QUICKSAND, Adapted From Nella Larsen's Seminal Harlem Renaissance Novel, Makes NYC Premiere At IRT Theater

Everyday Inferno Theatre Company is thrilled to present the world premiere of QUICKSAND, adapted from Nella Larsen's novel by Regina Robbins and directed by Anaïs Koivisto. QUICKSAND begins performances on Saturday, December 1 for a limited engagement through Saturday, December 15. Press Opening is Monday, December 3 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Wednesday - Saturday at 7:30 PM, with added performances on Sunday 12/2 at 2 PM and 7 PM, Monday 12/3 at 7:30 PM, Friday 12/7 at 3 PM, Sunday 12/9 at 7:30 PM, Tuesday 12/11 at 4 PM and 8 PM. Performances are at the IRT Theater (154 Christopher Street, between Washington and Greenwich Streets, near the 1 and 2 trains at Christopher Street Station, and the A, B, C, D, and E at West 4th). Tickets are $20; VIP tickets are available for $35 and include reserved seating and a free drink. Five $5 tickets are available for each performance as part of Everyday Inferno's 5@$5 affordable ticket program. For tickets and more information, call Brown Paper Tickets on 800-838-3006 or visit www.everydayinferno.com.

Regina Robbins adapts Nella Larsen's seminal Harlem Renaissance novel QUICKSAND for the stage. Helga Crane is the daughter of a Danish white mother and West Indian black father. Dancing between the liminal space of two worlds - one black, one white, both male-dominated - Helga embarks on an epic journey through the deep South, Denmark, Chicago, and New York. Does she find the community she's been searching for? Or does her disillusionment drag her down like quicksand? With auto-biographical nods to Larsen's own life, Regina Robbins' jazz and gospel-infused adaptation drives a compelling story that transcends traditional narratives of race and gender.

The cast features Tommy Coleman (American Dreamer with Jim Gaffigan), Malloree Hill, Veronique Jeanmarie, Tyler Johnson, Carole Denise Jones (Broadway: The Book of Mormon), Michael Anthony Jones, Gabrielle Laurendine, Ava Sofia Mattox, Sam Ogilvie, Michael Quattrone, Monica Rodrigues, Marissa Stewart, and Chris Wight.

The design team includes Tekla Monson (scenic and property design); Gilbert Pearto (lighting design); Asia-Anansi McCallum (costume design); and Grace Oberhofer (sound design). Allison Beler is the Choreographer and Movement Consultant

Anaïs Koivisto (director) has directed for New Light Theater Project, Pipeline Theatre Company, the Sam French OOB Festival, Match: Lit, Spicy Witch Productions, Looking Glass Theatre, 3V, and CORE Artists' Ensemble. She is the Artistic Director of Everyday Inferno Theatre Company, holds a BFA from Boston University and has studied at LAMDA and ACT.

Regina Robbins' (playwright) plays include Enter Attendant, Disguised (Expanded Arts), Not a Dream (Six Figures Theatre), and It's Just the Radio (Winner: Best Production, Best Playwright, and Audience Favorite at the Looking Glass Theatre's Spring 2012 Forum). Regina has had staged readings presented by Identity Theater Company, The Directors Company, and EITC. Other company associations: Horizon Theatre Rep, Untitled Theatre Co. #61. BA, Yale University; MFA, Columbia School of the Arts; MA, CUNY Graduate Center

Nella Larsen (author of Quicksand) was a mixed-race American author of the Harlem Renaissance, now known primarily for her two full-length published novels, Quicksand and Passing. Born in Chicago to a white Dutch mother and a black West Indian father at the turn of the century, and raised by a white family in a white immigrant community following her father's death, Larsen's upbringing was unusual for mixed race children of the period. Larsen was educated at Fisk University, and lived for a time in Denmark, before returning to America to enroll in nursing school in New York City. During her varied career, she taught at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, worked as a nurse at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and for the NYC Bureau of Public Health, married the black Physicist Elmer Ives, and was the first black female graduate of the NYPL Library School, before becoming an established and active writer in the Negro Awakening in Harlem. Larsen struggled with depression for most of her life. In 1933 she was divorced and disappeared from Harlem and public life, eventually returning to nursing.