Attic Theater Presents SMUDGE Thru 9/4

The Attic Theater presents "Smudge", a dark comedy about the changing face of the American family, today through September 4, 2011.  Performances are 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2:30 p.m. Sundays. SMUDGE is written by Two-Time Emmy Award Winner Rachel Axler and directed by Roberto Prestigiacomo. It stars Susanna Morrow, Ross Olsaver, and Brad Milne

Tickets are $10 - $20.

The Attic Theater is located at Trinity University, 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio.

For further information, please call: 210-999-8524 or visit: atticrep.org/ or email: admin@atticrep.org

About The Playwright

RACHEL AXLER is a playwright and Emmy-winning television writer. Her play, Archaeology, premiered at The Kitchen Theatre in 2009. Other plays of hers have been developed through The Lark Play Development Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Playwrights Foundation and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Rachel has held fellowships at The Dramatists Guild and The Lark, and is currently working on commissioned plays for South Coast Rep and Lincoln Center Theater. Humor pieces of hers have been published in The New York Times, In Character and two editions of Monologues for Women, By Women. For television, Rachel wrote for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for several years, where she received the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program and three Writers Guild Award nominations. She now writes for Parks and Recreation, on NBC. Rachel received her BA from Williams College and her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD. Member: Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild.