Photo Flash: Inside The Rehearsal Room For RUNNING: A NEW PLAY At New York Theater Summerfest

Rehearsal is underway for award-winning playwright and creator/host/producer of Your Program Is Your Ticket Sean Chandler's new play Running: A New Play featured in the upcoming 2019 New York Theater Festival's Summerfest. Mark Robert Finley directs.

Running: A New Play is the story of closeted-gay mayoral candidate Ed Shirko who is outed in a public and lascivious manner and must contend with its effects on his embattled campaign, while coming to terms with his wife Camille, daughter Cassidy, son Justin and Vice Mayor running mate Leslie Marks.

Running: A New Play will play the New York Theater Festival's Summerfest Tuesday, August 20th @ 6:15pm, Saturday, August 24th @ 9:00pm and Sunday, August 25th@ 1:30pm at the Hudson Guild Theater. Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4241879

The Running: A New Play cast includes David Leeper (Stupid F*****g Bird, Secret Identity) as Ed Shirko, Laura MacLean (The Alan Parson's Show, Bad Ass Beauty) as Camille Shirko, Jay William Thomas (Stupid F*****g Bird, Deathbed, Orphans, Pillowman) as Justin Shirko, Dineen Markey (Senior - Marymount College Acting BFA Program) as Cassidy Shirko and Laura Leigh Carroll (God of Marz, The Babylon Line, Picnic) as Leslie Marks.