Site-Specific IN VESTMENTS Premieres Tonight at West Park Presbyterian Church

Theatre 4the People is thrilled to announce the world premiere of IN VESTMENTS, written by Sara Florence Fellini and directed by Isaac Byrne. IN VESTMENTS began performances on Thursday, May 7 for a limited engagement through Saturday, May 30. Press Opening is tonight, May 9 at 7:30 PM.

The performance schedule is Thursday - Saturday at 7:30 PM. Performances for this site-specific production are at West Park Presbyterian Church (165 West 86th Street, between Amsterdam and Columbus; 1/B/C trains to 86th Street). The mission of Theatre 4the People is to make economically accessible theater, so the show is FREE. There is a suggested donation $20 for those who would like to pay. For advance reservations, visit www.infinitesighs.com.

Four priests and sacristan are living and working in a church that is falling apart around them. Haunted by the ghosts and demons of their pasts, they fight each other and their own destructive natures as they struggle to rebuild the church. After a chalice of sanctified communion wine is poisoned by a piece of asbestos falling from the ceiling, the ensuing argument over what do with the now poisoned holy wine sets off a chain reaction of destructive events, tearing at the fragile balance holding the church together and revealing the terrible secrets holding each of the priests and the sacristan to the church.

From the acclaimed site specific company that brought Grimm Reality to Bryant Park, IN VESTMENTS is an immersive ghost story about rebuilding a crumbling church that is physically in a church currently under restoration. Live musicians Pierre Marais and Andy Evan Cohen turn Jacques Brel's music into a haunting and otherworldly score for this terrifying story of demonic possession.

The cast features Colt Keeney, Sara Fellini, Adam Belvo, Carl Danielsen (Jeff Award-winning actor), Ted Wold, Peter Oliver, Eric Soto, Pierre Marais (The Scorpion King: Rise of a Warrior), Amy Higgs, Erika Phoebus, and Cait Murphy.

The design team includes Joshua Rose (scenic and lighting design), Tricia Bastian (costume design), and Andy Evan Cohen (sound design).

Sara Florence Fellini (playwright) is an award-winning playwright, actress, and skilled artisan whose plays have been featured in several New York City production houses, including Paradise Factory and The Tank. Most recently, she played Nannerl Mozart in Sylvia Milo's monodrama The Other Mozart, bringing it to the New Orleans Fringe Festival, the Kingston Festival of the Arts, and the Players Theatre in NYC. She also played Josef Stalin in Lenin's Embalmers at the Davenport Theater.

Isaac Byrne (director) has worked Off Broadway at DR2, Ars Nova, HERE Arts Center, The Ohio Theater, La Mama, PS122, and 59E59 among others. He developed and directed Desiree Burch's solo shows 52 Man Pick Up (Edinburg Fringe Festival, New Orleans, San Francisco and NYC) and Tar Baby (NYIT Nomination for Outstanding Performance Art). Isaac directed the premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's To Nineveh, which was nominated for nine NY IT Awards and won six, including Outstanding Direction.

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