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LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING
An American and his young Greek bride escape to an island and plant a small vineyard. Their harvest ripens, and a fractious American woman arrives uninvited to stir up passions at their first tasting.
May 2-June 6, 2010 -Mondays & Tuesdays at 7:00 pm, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8:00 pm, and Sundays at 3:00 pm.
-Added performances on Sundays 5/16 & 6/6 at 7:00 pm, and Wednesday 6/3 at 7:00 pm. No show Monday 5/31.
Join us for a conversation with artists and scholars after the show on Monday 5/17/10 and Monday 5/24/10.
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VIP Member Tickets $15 at membership@womensproject.org or 212.765.2105
Groups 9+: Tickets $25 at membership@womensproject.org or 212.765.2105
Tickets $52 at Telecharge.com or 212.239.6200
Julia Miles Theater, 424 West 55th Street (just west of 9th Avenue)
New York City
The Playwright
SHEILA CALLAGHAN's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Woolly Mammoth, and Rattlestick Playwright's Theatre, among others. Sheila is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, a MacDowell Residency, a 2005 Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award. She has received grants from NYFA, NYSCA, and the MAP Foundation. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, The Playwright's Foundation, Clubbed Thumb, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include Scab, Crawl, Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play, and Fever/Dream. Several of her plays are published by Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and her monologues can be found in various anthologies. She has taught playwriting at Columbia University, The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, and Florida State University, and she is currently on the faculty at Spalding University's MFA program in creative writing. Sheila is a resident artist at HERE Arts Center and a member of the Obie winning playwright's organization 13P. Sheila is also a resident of New Dramatists.
Currently, Sheila is a writer on the Showtime series The United States of Tara.
The Director
DANEILLA TOPOL’s NY credits include: Trista Baldwin’s Sand (Women’s Project), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City (New Georges), Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End (Epic Theatre), Susan Yankowitz’s Night Sky (Baruch Performing Arts Center/Power Productions), Nicki Bloom’s Tender (Summer Play Festival), Leslie Ayvazian’s Carol and Jill (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Jakob Holder’s Housebreaking (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Zakiyyah Alexander’s Sick? (Summer Play Festival), Peter Gil-Sheridan’s Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), and Stanton Wood’s Snow Queen (Urban Stages). She has directed readings and workshops for a number of NY companies including the Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, the Public, and the Roundabout. Regionally, she has most recently directed productions of Caridad Svich’s Instructions for Breathing (Passage Theatre, NJ), Kim Oler, Alison Hubbard, and Sean Hartley’s world premiere musical of Little Women (Village Theatre, WA) and Trista Baldwin’s Forgetting (Playwrights Center/Workhaus Collective, MN) and has directed workshops of musicals at Goodspeed Musicals and Barrington Stage in conjunction with NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s directing program, Daniella has been the Artistic Program Director at the Lark Play Development Center, the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and the Associate Producing Director of City Theatre. She is a member of the board of the Lark Play Development Center and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and has been a grants review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NY State Council on the Arts and TCG. She is currently working as a resident artist at HERE developing a new multi-media piece on floods with Sheila Callaghan, Katie Down, Leah Gelpe, Mimi Lien, and Tyler Micoleau. Upcoming productions include: Stretch (People’s Light and Theatre Company), Sarita (Fordham University), and a workshop of Rosa (Richard Rodgers Award Winner – presentations at the Public Theatre and Queens Theatre in the Park).
The Casting Director
ALAINE ALLDAFFER is the Casting Director for Playwrights Horizons and The Huntington Theater in Boston. Theater credits include Deadman's Cellphone with Mary Louis Parker (PWH), Grey Gardens (PWH and Broadway), Walmartopia the musical, Knights of Prosperity (ABC), ED (NBC). Currently in the works is This with Parker Posey at Playwrights Horizons. She credits Lisa Donadio as co-casting director for Lascivious Something.
The Designers
MARSHA GINSBERG (Scenery) -- Check back for bio!
CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND (Lighting)Broadway: Superior Donuts, Top Girls, 110 In The Shade (Tony nom.), Well, Awake and Sing! (Tony nom.), Rabbit Hole, A Touch of the Poet, In My Life, The Light In The Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards), The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars (Tony nom.), The Piano Lesson among others. Recent: KDO! (Foret Nationale, Brussels), Kafeneion (Athens Festival); Garden Of Earthly Delights (Minetta Lane); Orpheus X (TFANA); Kaos (NYTW). Awards: Obie, Michael Merritt Award, etc.
THERESA SQUIRE (Costumes) -- Check back for bio!
BROKEN CHORD COLLECTIVE (Sound Design and Original Music) composes and designs music and sound for theatre. The sound design and music for Lascivious Something was created by collective members Daniel Baker and Aaron Meicht. Other credits include productions in New York at Atlantic Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Juilliard, Keen Company, La Mama E.T.C., Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Second Stage Theatre, and Women’s Project. Regional credits include productions at Dallas Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, Hartford Stage, The Huntington, Long Wharf Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington DC), Weston Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Passage Theatre Company and Yale Rep. www.brokenchordcollective.com.
The Producers
WOMEN'S PROJECT
produces and promotes theater created by women, providing a stage for women’s perspectives on a wide variety of political, social, religious, and cultural topics. Now under the leadership of Julie Crosby, Women’s Project was founded in 1978 by Julia Miles to address the conspicuous under-representation of women artists in the American theater; even today, only 20% of production opportunities are provided to women playwrights and directors nationwide. Now entering its fourth decade, Women’s Project has staged over 600 mainstage productions and developmental projects, and published ten anthologies of plays by women. Countless artists have achieved significant recognition through Women’s Project productions, including Anne Bogart, Eve Ensler, Lynn Nottage, Maria Irene Fornes, Suzan-Lori Parks, Naomi Wallace, and Anna Deavere Smith, among the many. Women’s Project mentors talented artists through its free, two-year artistic residency Lab for directors, playwrights, and producers, and reaches over 2,000 students annually through Ten Centuries of Women Playwrights, an arts education program. In 1998, Women’s Project purchased a historic off-Broadway venue—christened the Julia Miles Theater in 2004—on Manhattan’s West 55th Street, making Women’s Project the first and only women’s theater company to hold the keys to its own stage.
 CHERRY LANE THEATRE originally developed Sheila Callaghan's Lascivious Something in our Obie-Award winning Mentor Project program, and we are thrilled and honored to be collaborating with the Womens’ Project to present the play and these artists’ work to New York audiences. A landmark in Greenwich Village’s cultural landscape, Cherry Lane Theatre serves as a vital lab for the development of new American works and the cultivation of a diverse, multigenerational audience. Our primary focus is the playwright as central to the dramatic event and the text as intrinsic to theatrical innovation and excellence. As New York City’s longest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre, Cherry Lane has helped to define American drama, fostering theatre that is daring and relevant for 85 years. Since 1997, our resident company produces under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Angelina Fiordellisi and Managing Director James King. Mainstage productions include our Discovery Series, new plays developed within our award-winning programs and our Heritage Series which features groundbreaking off-broadway classics presented at Cherry Lane since 1924. Our 60-seat Studio Theatre, built in 1998, has been the incubator for hundreds of new plays where CLT Company and guests have developed and produced the work of emerging playwrights. Our newest space, the 90-seat Cherry Pit, located at 155 bank street, is home to Solo Fest at the Pit, NY Fringe Festival, late-night, alternative and avant-garde programming, as well as a home for Naked Angels and other not-for-profit companies. Join the Cherry Lane community: support playwriting and the future of American drama. To sponsor playwrights and productions, please call 212-989-2020 extension 26. To view our entire production history, visit our website, www.cherrylanetheatre.org.
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