Following a sold-out Salt Lake City run Plan-B Theatre Company announces that ERIC(A) by Matthew Ivan Bennett will open the 2014 Season at Theatre Out in Santa Ana, CA, running January 3-5, 2014. Tickets $20. On sale October 1 at theatreout.com.
Eric used to be Erica...and this is the story of when he fell for a woman for the first time.
Playwright Matthew Ivan Bennett has been Plan-B's resident playwright since 2007, where seven of his plays - including DI ESPERIENZA, BLOCK 8, MESA VERDE and ERIC(A) - received their world premieres. His short play THIS IS NOW was produced by Theatre Out in 2012.
Actress Teresa Sanderson began working with Plan-B in 1993. She has created roles in six Plan-B productions by Matthew Ivan Bennett. ERIC(A) is her first solo play.
Director Jerry Rapier has led Plan-B Theatre Company since 2000.
Theatre Out is Orange County's LGBT theatre company.
Plan-B Theatre Company has has published four anthologies and presented work at in at Der Lesbisch-schwules Kulturhaus in Frankfurt, Germany; at Toronto's Fringe Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival; in San Francisco and even off-Broadway.
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