalie Robison.

The design team includes Joe Novak (Lighting), Beth Lake (Sound) and Janet Mervin and Dominique D. Pino-Santiago (Costumes).

Steven Mark Tenney has written full-length plays, one-acts, and performance pieces integrating text and dance that have beenproduced at many venues in New York City and regionally. His work has been called "wildly imaginative and highly entertaining" by the Miami Sun Post. His play PIECE FOR AN AUDITION was a winner of the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Competition. He was recently a resident at New York Stage and Film, developing a new sci-fi opera WHAT'S APPROPRIATE ON A FIRST DATE WITH AN EARTHLING.

Susan Tenney's work has been produced by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Edinburgh InterNational Theatre Festival, Tanglewood, Princeton University, Rider University, and in many venues in New York City. She has staged several Broadway benefits and cabarets and was for many years resident choreographer at the Williamstown Theater Festival. She has receivedfive commissions from the Princeton Coalition for Peace Action. Most recently she was a Directing participant at La Mama's International Directing Symposium in Umbria Italy. Her work has been called "expansive, reaching, stunningly dramatic" by The Princeton Comment and "terse and elegant" by the Village Voice.

The Planet Connections Festivity is New York's premiere eco-friendly/socially conscious not-for-profit arts festival which fostersa diverse cross-section of performances. Planet Connections strives to make sure their artists are living as green as possible. Some tactics include using a "ticketless" box office with reusable tickets which will be collected from audience members as they enter the theatre and hosting a Green Theater Forum to encourage and educate artists to go "green" within their productions. This year's festival will include thirty productions, each one with its own benefitting organization.

SOMETHING SUDDEN 5WEPT 0V3R ME will play the following schedule: Wednesday, June 5th at 6:00pm, Saturday, June 8th at 4:00pm, Sunday, June 9th at 11:00am, Monday, June 10th at 7:30pm, Tuesday, June 11th at 9:30pm andSunday, June 16th at 2:00pm. Tickets are $18. For further information, visit www.PlanetConnections.org or http://planetconnections.org/something-sudden-5wept-0v3r-me/.

Photo Credit: Julie Lemberger

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