Dorset Theatre Festival's New Play Reading Series to Close with Kate Moira Ryan's HIPSTERLY EVER AFTER

Dorset Theatre Festival's 2015 New Play Reading Series concludes on Monday, August 24th with Kate Moira Ryan's Hipsterly Ever After. Ryan is a New York-based playwright whose play The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, produced off-Broadway by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, won a GLAAD Award. She was also a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize for her play Hadley's Mistake. She has received numerous fellowships including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship to EST, the Sundance Institute, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Directing the reading is Mark Armstrong, Director of New Work for off-Broadway's Keen Company and the Executive Director for The 24 Hour Plays. Recent directing credits include Christopher Shinn's The Coming World, Lucas Hnath's Odile's Ordeal (both Williamstown) and Dan O'Brien's From Kandahar to Canada (EST).

Performing in the reading are actors Rory Kulz and Haley Bond. Kulz has performed in The Mysteries directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, Empire Travel Agency at the Woodshed Collective, The Improvised Play at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and the New England premiere of Enrique Urueta's Learn to be Latina at Company One. Haley Bond is also performing in Dorset Theatre Festival's production of I Hate Hamlet (August 20th-September 5th). Her credits include the Weston Playhouse Theatre' s productions of Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike, The Marvelous Wondrettes, Caps n' Gowns, and Saint Ex. She has also performed in It's a Wonderful Life at Irish Rep, and The Seagull and A Midsummer Night's Dream at Circle in the Square.

Hipsterly Ever After tells the story of Daisy and Truman, two charming young artists, deeply in love as they prepare for and celebrate their wedding. When the bright future the pair are planning together is cut short by forces outside of their control, they are forced to confront the tragedy through even deeper intimacy. A beautiful portrait of love in the 21st century, the play never loses its sense of humor, even as it explores the nature of loss.

This year's New Play Reading Series will take place at the Marble House Event Barn as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Dorset Theatre Festival and the Marble House Project. "Our collaboration with the Marble House Project has been enormously successful, and we are so excited to continue working with them to bring great art into the community," says Dina Janis, Artistic Director. "It's also an artistically stunning location for our playwrights and performers to work on these wonderful new plays." This year DTF's acclaimed series has been underwritten by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Foundation, leaders in supporting the development of new work nationally.

The reading will take place on August 24th at 7 pm at the Event Barn at the Marble House Project, 1161 Dorset West Road. Tickets and info are available by calling (802) 867-2223 or online at www.dorsettheatrefestival.or

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