TEN COMMANDMENTS Set for New York New Works Theatre Festival, 8/20

TEN COMMANDMENTS, a world premiere play written by John Doble - about what happens when a sexy reporter interviews the Republican Party's foremost political operative - will be presented by the New York New Works Theatre Festival. The NYNW Festival is produced by Gene Fisch, Jr.

Directed by Olivia Harris, TEN COMMANDMENTS stars Nicholas J. Pearson and Loralee Tyson. TEN COMMANDMENTS will play a ONE-NIGHT ENGAGEMENT at The Times Square Art Center; an intimate 100-seat venue, as part of the New York New Works Theatre Festival. This one night only event will be held on August 20, 2015. The Times Square Arts Center is located at 300 West 43rd Street, 2nd Floor, off 8th Avenue in Mid-town Manhattan.

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$20 in advance - $25 cash at the door

CURTAIN at 7:00 pm. Running Time, Approx. 2 ½ hrs. - With one Intermission.

In TEN COMMANDMENTS, all the dark secrets behind the Republican Party's success are revealed when an alluring female reporter goes one on one with the GOP's most powerful political mover and shaker.

Loralee Tyson - seen to great effect in several productions of Mr. Doble's acclaimed play A SERIOUS PERSON - plays the reporter. Nicholas Pearson - also seen in Doble's work A SERIOUS PERSON AND THEN SOME at Manhattan Rep - portrays the political operative.

JOHN DOBLE's earlier plays include A Serious Person (Best Play, Belper Arts Festival, UK); Tatyana and the Cable Man (Best Play, Midtown Short Play Festival, NYC); Coffee House, Greenwich Village (Neil LaBute New Play Festival, St. Louis); Reunion Run (NYC Fringe Festival); To Protect the Poets; The Mayor Who Would Be Sondheim (NYC Fringe Festival); and Three Blind Dates. His plays have also been performed in LA and Sonora, CA, Nantucket, Burlington, WI, and Binghamton, NY, as well as in London, Arundel, Westcliff-on-Sea, and Belper, UK. A collection of his short stories, Lefty and Other Stories (Clemson University, 2004), was nominated for the Southern Book Award. www.JohnDoble.com

NICHOLAS J. PEARSON (Man): Nicholas was seen in NYC in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2013 in John Doble's A Serious Person and Then Some and in 2010 in Rebecca Schlossberg's Merrily, Merrily, Merrily. Other NYC credits include Coffee House, Greenwich Village in the Manhattan Rep Winter Festival and numerous roles in the Jacob Kreuger Screenwriting Master Class Reading Series. Regionally, he has recently performed the role of Moose in Crazy for You with Prather Entertainment Group and the roles of Eddie in Rocky Horror and Sir Bedevere/Mrs. Galahad in Spamalot at Augusta, Michigan's, Barn Theatre (summers 2011 and 2012). You can catch the pilot episode of How Come I'm Not Famous Yet?, his and Katherine Weatherford's series, on YouTube now. Much love and many thanks to his steadfast family and friends: the best is yet to come... Keep in touch on Twitter! @NickOlas1225

LORALEE TYSON (Woman): C'est très excitant to be originating the role of Woman in Ten Commandments after several successful runs in another piece of John's (A Serious Person) at Manhattan Rep and in the MITF! Recent film credits include Frenemy Mine (Pizza Kids Productions, winner of audience choice award group B), Stranded at the Altar, The Grey Places, and The Day the Coffee Stopped Working. Select theater credits include: The Threepenny Opera (Marvell Repertory, Drama Desk Nominee 2012), We're All Mad Here (Quirky Productions), Carmen (Amore Opera), Bamboozled (Theater for the New City), Where did the Bees Go? (American Globe Theatre). Drew University and LAMDA graduate. Thanks to the Dobles, Mickey, Nick and Olivia for their kindness and encouragement! www.loraleetyson.com

OLIVIA HARRIS (Director): Olivia Harris is thrilled to be working with John Doble for the seventh time. She is a Teaching Artist, director, and light designer from Cambridge, MA and Atlanta, GA. She has facilitated the creation of original theatrical productions with groups in New York, Nepal, New Jersey, Guatemala, and Afghanistan, and worked with incarcerated populations in Washington DC, New Jersey, and the Bronx. Olivia has worked with Bond Street Theatre, Arts for All, the Moth, Eric Hawkins Dance, Actor's Shakespeare Project, Impetuous Theatre Group, Piper Theater, Inventing Room Productions, Sunglasses After Dark, and Adaptive Arts. A graduate of Drew University and the CUNY School of Professional Studies, Olivia is currently working with 9th and 10th grade students in Harlem at the TRUCE Media and Arts after-school program. @ohwhatanoh

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL - In an evening made up of 6 short plays, the 2nd Annual New York New Works Theatre Festival will take place this August at the Times Square Arts Center in New York City! John Doble's TEN COMMANDMENTS will be the second play to perform.

The NYNW Festival is a one of a kind theatre competition in which the audience and the NYNW Panel select the best play of the season. All plays submitted are reviewed by a select panel, which is comprised of Tony and Emmy Award Winners, Broadway Producers, and leading entertainment industry executives.

In 2014, NYNW's first year, 6 of 20 projects performed received significant funding to help transform their work to the next level. Festival Director and Producer Gene Fisch, Jr. states, "We love our participants and are thrilled to have a panel of exceptional actors, producers and directors donate their time to help make the dreams come true for Broadway and television's next generation of writing greats."

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