New Feathers: A Playwright Reading Series Devoted To New Works Announces Casting for INTERVIEWESE

With the excitement of its sold-out series premiere, the New Feathers Playwright reading series at the Raven Resort is proud to announce the casting of Ian August's upcoming play, INTERVIEWESE set for Sunday, September 10th - casting is as follows:

Kristen Norine as Wilma. Kristen has her BFA in Musical Theatre from The University of the Arts. Recent credits include Annie (Time is On Our Side, Simpatico Theatre), Chelsea (flesh, flesh flesh: a Ghost play, The Brenda Frank Collection), and Violette (Spectre Vivant, a collaboration between New Paradise Laboratories and Opera Philadelphia). Other companies include The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, Renegade Company, Forearmed Productions, and Plays and Players.

Hannah Parke as Janet Janet. Hannah is an actor, singer, and collaborative artist that originally hails from the land of Dolly Parton, Tennessee. Recent credits include: The Equity National Tour ofThe Lightning Thief (NYC), Moth with Azuka Theatre, Tartuffe with Commonwealth Classic Theatre Co., and Living News with The National Constitution Center. As a playwright, she is currently working on her piece, Close Your Legs, Honey, with Shamus Hunter McCarty, that will premiere at the 2018 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Hayden Saunier's as Beverly. Hayden's acting credits include the Guthrie Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre, and dozens of roles in the Philadelphia area including the voice of a broken-down stove for an Ikea display. Film and television credits include The Sixth Sense, Philadelphia Diary, House of Cards, Do No Harm and Hack. She is a widely published poet and the author of four books. (www.haydensaunier.com)

Michele Tauber as Poppy. Michele just performed the role of "Sister Winnie" in Folk by Tom Wells at the Chester Theater Company in the Berkshires. Other recent work includes appearing on the CBS TV Show "Bull" and performing in Heartbreak House with the Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware. NYC Stage: Orpheus Descending Directed by Austin Pendleton, two seasons with The Acting Company in; Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet, O, Pioneers!, The Rivals & Macbeth. Also at The Mint Theater - The Charity That Began at Home, & the NYC International Fringe Festival in Jasper Lake & Pierrot Le Quin. Regionally: Pig Iron Theatre Company in I Promised Myself To Live Faster at Actor's Theatre of Louisville's 39th Humana Play Festival & Fringe Arts in Philadelphia. Six Seasons of A Christmas Carol at McCarter Theatre, See How They Run at Barrington Stage, The Fox on the Fairway with Gulfshore Playhouse and also shows at; Two River Theater Company, Indiana Rep., Syracuse Stage, New Jersey Rep., Capital Rep., Present Stage Company, Pennsylvania, Texas & Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, Cleveland Playhouse, Forum Theater, Depot Theater, Luna Stage Company, & Dreamcatcher Rep. TV/Film: Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, Kate & Allie, The Street. Training: MFA, PTTP at University of Delaware.

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The economy sucks, the job market is hell, and four women arrive to the lobby of Massil Technologies Incorporated to vie for the coveted position of Senior Accountant: Wilma Bluckle, a brainy introvert with an extraordinary memory; Janet Janet, the model of positivity; Beverly Weathers, an experienced ex-executive with ambition in spades; Poppy Szank, who may or may not have just slept in the wheel well of 747. A voice on the intercom reveals that the interview will begin in ten minutes, but as the women get to know each other, test each other, taunt each other, they begin to fear that the interview may never come. Four women enter--only one may leave with a 401K. Interviewese is an absurdist comedy about corporate ambition, ethics and morality, and the lengths that any sane person would go to for the perfect job.

Ian August is a NJ based playwright and lyricist, whose works have been performed across the U.S., as well as in Canada, Australia, the UK, South Korea and Bermuda. His full-length plays include: The Goldilocks Zone, (Passage Theatre Company), Donna Orbits the Moon (NJ Repertory Company, Utah Contemporary Theatre; Barbour Memorial Playwright Award, 2010), Missing Celia Rose (NYC Summer Play Festival; Orlando Shakespeare Theater's "Playfest 2009″; Bermuda Musical and Dramatic Society), Submitted by C. Randall McCloskey (2011 NY Intl. Fringe Festival), Natural History (2009 NY Intl. Fringe Festival),The Aisling (2009 Heiress Productions New Play Series Award), The Moor's Son, Interviewese, The Excavation of Mary Anning, Displaced, Brisé, and Cobbler. Mr. August's short play, Le Supermarche, or What I Did for Lunch, was a winner of the 31st Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and published in a 2006 anthology. Other works have been published by The Pitkin Review, Smith and Kraus Publishing and the One-Act Play Depot. Mr. August is a founding member of the Princeton-based Witherspoon Circle and a graduated member of the Philadelphia playwriting collective, The Foundry.

Allison Heishman is the Associate Artistic Director at Azuka Theater, and a freelance director and educator based in Philadelphia. With Azuka: The Arsonists (NNPN Rolling World Premiere), Local Girls (WP), The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence, Skin & Bone (WP), Failure: A Love Story, Hazard County, the terrible girls(WP), Azuka One Acts. Other credits: Tartuffe (Commonwealth Classic), Macbeth (Revolution Shakespeare),Rabbit Hole, Eurydice (Ruhl, Arcadia University), No Reservations (PNAA Productions, WP), Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (Plays & Players), Pinkalicious, the musical (Walnut Street Theater, Kids' Series), A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity, Spacewang (Tiny Dynamite, A Play A Pie A Pint, Barnes Foundation). Heishman was the Assistant Director under Blanka Zizka for the Wilma Theater's productions of Angels in America, parts I and II. She has written and directed for Theatre Programs at the National Constitution Center, where she is the director of Living News, a fast-paced show geared towards middle and high school students that discusses current events and the Constitution. Senior Lecturer at the University of the Arts and Rowan University. Proud alumna of Washington College, Chestertown, MD. Up next: Ready, Steady, Yeti, Go (WP) by David Jacobi at Azuka. www.allisonheishman.org

With the goal of offering a stimulating, collaborative environment between stage and audience, this series isconceived and co-produced by Mandee K. Hammerstein, jointly with Greg T. Nanni. New Feathers strives toprovide personal experience and engagement for audience members and creatives alike, while encouragingan inviting forum for audience influence over new works. Throughout the series, patrons will witness avariety of play readings from edgy to outrageous, deranged, dark, delightful and everything in between.

This monthly reading series provides playwrights a secure outlet to confidentially show their work to thesmart, theatre-enthused (or the theatre curious), gathering feedback, aiding in the development of theirmaterial. The Raven, as an arts-supporting establishment, is proud to host this series to its vast and variedaudience.

The Raven Resort combines worldclass dining and entertainment venues with a boutique hotel experienceand pool club, all in a relaxed, stylish setting. Established in 1979, The Raven Resort has become aninstitution for locals, travelers and anyone drawn to the art, music, culture scene New Hope offers.

The Witherspoon Circle was founded by David Lee White and Ian August in the summer of 2016 and isbased in Princeton, NJ. comprised of award winning New Jersey and Pennsylvania playwrights who havebeen produced internationally as well as throughout the region. The Witherspoon Circle strives to create anindependent environment for these playwrights to meet, hone their craft through peer critique, and expandtheir audiences through community partnerships, productions, and publication. The current membership ofThe Witherspoon Circle includes: David Lee White, Ian August, James Christy Jr., Robert Sandberg, MicheleAldin Kushner, Pandora Scooter, Barry M. Putt Jr., Lisa Huberman, Greg Nanni, Ken Kaissar, and JohnAugustine. facebook.com/witherspooncircle/

Most identified locally in Bucks County for her launching work, publicity efforts & photography in the arts,story-teller, Mandee K. Hammerstein has been entrusted with the responsibility to create and communicatestrategic publicity & advertising programs to best introduce and emotionally connect highprofile andemerging organizations to the public through various news mediums, imagery, events of engagement andspecial promotions.

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