Small Pond Enterprises Presents Nora Brown in Dad Doesn't Dance 7/12-30

The Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival presents Dad Doesn't Dance, a new solo noir in one act written and performed by Nora Brown*. The production will be held at Dorothy Strelsin Theatre, 312 West 36th Street, 1st Floor, NYC, 10018 for six performances from July 12-30, 2011. Karen Case Cook* directs. AEA approved Showcase. *Member, Actors' Equity Association

A fateful quest. Dubious characters. Her biological father. Our heroine crosses the continent from the wilds of Winnipeg to the haze of Hollywood as she encounters five mysterious men and the clues they reveal. She had lived without a past. An infidelity caused her to look at her life, leading to the revelation of the existence of a biological father. As she found clues, the mystery unfolded, until she faced her BioDad's door in Hollywood. Did she have the courage to knock?

"Before I knew this story existed, I always questioned my own identity," stated Nora Brown. "I escaped from life with my mother to the ballet stage, where I truly knew who I was and why I was there; that was my real world, and I loved it deeply. As I made up before the performance, I didn't know that dark haired woman in the mirror. The make-up finished, I knew the image. I was that dancer, that character in the ballet being danced that night. On stage, I felt close to God, to the audience, to the other dancers, to myself."

Dad Doesn't Dance is produced by Small Pond Enterprises LLC and Michael Roderick. Set Designer: Mark Symczak; Costume Designer: Enochian; Production Stage Manager: Allison Broder; Graphic Design: Michael Thomas Holmes; Publicist: Paul Siebold/Off Off PR.

Dad Doesn't Dance plays for six performances on the following schedule: Tuesday, July 12th @ 7:30pm; Sunday, July 17th @ 6:00pm; Thursday, July 21st @ 6:00pm; Sunday, July 24th @ 4:00pm; Friday, July 29th @ 8:00pm; and Saturday, July 30th @ 2:30pm.

Director Karen Case Cook is an actor and director whose directing highlights include: Hot L Baltimore (Stella Adler Conservatory); The Guardsman, Alice on The Edge, Emma Goldman, My Life and Helpful Hints (East Lynne Theater Company); On the Verge, A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur and Assistant Director for Elise Stone I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble); Mass Appeal, Shadows of Poe and Ibsen's Ghosts (Dave McCracken Productions). Summer 2005, Karen travelled to Beijing, China to direct Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Karen is an SDC Associate and a member of AEA, AFTRA and SAG. Next up: Director, the Philadelphia Premiere of Tom Jacobson's The Twentieth-Century Way.

Nora Brown (AEA/SAG/AFTRA/ACTRA) is an accomplished actress/dancer/choreographer/ director who has worked extensively internationally and in NYC. Nora co-directed, choreographed and appeared as Hester in "Making Light: the Found Letters of Hester Prynne" by Michael Bettencourt. Nora has directed productions in New York including CERCEAU by Viktor Slavkin, THE SWAN by Elizabeth Egloff, and NIGHTWALKING by Frank Canino. As an actor, Nora appeared as Aelis Mazoyer in TAMARA. She also played Medea in MEDEA (San Francisco Demeter Project). Other favorite roles in New York include Lady Charlotte in ELIZABETH AND ESSEX (York Theatre Company); Queen/Young Girl in YEATS TRIO (Villager award); Marguerite in EXIT THE KING (Ionesco), Mouth in NOT I (Beckett); Guibot/Auzanneau in PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN (Vinaver), Elma in SEVEN MINUTES (Colpman), The Duke in MERCHANT OF VENICE, all with the Synchronicity Theatre Group; Lenore in THE SWAN QUEEN (Canino, The Greenwich Theatre). Ms. Brown played Mrs. Randall, in David Cronenberg's film, "Dead Ringers." She appeared in her cabarets LIGHT AND DARK (Don't Tell Mama) and DANGEROUS RHYTHMS (Danny's). She is a former principal Dancer with the National Ballet of Canada (as Judie Colpman).

The annual Midtown InterNational Theatre Festival (MITF) celebrates the diversity of theatre in New York City and abroad every summer in midtown Manhattan. The Commercial Division hosts the festival's "Broadway-in-the-making" series, and the awards ceremony recognizes outstanding work. MITF seeks to nurture new ideas, perspectives, and stories on its stages while guiding productions toward future success and longevity. The festival represents an adventurous, intriguing, and often paradoxical cross-section of the theatre community. We proudly host production companies from across the country and around the globe, uniting talent in one of the biggest theatre capitals in the world. MITF welcomes submissions for any kind of stage play, musical or otherwise, new or classic, mainstream or specifically focused on an ethnic or cultural niche. The festival is the brainchild of John Chatterton, publisher and editor of OOBR ("the off-off-broadway review"). Mr. Chatterton started MITF as a way to present the finest Off-Off-Broadway talent in convenience, comfort, and safety.

Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for student and seniors and can be purchased by visiting http://www.midtownfestival.org

The run time for Dad Doesn't Dance is 50 minutes with no intermission.

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