THE HOUSE ON POE STREET Starts Tonight at the 14th Street Y Theatre

When twin sisters inherit the house where Poe composed The Raven, their lives take twisted turns that affect the future of mankind.

Yonder Window Theatre Company will present the World Premiere of Fengar Gael's The House on Poe Street. The production is directed by Artistic Director Katie McHugh, with original music composed by Sheilah Rae Gross.

The play was inspired by Gael's fondness for lurid tales of the supernatural as well as the city's obsession with the escalating price of real estate and the discovery of Edgar Allan Poe Streeton West 84th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive.

Gothic ghosts encounter modern monstrosities when twin sisters inherit the house where Poe is reputed to have composed The Raven. In The House on Poe Street a wealthy estate lawyer learns to appreciate Poe's macabre spirit while questioning his own presumptions of wealth, gender parity and the power of poetry to conjure visions of a spectral afterlife.

The cast includes Richarda Abrams (Morpho-Genesis/New World Stages), Tamara Geisler (Digna/Planet Connections), Gregory Jensen (Father Brendan Flynn/Doubt: A Parable), Daniel Light (Incognito/NYU Playwrights Horizons Theater School), Olivia Nice (Fool for Love/Princeton), Gadi Rubin (Bull/CBS), and Eliza Shea (originated the role of Margie, opposite Alan Cumming, in Me and the Girls: A Noël Coward Musical).

The creative team includes scenic design by Pei-Wen Huang-Shea, sound design by Robert Gonyo, lighting design by Isaac Weisselberg, and costume design by Alice Geaccone. The production is being co-presented by the Theater at the 14th Street Y.

Performances take place at the 14th Street Y Theatre, 344 East 14th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues), New York, NY 10003. Subway: L train to 1st Avenue. Tickets are $18.00 and are available at www.yonderwindow.co. Running time 85 minutes, no intermission.

Performance Schedule:

Friday, October 27 @ 7 pm

Saturday, October 28 @ 7 pm

Sunday October 29 @ 2 pm

Tuesday, October 31 @ 7 pm

Thursday, November 2 @ 7 pm

Friday, November 3 @ 7 pm

Saturday, November 4 @ 7 pm

Sunday, November 5 @ 2 pm

Tuesday, November 7 @ 7 pm

Wednesday, November 8 @ 7 pm

Thursday, November 9 @ 7 pm

Friday, November 10 @ 7 pm

Saturday, November 11 @ 2 pm & 7 pm

Sunday, November 12 @ 2 pm

Fengar Gael (Playwright) has had workshops and/or productions at The New York Stage and Film Company, the Sundance Playwrights Lab, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, the InterAct Theatre of Philadelphia, New Jersey Repertory, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, the Salt Lake Acting Company, Moxie Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Seanachai Theatre, Botanicum Seedlings, the Athena Project, Detroit Rep, and in New York City: MultiStages, Urban Stages, The Secret Theatre, The Spiral Theatre, CAP 21, Turn to Flesh Productions, The Resonance Ensemble Theatre, Medicine Show Theatre, The Identity Theatre, Project Y Theatre, and The Playwrights Gallery. She is a recipient of the Craig Noel Award (for Devil Dog Six), the Playwrights First Award (for Opaline), Manhattan Theatre Works Playwriting Award (for The Drapers Eye); and commissions from South Coast Repertory, New Jersey Repertory, the InterAct Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, and a fellowship from the California Arts Council. www.fengar.com

Katie McHugh (Director) is a New York based director, teacher and producer of theatre with an MFA in directing from The New School for Drama. She is the Founding Director of the Southeastern Teen Shakespeare Company, Co-Founder of the Teen Shakespeare Conservatory, and Artistic Director of Yonder Window Theatre Company. Katie is an award-winning director who specializes in devised and experimental theatre. Selected New York directing credits: Euripides' Medea in the New School for Drama's New Visions festival, and The List by Jennifer Tremblay in the New York International Fringe Festival 2012 (Winner of Overall Excellence in a Solo Performance, NYC) and PLACES at 59e59 Theatre's East to Edinburgh Festival. Her new theatre company, Yonder Window, made its maiden voyage in 2017 with a multidisciplinary, multi-cultural, tri-lingual international production called The Dream Project, premiering at Muv arte in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Katie is a five-time director for the Writopia World Wide Plays Festival sponsored by David Letterman, as well as a regular guest director with the NYU dramatic writing program. She is the Artistic Ambassador of the Mexican Fringe Festival, San Miguel and a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women. Most recently Katie produced and directed PLACES the Play at The New Town Theatre in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017.

Yonder Window Theatre Company (YWTC) is a platform for cultural conversations and exchange committed to connecting with artists around the world. YWTC is dedicated to enriching and exploring cross-cultural and social relationships through the use of interdisciplinary art, creating innovative and relevant productions that speak to the elements of our humanity. Upcoming productions include The Dream Project in March of 2018.

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