'Raised by Lesbians' to be Part of Fringe Fest.

Geek Ink, a theater company dedicated to celebrating the geek in all of us, announces the New York premiere of Raised by Lesbians, a selection of the 12th Annual New York International Fringe Festival – FringeNYC.  Raised by Lesbians is written by Leah Ryan and directed by Dev Bondarin.  

Raised by Lesbians will be performed on the following dates:
Saturday, August 9th at 11.00pm
Monday, August 11th at 4.45pm
Friday, August 15th at 7.45pm
Tuesday, August 19th at 5.00pm
Thursday, August 21st at 10.00pm

Raised by Lesbians will be performed at the Barrow Street Theatre (FringeNYC Venue #11), 27 Barrow St. (at 7th Avenue, south of Christopher Street).

Raised by Lesbians is part of FringeNYC's FringeHIGH program, a group of plays chosen for their relevance to the lives of young adults.  The performance on Monday, August 11th, has been designated an official FringeHIGH performance and will include a talkback with the director and others after the performance. 

For more information, please visit www.raisedbylesbians.com.

Joe is 16. He can't decide whether to live with his mom or his dad. Meanwhile, his best friend Gracie puts him at the center of her silent, Super 8 movie, and his stepmother quilts everything that isn't nailed down. His dad is badgering him about his manhood. His mom has a new girlfriend. Joe isn't sure if other kids call him names at school because his mom is a lesbian, or just because they think he's a dork.
 
Raised by Lesbians is an American comedy that unfolds in high school hallways, in endless holiday letters, in a mad scientist's laboratory, and at The Mall, where no sixteen-year-old wants to be seen with his parents, lesbian or otherwise.
About Geek Ink

Geek Ink is a not-for-profit company dedicated to producing challenging, high-quality entertainment by presenting an examination of ideas with a liberal dose of irreverent humor.  We seek to nurture a diverse theatrical community that includes people of all backgrounds on both sides of the curtain. Toward this goal, we are committed to making the cost of theater-going within reach of all New Yorkers.

Leah Ryan (Playwright) graduated from the Julliard Playwrights program and the Iowa Playwrights workshop. She was commissioned by Gorilla Rep, The Acting Company, and Epic Theatre Center. She collaborated with comic/performer Kate Rigg on Birth of aNasian (featured in the Mark Taper Forum's Asian Theatre Festival in June 2004) and on a piece for "Brave New World: American Theater Responds to 9/11" at Town Hall in New York. Ryan's play Chopper was nominated for the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre by Wildfire Productions. She also worked extensively with the Powderhouse Summer Theater Program at New York Stage and Film on productions of modern adaptations of Chekhov. Besides writing plays, Ryan was also an author of fiction and non-fiction. She edited the anthology For Here or To Go (Life In The Service Industry) and her short fiction appeared in a number of anthologies and literary magazines.  Leah Ryan passed away on June 12, 2008. Geek Ink is proud to present Raised by Lesbians and give voice to her work.  (For more information, please visit www.leahryan.com.)

Dev Bondarin (Director) holds a MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College and BA in Theater Arts/Art History from Brandeis University. NY Directing credits include: DNA (Samuel French Festival), The Last One Left  (Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival), Improvisation (as part of Museum Pieces with Prospect Theater Company), Please Remove This Stuffed Animal From My Head (Estrogenius 2007/Manhattan Theatre Source), and a number of one-act plays with Prospect Theater Company's Dark Nights Series (which she also produces). She has collaborated with playwrights James Armstrong, Erin Courtney, Christina Gorman, Jason Pizzarello, and Leah Ryan. Dev recently completed an SDCF Observership with Mary B. Robinson (whom she also assisted) at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Assistant directing: Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher (dir. Kate Whoriskey, Vineyard Theatre) and A.R. Gurney's Post Mortem (dir. Jim Simpson, The Flea).  Dev is a member of the Epiphany Theater's Reactionaries-Directors, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and is an Associate Member of SSDC.
General Information

Ticket price is $15.  For tickets, please visit www.fringenyc.org or call 866.468.7619.

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