World Premiere of Bublitz's OF SERPENTS & SEA SPRAY Set for Custom Made in January

Custom Made Theatre Presents World Premiere of Award-winning Rachel Bublitz's Fantastical "Of Serpents and Sea Spray" January 7-30, 2016

Press night/opening is Saturday, January 9 at 8:00 pm

San Francisco. December 15, 2015. Custom Made Theatre Company is thrilled to present the world premiere of "Of Serpents and Sea Spray" by award-winning local playwright, Rachel Bublitz. Serpents is directed by Ariel Craft and runs January 7-30, 2016 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter Street, San Francisco 94102.

About Of Serpents and Sea Spray: Iro (Maria Leigh, Late: A Cowboy Song), orphan girl and lover of adventures, is the subject of ridicule by other children and punishment by uncaring foster parents. Then, one day, Iro discovers a mission: find the ancient winged horse, Pegasus. On her quest, taking with her only books and her imaginary friend, Iro begins a mythical journey that will reunite her with another lonely soul, and along the way find the truth about the death of her parents.

Cast: Andrew Calabrese, Sabrina DeMio, Laura Domingo, Maria Leigh, Maria Marquis, and Heren Patel.

Creative Team: Sophia Craven, Nikki Eggett, Brooke Jennings*, Erik LaDue, Stewart Lyle*, Florence McCafferty, Kitty Torres, Ryan Lee Short

*Member, Custom Made Theatre Co.

About Undiscovered Works: Custom Made has been developing Serpents through its "Undiscovered Works" series, which will also include the upcoming world premiere of Sam and Dede, or My Dinner with Andre the Giant. "Undiscovered Works" productions are fully staged, fully realized world premieres, but have a shorter run and less expensive tickets than the other plays in Custom Made's season, in order to encourage the development, and further life, of new work.

Rachel Bublitz is an award winning and internationally produced playwright. She founded the 31 Plays in 31 Days Project, the Loud & Unladylike reading festival, is a Youth Ambassador for the Dramatists Guild of America, and has been a member of the PlayGround Writers' Pool since 2013. In 2015 she was awarded the Anne June Baker Prize and the Emerging Playwright Award from PlayGround. Her short plays have been produced by Subversive Theatre Collective, San Jose Rep's Emerging Artist Lab, Wily West Productions, Playwright's Center of San Francisco, Unity Stage Company, Playwrights Foundation, The One-Minute Play Festival, PlayGround, San Francisco Theater Pub, PianoFight, and others. Rachel has been commissioned by both Custom Made Theatre Company and The San Francisco Olympians Festival. Her play My Body was published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2014. Her other plays include The Fantasy Club, Under The Gods' Golden Cleats, The Red House Monster, Mom's Ham, and Reading Babar in 2070. She has an MA in English and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She lives in the Bay Area.

Ariel Craft is a Bay Area director and arts administrator. She is the Founding Artistic Director of The Breadbox, a company in residence at EXIT Theatre, and is the Producing Associate Artistic Director at The Cutting Ball Theater. Ariel served as Assistant Artistic Director at The Custom Made Theatre Company throughout its 2014/2015 Season and directed Sarah Ruhl's Late: A Cowboy Song last January. Ariel received her BFA with Honors in Theatre from New York University and, following graduation, she was awarded an artistic fellowship at the American Conservatory Theater. Recent Bay Area directing credits include McDonagh's The Pillowman, Lorca's Blood Wedding, and Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Upcoming directing credits include a world premiere adaptation of Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Shudder, a devised horror show drawing upon verbatim text from tales of the Brothers Grimm.

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