Vampire Cowboys Present The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G 3/24

The OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, will present the world premiere of "THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G," written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Robert Ross Parker (with fight direction by Nguyen), when it begins performances on March 24 at Incubator Arts Project (incubatorarts.org), St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue). The cast will include: William Jackson Harper, Jon Hoche, Bonnie Sherman, Paco Tolson, and Amy Kim Waschke. "THE INEXPLICABLE REDEMPTION OF AGENT G," will officially open on Sunday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. (Performances will run through Saturday, April 16).

He lost his country, his family, and his soul. But what he hasn't lost is his taste for revenge! It's been 10 years since Agent G has last been to Vietnam where his family and friends were all viciously slain. He's now come back looking for answers and a good bit of revenge - but mysterious forces, as well as the playwright, are actively trying to stop him from finishing his brutal task. After 8 years of exploding movie genre after movie genre onto the live stage, Vampire Cowboys now takes their irreverent pop-culture aesthetic and applies it to a true story, in their most daring and risk-taking venture yet.

Qui Nguyen is a writer, fight choreographer, and Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys. His scripts include the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys productions of Soul Samurai (co-produced with Ma-Yi Theater); Alice in Slasherland; Fight Girl Battle World; Men of Steel; Living Dead in Denmark; StaiNed Glass Ugly; A Beginner's Guide to Deicide; and Vampire Cowboy Trilogy. Other scripts include Bike Wreck (Youngblood); Aliens Versus Cheerleaders (Keen Teens); the Off-Broadway production of Trial By Water (Ma-Yi Theater/Queens Theatre in the Park); and the upcoming hip-hop musical Krunk Fu Battle Battle being produced by East West Players, this May in Los Angeles, with lyrics by Beau Sia (Def Poetry Jam) and music by Marc Macalintal. His plays have been published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts.com, and can be found in the anthologies, "Savage Stage" and "Plays & Playwrights 2005." Additionally, Qui is an award-winning fight director who has worked extensively as an instructor & choreographer for such places as LAByrinth Theater, Ma-Yi Theater, Long Wharf, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Public, HERE Arts Center, and many others. His honors include a 2009 GLAAD Media Award nominee (Soul Samurai); 2008 & 2006 NY Innovative Theatre Awards nominations for Best Production (Fight Girl Battle World and Living Dead in Denmark); 2007 ComicCritique.com's Best Adaptation of Comics into Other Media (Men of Steel); The New Dramatists Playwriting Fellowship; NYTheatre.com's 2004 People of the Year; he was featured as a "Playwright to Watch" by Time Out New York; a 2008 Innovative Theatre Award for Best Choreographer (Fight Girl Battle World); and additional nominations for the NY IT Best Choreographer Award in 2008 (HERE Arts' production of Rus(h), directed by Kristin Marting), 2007 (Brick Theater's Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest) & 2005 (A Beginner's Guide to Deicide). Qui is a proud member of New Dramatists, The Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an alumnus of Youngblood.

Robert Ross Parker is a Brooklyn based theatre artist. He is the Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award winning Vampire Cowboys with Qui Nguyen (Nguyen, he, and the company were listed among NYtheatre.com's 2004 people of the year). For Vampire Cowboys he has co-authored and directed Vampire Cowboy Trilogy (published by New York Theatre Experience), and A Beginner's Guide to Deicide, and directed Soul Samurai, Fight Girl Battle World (nominated IT award for best direction, best production, winner best ensemble), Men of Steel, Living Dead in Denmark, and Alice in Slasherland. Other recent directing credits include Goodbye Cruel World (Roundtable Ensemble), Hamlet{solo} (Edinburgh 07, SoloNOVA 08 at PS 122, Canadian tour) Children's Letters to God (national tour), StaiNed Glass Ugly, Slicing Andre (both by Nguyen) Lady Convoy (NYC Fringe). He also spent a season as young director in residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre. At the Toronto Fringe Robert directed Pseudolus and A Midsummer Night's Dream Project for Cabbagetown Theatre. He was the associate director for Silent Laughter off Broadway, the assistant director for High Fidelity on Broadway, and has assistant directed at many theatres including, EST, People's Light and Theatre Co, Toronto's Soulpepper and Barrington Stage Co. For LAByrinth Theatre he co-produced the Barn Series in 2002 & 2003. He has recently appeared in VCS Radio Monster Theatre for Vampire Cowboys Saturday Night Saloon (which he also wrote.) Robert Is the editor of "The Dramatist," the Journal of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company (www.vampirecowboys.com) is the OBIE Award-winning "geek theatre" company that creates and produces new works of theatre based in action/adventure and dark comedy with a comic book aesthetic. The company was founded in 2000 with the first collaboration between playwright/fight director Qui Nguyen and director Robert Ross Parker. Their highly physical shows actively use modern pop-culture as a vehicle to explore more weighty subjects. The company's work has included: Alice in Slasherland (2010), Soul Samurai (2009 in a co-production with Ma-Yi Theater Company), Fight Girl Battle World (2008), Men of Steel (2007), Living Dead in Denmark (2006), A Beginner's Guide to Deicide (2005), Vampire Cowboy Trilogy (2004), and StaiNed Glass Ugly (2003). In 2006, the company was awarded the Caffe Cino Fellowship from The New York Innovative Theatre Awards for outstanding continued production of theatre and Mr. Nguyen was featured as one of "ten playwrights to watch" by Time Out New York.

The five-member cast for "AGENT G" will be: William Jackson Harper (Playwright), Jon Hoche (Tien), Bonnie Sherman (Molly), Paco Tolson (Hung), and Amy Kim Waschke (San). Mr. Harper's off-Broadway credits include Ruined (Manhattan Theatre Club), Rich Boyfriend (The New Group's Naked series), Paradise Park, Queens Boulevard (the musical) at Signature Theatre Company and The Children of Vonderly at Ma-Yi Theater Company. His other New York credits include Stomp and Shout at Babel Theatre Project; Neglect, Bike Wreck, 100 Most Beautiful Names of Todd and Unwritten Song at The Ensemble Studio Theatre; and Full Bloom at Vital Theatre Company. Mr. Hoche just finished an extended run of Bethlehem or Bust with Piper Mckenzie as part of Fight Fest at The Brick Theatre. Other notable credits include: 13: Instant Vaudeville (2G), Titus Andronicus (The American Globe Theatre), Soul Samurai (Ma-Yi Theater/Vampire Cowboys Theatere Co.), Pullman Cart Hiawatha (Target Margin Theater), The Brokenhearteds (I Mean Productions), the NYIT Award-winning Fight Girl Battle World (Vampire Cowboys Theatre Co.) and The Encounter (Diverse City Theatre). Jon's written work has also been featured in the first ever NJ One Minute Play Festival. A production of his play Subterranea, co-written with Paco Tolson, will be produced later this year. Ms. Sherman has appeared in three Vampire Cowboys' productions: Alice in Slasherland, Soul Samurai, and in the remount of Fight Girl Battle World; in Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum's The Buccaneer; Ten Speed Revolution, and The Crackwalker, directed by Shawn Renfro. Bonnie is a proud Founding Member of Apothecary Theatre Company. Mr. Tolson has appeared with Vampire Cowboys in: Men of Steel, Fight Girl Battle World and in the Off-Broadway premiere of Soul Samurai (co-prod w/ Ma-Yi Theatre). His Off-Broadway credits include: the premieres of Rescue Me and The Children of Vonderly with Ma-Yi; and End Days at Ensemble Studio Theater. Other credits include: Goodbye Cruel World (Roundtable Ensemble), Slavey (Clubbed Thumb), The Unwritten Song (EST), Game Boys (Partial Comfort), The Wikipedia Plays (Ars Nova), Servant of Two Masters (Williamstown), and The Brokenhearteds (I Mean). His Film/TV credits: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Picnic, Hot for Teacher, and Jumped. He is the recipient of an Innovative Theatre Award and was named a 2009 "Person of The Year" by nytheatre.com. Ms. Waschke has previously appeared with Vampire Cowboys in Alice in Slasherland and Living Dead in Denmark. Other NYC credits include: The Water Station (Pacific Performance Project at HERE), DisOriented (Theatre C); and in Grief (Manhattan Theatre Source). She appears frequently in Shakespeare and the classics in regional theaters around the country including the Seattle Shakespeare Theatre, Merrimack Repertory, The Hangar Theatre, and the Arizona Theatre Company.

The scenic and lighting design will be by Nick Francone, the multi-media design by Matthew Tennie, the costume design by Jessica Shay, the puppet design by David Valentine, and original music and sound design by Shane Rettig. The dance choreographer will be Jamie Dunn. The production stage manager will be Danielle Buccino. The show's producers are Abby Marcus and Daniel Rech, and the production is sponsored by New York ComicCon.

The Incubator Arts Project aims to further innovative performance by serving independent theater artists creating original works. The Incubator provides vital support and production opportunities, strengthening our community of artists, practitioners and audiences. The Incubator Arts Project supports independent, experimental performing artists through a series of programs aimed at offering production opportunities and help with long-term growth and artistic sustainability. Its programs primarily support world premieres of original work and also include a concert series, work-in-progress opportunities and artist salons and roundtables. The Incubator Arts Project is sponsored under the fiscal umbrella of Performing Artservices, Inc. The Incubator Arts Project grew out of the Incubator, a project of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. In 2010, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater announced that it would leave its permanent home, St. Mark's Church, and that the Incubator would take over the space and operate year-round. Beginning in 1993, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, in addition to its primary support of the work of Richard Foreman, opened its doors to emerging, independent artists. Since 1993 the emerging artists program at the Ontological took many forms, including the OBIE-winning Blueprint Series for emerging directors. In 2005, the OHT reorganized the programs under the name Incubator, creating a series of linked programs to provide young theater artists with resources and support to develop process-oriented, original theatrical productions. By 2010, the program had quadrupled in size, involving a range of artists and increased support. The programs included the centerpiece Residency program for premieres, two annual music festivals, a regular concert series, a serial work-in-progress program called Short Form, and roundtables and salons aimed at keeping Incubator artists involved year-round. In May 2010, the Incubator received an OBIE grant.

The complete performance schedule for "AGENT G" (March 24 thru April 16) will be: Thursdays through Sundays at 8:00 p.m. All tickets will be $18.00. To make a reservation, please visit www.incubatorarts.org or call TheaterMania at 212-352-3101.

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