STREEPSHOW! to Premiere as Part of The Tank's 'Save & Print' Series

The Tank will present STREEPSHOW!, written by Jay Stull, and directed by Andrew Neisler.

Part of The Tank's Save & Print series, STREEPSHOW! begins performances on Friday, June 2 for a limited engagement through Saturday, June 24. Performances are at the Connelly Theater (220 East 4th Street, between Avenues A & B). Tickets are $15 - $35. Tickets to the brunch are $75 and includes tickets to Part 1 & Part 2 (4 Episodes) plus a brunch between the performances. To purchase tickets, visit www.thetanknyc.org.

STREEPSHOW! features four episodes performed in two parts, simulating a Live TV experience.

The performance schedule for Part 1 (Episodes 1 & 2) is: June 2nd at 8pm; June 3rd at 9pm; June 4th at 8pm; June 8th at 8pm; June 11th at 8pm; June 9th at 9:30pm; June 16th at 9:30pm; June 18th at 12pm (BRUNCH! tickets available); June 22nd at 8pm; June 24th at 2pm (BRUNCH! tickets available).

The performance schedule for Part 2 (Episodes 3 & 4) is: June 10th at 9:30pm; June 12th at 8pm; June 17th at 9pm; June 18th at 4pm (BRUNCH! tickets available); June 23rd at 9:30pm; June 24th at 6pm (BRUNCH! tickets available).

This is the true story of 14 characters once played by Meryl Streep, picked to live in a house, and have their lives filmed to find out what happens when people stop being, oh I don't know, direct and start getting, well, breathy.

The characters in STREEPSHOW! have no knowledge of the actress Meryl Streep and think of themselves as real people with uncannily similar, tragic biographies. But when the winner of STREEPSHOW! is promised the opportunity to rewrite her tragedy, it's every Streep for her exquisitely-poised self. This is theater in reality TV drag, actors in Meryl drag, and America's pop music canon in cabaret drag.

STREEPSHOW! features costume, makeup and hair design by Daniel Dabdoub, the production designer for "Billy on the Street," who creates the iconic 'Meryl Streep' looks for the show's Meryl tributes. He is joined by a design team that includes Obie-winner Noah Mease (scenic and prop design); Mike McGee (lighting design); Jay Owen Eisenberg and Ben Gullard (sound design); and Dave Tennent and Stivo Arnoczy (video design).

STREEPSHOW! features a live on-stage band (Nicholas Williams on piano and Sam Lazzara on drums) performing with a cast of 14 Streeps played by 12 actors, featuring: Joe Castle Baker (as Mary Fisher), Dana Berger (as Sophie Zawistowski), Sam Bolen (as Suzanne Vale), Todd Briscoe (as Julia Child), Andrew Farmer (as Violet Weston), Kristine Haruna Lee (as Francesca Johnson), Emily Marro (as Joanna Kramer), Preston Martin (as Miranda Priestly), Ben Pelteson (as Ethel Rosenberg/Rabbi), Claire Rothrock (as Clarissa Vaughn), Storm Thomas (as Jeff), and Chris Tyler (as Madeline Ashton/Lindy Chamberlain).

Jay Stull (playwright) is a New York City theater maker. His plays include The Capables, City State, and an on-going investigatory theater project about anarcho-capitalists in New Hampshire. The Capables was produced in 2013 at the Gym at Judson and in 2015 at the Bloomington Playwrights Project. He was a member of the 2014 Playground Play Group with Fresh Ground Pepper and the 2015 and 2016 R&D Group with The Civilians. Jay's directing credits include a workshop production of Jenny Schwartz's As Far As The Day Goes, Emily Schwend's Utility (The Amoralists at Rattlestick, NY Times Critic's Pick, and a 2016 Innovative Theater Award for Best Production of a New Play), and Take Me Back (Walkerspace, NY Times Critic's Pick), Noah Mease's Omega Kids (New Light Theater Project at The Access Theater, and Dixon Place), Mark Roberts' Rantoul and Die (The Amoralists at The Cherry Lane, NY Times and Time Out Critic's Pick), Anne Adams's Strange Country (The Access Theater), and Lisi DeHaas's Leave Me Green (the Gym at Judson). STREEPSHOW! was originally developed at ANT Fest at Ars Nova and HOT! Fest at Dixon Place. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the 2016 SDCF Observership Class, and a 2015 Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb. He is an alumnus of Bowdoin College.

Andrew Neisler (director) is a Georgia-raised, Brooklyn-based theatre artist and director. Recent directing credits include the world premiere of Cesar Alvarez's The Elementary Spacetime Show (FringeArts Curated Series, Philadelphia), Andrew Farmer's critically acclaimed The Gray Man (Pipeline Theatre Company), site- specific Mermaiden; or, the Monogamy (Spring Street Social Society), Boats And (Ars Nova), Melancholy Play (Strasberg Institute), NY Times' Critics Pick Clown Bar (The Box), and Drama Desk-nominated Charlatan (Ars Nova). Projects currently in development are Folk Wandering and recent Ars Nova commission Bull's Hollow, both with frequent collaborators playwright Jaclyn Backhaus and composer Mike Brun; Cesar Alvarez's new musical NOISE; and the joyful theatre-jazz concert Great Awakening with 2017 Ars Nova Makers' Lab members Sammy Miller and the Congregation. He has worked on new plays with Naked Angels, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, HERE Arts, The Lark, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NYU, University of the Arts, and more. He is a Co-Founder and Creative Director of the non-profit arts incubation company Fresh Ground Pepper (www.fgpnyc.com) and a Teaching Artist at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School/NYU. He is an alumnus of the Ars Nova Directors' Troupe, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and The Civilians' R&D Group. He was the 2014 Director-in-Residence at Ars Nova. He holds a BFA from the NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

The Tank is a Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer. We serve emerging artists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas and forms of expression. Our goal is to foster an environment of inclusiveness and remove the economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers and experimenting within their art form. The heart of our services is providing free performance space in the 62-seat blackbox that we operate in Manhattan, and we also offer a suite of other resources such as free rehearsal space, promotional support, and artist fees. Our programming is multi-disciplinary, representing disciplines including theater, music, dance, comedy, film, and storytelling. We keep ticket prices affordable and view our work as democratic, opening up both the creation and attendance of the arts to all and positioning the arts within civic and socio-political discourse.

Founded in 2003 by nine emerging artists, The Tank has since provided an artistic home for tens of thousands of New York City-based performers. Recent successes produced by The Tank as part of Flint & Tinder include Manual Cinema's Ada/Ava (Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, New York Times Critics' Pick), Mac Wellman's The Offending Gesture (New York Times Critics' Pick), Andrew Schneider's youarenowhere (Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience, New York Times Critics' Pick), and Torry Bend's The Paper Hat Game (New York Times Critics' Pick). Artists who have presented work at The Tank early on in their careers include Alex Timbers (Tony-nominated theater director), Reggie Watts (theater performer/comedian/ musician currently the bandleader on The Late Late Show with James Corden), Amy Herzog (Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright), Lucy Alibar (whose one-act play Juicy and Delicious premiered at The Tank and was adapted to be the Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild), Andrew Bujalski (film director, Computer Chess), and We Are Scientists (rock band). The Tank also presented the premiere of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant by Kyle Jarrow, which won an Obie Award and went on to a national tour. The Tank has been honored with an official City Council proclamation, chosen for the WNYC *STAR* initiative, and featured on CNN, BBC, the New York Times, and more.

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