SEASCAPE WITH SHARKS AND DANCER Opens 9/2 at 13th Street Rep

Seascape with Sharks and Dancer by Don Nigro will open at 13th Street Repertory (50 West 13th Street) on September 2nd and continue to play on September 3rd, 10th and 11th. Directed by Paul Purvine, the cast features Leila McCann and Zachery Gamble.

Ben, a lonely. aspiring novelist, pulls a beautiful, naked woman from the ocean in what appears as a suicide attempt and brings her to his remote Cap Cod beach house to recuperate. The young woman, Tracy, claims that she was only dancing in the sea and treats Ben's attempts at hospitality and kindness with contempt. Nevertheless Ben finds himself beginning to care for her and too afraid to reveal his feelings for fear of her leaving. Caught between her need to rest somewhere and deep seated emotional damage that continually triggers her impulse to attack him, Tracy admits to Ben that she never finishes anything for fear of losing it. Yet she remains and their love story begins.

Don Nigro is among the most frequently published and widely produced contemporary playwrights. His plays Anima Mundi and The Dark Sonnets of The Lady have both been nominated for the National Repertory Theatre Foundation's National Play Award. He is the recipient of a Playwright's Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His plays have been produced by the McCarter Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Capital Repertory Company, Berkeley Stage Company and Nylon Fusion Fusion Theatre Company.

Leila Mc Cann studied in Ireland at The Royal Irish Academy of Music and the Irish Film Academy before coming to New York to continue her performing arts training at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Representative roles include Jackie in Mauritius, Doris in The Owl and The Pussycat, Rose in The Woolgatherer and Stella in Streetcar Named Desire.

Zachary Gamble appeared in King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Great River Shakespeare Festival. Other representative roles include Antonio in Twelfth Night, Teach in American Buffalo, Prescott in Betrayed and Juan Julian in Anna in The Tropics. He holds a degree in Acting from Southern Methodist University.

Paul Puvine, a New York based actor and director has been a workshop director and faculty member at Creative Theater Experience for more than a decade. His directing credits include The Tempest, Everyman and Snow Angel.

Seascape with Sharks and Dancer begins Wednesday September 2nd at 13th Street Repertory (50 West 13th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues). The performance schedule is Wednesday Sept. 2 and Thursday Sept. 3 at 7:30PM and Thursday Sept. 10 and Friday Sept. 11 at 7:30PM. General admission is $20. Special VIP Tickets are $35. For tickets go to www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2169036 or call 1-800 838-3006.

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