| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY Announces Its 2024-2025 Season | |
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| ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES ITS 2024-2025 SEASON FIVE WORLD PREMIERE PLAYS FROM Ethan Coen, NSangou Njikam, Mona Pirnot, Abby Rosebrock, and Eliya Smith World Premiere Play A FREEKY INTRODUCTION Written by & starring NSangou Njikam Directed by Dennis A. Allen II Featuring DJ Monday Blue Linda Gross Theater October 16 – November 17, 2024 World Premiere Play GRIEF CAMP By Eliya Smith Directed by Les Waters Linda Gross Theater January – February 2025 World Premiere Play I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN By Mona Pirnot Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll Starring David Greenspan Atlantic Stage 2 January – February 2025 World Premiere Play LET'S LOVE! By Ethan Coen Directed by Neil Pepe Linda Gross Theater March – April 2025 World Premiere Play LOWCOUNTRY By Abby Rosebrock Directed by Jo Bonney Linda Gross Theater May – June 2025 Atlantic Theater Company ( Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce its 2024-2025 season of five world premiere plays. Atlantic's 2024-2025 season will include the world premieres of NSangou Njikam's A Freeky Introduction directed by Dennis A. Allen II, Eliya Smith's Grief Camp directed by Tony Award nominee Les Waters, Mona Pirnot's I'm Assuming You Know David Greenspan directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, Ethan Coen's Let's Love! directed by Tony Award nominee Neil Pepe, and Abby Rosebrock's Lowcountry directed by Tony Award nominee Jo Bonney. Plus, an Atlantic for Kids musical to be announced soon! Atlantic members receive exclusive access and up to 47% savings on tickets. Memberships begin at $50 and benefits include a priority booking period, no additional fees, unlimited exchanges, discounted guest tickets, and more! For more information or to purchase an Atlantic membership, visit atlantictheater.org/join/membership or call 646.452.2220. ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY 2024-2025 SEASON World Premiere Play A FREEKY INTRODUCTION Written by & starring NSangou Njikam Directed by Dennis A. Allen II Featuring DJ Monday Blue Linda Gross Theater October 16 – November 17, 2024 EVERYBODY SAY YEAH! Everybody talks about freedom, but few know how to get there. That's because they don't know their Freek. Fear not, Freeky Dee is here with a mix of poetry, ministry, and magic...plus I got a DJ with me. Together, we'll move you past your fears and doubts to bring your inner Freek all the way out! You wanna get free? Then come get your Freek on! World Premiere Play GRIEF CAMP By Eliya Smith Directed by Les Waters Linda Gross Theater January – February 2025 It's summer in Hurt, Virginia, where a lone cabin fills each year with campers. There's homecooked breakfast and an army of box fans and lots of shifting in the dark. Welcome to Grief Camp: a study of loss and adolescence. World Premiere Play I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN By Mona Pirnot Directed by Ken Rus Schmoll Starring David Greenspan Atlantic Stage 2 January – February 2025 One 68-year-old man plays four millennial women in a comedy (full of drama) about how to make a living as a playwright (or to try.) World Premiere Play LET'S LOVE! By Ethan Coen Directed by Neil Pepe Linda Gross Theater March – April 2025 Let's Love! is a comedy, a trio of one acts, that explores love in all its miserable glory. The world is a confusing place and we are a confused people. But it's easier to be confused together, so---let's love! World Premiere Play LOWCOUNTRY By Abby Rosebrock Directed by Jo Bonney Linda Gross Theater May – June 2025 When Tally, a down-and-out actress and gig worker, returns to her rural hometown, she swipes right on a disgraced high-school teacher fresh out of an ankle bracelet. Lowcountry is a dark, twisted romcom about the psychic distress of looking for love in the digital age and the carceral state. BIOGRAPHIES A FREEKY INTRODUCTION NSANGOU NJIKAM (Playwright and Performer) is an actor, playwright and Hip Hop Theatre artist originally from Baltimore, MD. His writing credits include Syncing Ink, Re:Definition, When We Left parts 1 & 2, I.D., 21 STRINGS, and he is one of seven writers of Hands Up: Seven Plays; Seven Testimonials. Acting credits include Syncing Ink (Victoria Stage at the Apollo), Re:Definition (LaMama), Henry V (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Deep Azure (Congo Square Theatre). NSangou's play Re:Definition (Hip Hop Theatre Festival reading) was developed and directed by Chadwick Boseman. NSangou has also written for and collaborated with Grammy Award winner Common, specifically on his Audible.com project "BlueBird Memories," the 2020 NBA All Star Game, and the Audible interview series "Mindpower Mixtape." His Hip Hop Theatre play, I.D. (commission by Penn State University) premiered at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. NSangou is a member of the 2015 Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater as well as a member of UNIVERSES, a theatre company fusing jazz, blues, hip hop, Spoken Word, and Spanish boleros. He received his BFA in Acting from Howard University. After tracing his African ancestry, he received his name from the Bamum King in Cameroon. NSangou is also an initiate of the Yoruba spiritual tradition Ifa, under the training of Chief Ayanda Clarke. DENNIS A. ALLEN II (Director ) is a multi-hyphenate in the world of theatre. As a director he has had the pleasure to direct and develop new plays by NSangou Njikam, Aziza Barnes, Tanya Everett, a.k. payne, Thaddeus McCants, Rudi Goblen, Craig "Mums" Grant, Kemiyondo Coutinho, Maria Smith, Hayley Spivey, Keith Josef Adkins, and more. Allen also directed the Brooklyn College 2022 production of Fucking A by Suzan-Lori Parks. As a playwright, his play The Mud is Thicker in Mississippi won the 35th annual Off Off Broadway Samuel French Festival. He is the recipient of Atlantic Theater Company's inaugural Launch Commission, Clubbed Thumb's Early-Career Writer's Group, and National Black Theatre's "I Am Soul" Playwright Residency. He also served as the National Playwriting Program Vice Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival region 1. An adjunct professor at LaGuardia Community College, Montclair State University, The New School, and is the Co-Program Director for the MFA Playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Dennis received his MFA from Brooklyn College's Playwriting program. DJ MONDAY BLUE (Performer ). A daughter of the Southern Diaspora, DJ Monday Blue is a Brooklyn-based DJ who plays music to help you unlock your old memories while creating new ones. With over ten years experience as a disc jockey, Monday Blue has worked with organizations and brands such as The Meteor, Soho Grand Hotel, Weeksville Heritage Center, Soul in the Horn, The Pulitzer Prizes, Spelman College, Black Girls Love Vinyl, 651 Arts, Virgin Hotels NYC, H&M, Andscape, and Buy From A Black Woman. Monday Blue plays both digital and analog, but her heart beats with vinyl. A featured DJ at Soho Grand Hotel in New York City, Monday Blue is also the official tour DJ for the Buy From A Black Woman Inspire Tour presented by H&M. Additionally she performs in the theatrical realm. Monday Blue was the onstage DJ for Stacey Sargeant's production Buh Wha' Trouble is Dis? as part of New York Theatre Workshop's 2019 summer residency at Dartmouth and also lent her skills to Life In Sepia: Vermont's Black Burlesque Revue in 2021. Monday Blue is the founder and resident DJ of Doyennes of Disc, a vinyl party featuring all women selectors. You can listen to and watch her live when she pops up to stream "Follow Your Bliss With Monday Blue" on twitch.tv/DJMondayBlue . GRIEF CAMP ELIYA SMITH (Playwright) is a writer from Ohio. Her plays have appeared at Ice Factory Festival, HERE Arts Center, the American Repertory Theater, ISLE Theater Company, the Harvard Playwrights' Festival, the Cohen New Works Festival, and the MadLab Young Writers' Festival. Her work has received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Phyllis Anderson Foundation, which awarded her its prize for the best play by an undergraduate or graduate student at Harvard. Her prose writing has been a finalist for awards from New Letters and the Society of Professional Journalists and nominated to "Best American Essays." She has worked for The New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and at The Jewish Forward. She is currently pursuing her Playwriting MFA as a Michener Fellow at UT Austin. LES WATERS (Director) is a Tony nominated and Obie Award-winning director. His New York credits include Broadway, NAATCO, Vineyard Theatre, Public Theater, Soho Rep, Second Stage, BAM Next Wave Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Connelly Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Signature. He has worked at many theaters across the country – Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Huntington Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre. Tony Award nomination for Dana H., Obie Awards for Big Love and Sustained Excellence. He is both subject and co-author of The Theatre of Les Waters: More like the Weather, edited by Scott T Cummings, published by Routledge. I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN MONA PIRNOT ( Playwright). Mona's play I Love You So Much I Could Die premiered at New York Theatre Workshop (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel Award nominations). Her play Private premiered at Mosaic Theater of DC and was later produced by San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (Helen Hayes nomination for Best New Play, SF Chronicle Best Theatre of 2023). NYTW Usual Suspect, EST/ Youngblood alumni, 2019 Playwright in Residence at Williamstown Theatre Festival, winner of the 2022 Berwin Lee Brown Playwrights Award. KEN RUS SCHMOLL ( Director) is a two-time Obie Award-winning director whose work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Foundry Theatre, Encores! Off-Center, BAM Next Wave, Page 73, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, The Guggenheim, Tanglewood, Spoleto Festival USA, Long Wharf Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Marin Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Bard SummerScape, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays, among others. He directed David Greenspan's solo, spoken rendition of Gertrude Stein's Four Saints in Three Acts for the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the world premiere of Mr. Greenspan's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey at Two River Theater, as well as Mr. Greenspan's radio plays (There's) No Time for Comedy and Loops for Playwrights Horizons Soundstage. DAVID GREENSPAN (Actor) has appeared in his plays, Dead Mother, She Stoops to Comedy, Go Back to Where You Are, I'm Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Memory Motel, and his solo plays The Argument and The Myopia. His adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey premiered at Two River Theater under the direction of Ken Rus Schmoll. Between 2011 and 2022, he developed and performed solo renditions of three American plays from the late 1920's: Barry Conners' romantic comedy The Patsy, Eugene O'Neill's six-hour, nine-act modernist drama Strange Interlude, and Gertrude Stein's radically experimental Four Saints in Three Acts – the last under the direction of Ken Rus Schmoll. He has worked with many contemporary playwrights – drawing notice recently for Joey Merlo's solo play On Set With Theda Bara. Honors include six OBIES. LET'S LOVE! ETHAN COEN (Playwright) has written three previous evenings of one acts, Almost an Evening, Offices, and Happy Hour, all directed by Neil Pepe at Atlantic Theater Company. His full-length play Women or Nothing was directed by David Cromer, also at Atlantic, and he contributed a play to Relatively Speaking, a Broadway trio of short comedies whose other contributors were Woody Allen and Elaine May. Coen has written a collection of stories, "Gates of Eden," and two collections of poems, "The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way" and "The Day the World Ends." Coen has made 21 movies, mostly with his brother Joel, lately with his wife Tricia Cooke. The latest is called Honey Don't! NEIL PEPE (Director) received a Tony Nomination for Best Director for the production of American Buffalo. Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody, Speed-the-Plow, A Life in the Theatre. Off-Broadway/Regional: A Play Is A Poem (CTG); Juno and the Paycock (Irish Rep); On the Shore of the Wide World, The Penitent, Marie and Rosetta, Hold on to Me Darling, Dying for It, 3 Kinds of Exile, Happy Hour, Offices, Almost an Evening, Parlour Song, The Night Heron, Mojo, Celebration, The Room, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Sea of Tranquility, Blue/Orange, Wolf Lullaby, Cornelia Street (Atlantic); The Subject Was Roses, Keep Your Pantheon, Romance (Center Theatre Group, Atlantic); Red Angel (Williamstown); Further Than the Furthest Thing (MTC); The Beginning of August (South Coast Repertory, Atlantic); American Buffalo (Donmar Warehouse, Atlantic); Refuge (Playwrights Horizons). Neil has been the artistic director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992. LOWC OUNTRY ABBY ROSEBROCK ( Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and performer from the Carolinas. Her plays have been commissioned, developed and produced throughout New York City and across the country. Select works include Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theater Company), Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Echo), Singles in Agriculture, Wilma, and more. Interests include spirituality, female abjection, and Chekhov. She is currently working on several audio, film, and TV projects in development. JO BONNEY (Director ) has directed the premieres of plays by: Alan Ball, Hilary Bettis, Eric Bogosian, Eleanor Burgess, Hammaad Chaudry, Culture Clash, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Isaac Gomez, Danny Hoch, Ione Patricia Lloyd, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Martyna Majok, Lynn Nottage, Dan O'Brien, Dael Orlandersmith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Darci Picoult, John Pollono, Will Power, David Rabe, Jose Rivera, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Alexis Scheer, Christopher Shinn, Diana Son, John Turturro & Ariel Levy, Universes, Naomi Wallace, Michael Weller. Plus plays by: Caryl Churchill, Nilo Cruz, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Fuller, Lisa Loomer, Paul Lucas, Carey Perloff, Lanford Wilson. Tony Award nomination for Cost of Living, two Obie Awards for Sustained Excellence of Direction, Lucille Lortel Best Musical and Lucille Lortel Best Revival, Drama Desk nomination for Direction of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Audelco Award for Father Comes Home from the Wars. Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Alliance and Lilly Award. Editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG). ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director). At Atlantic, our aim is singular—to empower simple and honest storytelling that fosters greater understanding of our shared world. We are a family of artists dedicated to exploring essential truths onstage, be it a show at Atlantic Theater Company or a class at Atlantic Acting School. As a producer, presenter, and educator of theater, we are driven by the belief that theater can challenge and transform our ways of thinking and urge us to reflect on our role in society. From our Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning productions to our community-based education programs, we are committed to uncovering and celebrating the stories of our varied human existence. Founded as an ensemble of impassioned artists in 1985, Atlantic Theater Company has grown into a powerhouse Off-Broadway company. We challenge, inspire, and awaken audiences with truthful storytelling presented across our two venues, the Linda Gross Theater and the intimate Stage 2 black-box. As a producer of compelling new works, we are committed to championing the stories from new and established artists alike, amplifying the voices of emerging playwrights through our deeply collaborative programs and initiatives. We have produced more than 200 plays and musicals including Tony Award-winning productions of Kimberly Akimbo (David Lindsay-Abaire, Jeanine Tesori), The Band's Visit (David Yazbek, Itamar Moses), Spring Awakening (Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik), and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Martin McDonagh); Pulitzer Prize recipients Between Riverside and Crazy (Stephen Adly Guirgis) and English (Sanaz Toossi); New York Drama Critics' Circle winners for Best New Play The Night Alive (Conor McPherson) and Best Foreign Play Hangmen (Martin McDonagh); Obie Award winners for Best New American Play Guards at the Taj and Describe the Night (Rajiv Joseph); and Obie Award Special Citation recipient Skeleton Crew (Dominique Morisseau). ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY'S LINDA GROSS THEATER is located at 336 West 20th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). Atlantic memberships start at $50. To lock in savings of up to 47% and exclusive access including a priority-booking period, and unlimited exchanges, join online by visiting atlantictheater.org/join/membership or calling 646.452.2220. For information on Atlantic memberships, visit atlantictheater.org/join/membership or email membership@atlantictheater.org. |
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