The Be Company Presents SEX ON SUNDAY 3/17-18

The BE Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Ethan Matthews and Director of Artistic Development Clare Drobot, is pleased to present the world premiere of SEX ON SUNDAY (OR HOW TO MAKE A MAN STAY, BEG AND ROLL OVER) by Chisa Hutchinson (She Like Girls, Dirt Rich). Jade King Carroll (A Raisin in the Sun (Juillliard School), Cherry Smoke) will direct. The full cast includes Nyahale Allie, Lolita Foster, Amber Gray, Benton Greene, Nedra McClyde, and Jeremy Rishe.

Everyone wants to know Laila Meeks' secret for success. Having just moved into a lavish apartment in an affluent neighborhood, Laila peaks the curiosity of her nosey and delightfully catty neighbors. The local ladies are desperate to find out just who Laila is and the juicy details of her mysterious professional life. Laila finds herself caught in a web of hilarious antics and lies as she tries to balance her two worlds while searching for happiness, love, and self-fulfillment. SEX ON SUNDAY weaves together a hysterical and poignant play about a dominatrix seeking to reconcile her private and professional lives. Chisa Hutchinson challenges taboos of sex, race, relationships, and gender bias leaving everyone involved begging for more.

Previews run March 17-18 with an official opening on March 19, 2011 at The Theatre at 30th Street (259 West 30th Street at Urban Stages). Please note this is not an Urban Stages production. SEX ON SUNDAY is currently set to run through April 3 with performances Thursday-Saturday at 8 PM and Sundays at 7.

TICKETS NOW ON SALE and can be purchased from SmartTix online (www.SmartTix.com) or by calling (212) 868-4444. All tickets are $18.

SEX ON SUNDAY previously received readings from The BE Company in 2009 and 2010.
Chisa Hutchinson earned a B.A. in Playwriting from Vassar College, and an M.F.A. from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her plays, which tend to probe social issues, include She Like Girls, Sex on Sunday (or How to Make a Man Stay, Beg and Roll Over), The Subject, Dirt Rich, Mama's Gonna Buy You, and Somebody's Daughter; they have been presented by such companies as the Lark Play Development Center, Vital Theater, The BE Company, Working Man's Clothes, City Parks Theater, the Atlantic Theater Company, and Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Chisa was most recently honored with a GLAAD Award for the Working Man's Clothes production of her play, She Like Girls, and was selected to be the first recipient of the Lilly Award for Outstanding Emerging Playwright. This year is a year of firsts for Chisa. She is currently working on a commission that will be the first play she's ever written with all white characters (it's harder than it sounds), and gearing up for her first crack at a musical (with puppets!) for CityParks' Summerstage.

Jade King Carroll's directing credits include A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry with the fourth year drama students at Juilliard; The Etymology of Bird by Zakiyyah Alexander (CityParks Summer Stages); Cherry Smoke by James Mcmanus (Theatre Row); The Persians, Splittin' the Raft (People's Light & Theatre); After Adam (Playpenn); Contents of a Book, Life as a Balloon (McCarter Youth Ink Festival); The Summer House, White Baby (Passage Theatre); Like Father (Producer's Club); White Trash by Catherine Filloux (Players Theatre). She has directed workshops & readings for McCarter Theatre, New Dramatists, Second Stage Theatre, Primary Stages, Playwright's Realm, Time Warner New Play Festival, BE Company, 24 Hour Plays, Players Theatre, Chocolate Theatre & New Jersey Rep.

As an assistant director Jade has worked with many leading directors including Michael Greif, Les Waters, Rebecca Taichman, Michael Kahn, Gary Griffin, Lisa Peterson, Lou Bellamy, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. She was a Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theatre, an Artistic Assistant at Women's Project and a Directing/ Producing Assistant at McCarter Theatre. Jade is currently the Artistic Associate at Second Stage Theatre where Carole Rothman is mentoring her in artistic direction as a TCG New Generations Future Leader. In 2010 Jade was presented with the Paul Green Award from the National Theatre Conference and the August Wilson estate. Jade did her undergraduate work at SUNY New Paltz as one of the first Bill Gates Millennium Scholars.

THE BE COMPANY was founded in the spring of 2008 as a collaboration between industry professionals seeking an artistic home. As a company we are focused on the greater mission of what art can accomplish.

We aim to build a creative home for artists both emerging and established by providing developmental support through salons, readings, workshops, theatre productions, film programming, and events in the New York City area and beyond.

For more information please see www.thebecompany.org 

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