2012 Groundworks New Play Series

terraNOVA Collective presents

Groundworks
A New Play Series
April 10-15 @ The New Ohio Theatre

terraNOVA Collective kicks off the first annual Groundworks New Play Series, featuring the new plays generated by the 2012 Groundbreakers Playwrights Group, and other terraNOVA new play development projects. GroundWorks is terraNOVA's new initiative to showcase its new play development projects and expose this work to artistic leaders and industry professionals.

Groundworks will run April 10-15 at The New Ohio Theatre, and will feature:

Tuesday, April 10 @7pm
Pig Shit & The Frozen City by Robert Askins
Directed by José Zayas
Featuring Denny Bess, Steven Boyer, Geneva Carr, Jackie Collier, Matt Huffman, Preston Martin, 
Chinasa Ogbuagu, Shawn Randall, Scott Sowers, Meg Wolf, Karin Wolfe
Pig Shit is a good boy at the end of the world. He works in the Hog Farm, dreams of the frozen city and fears the vast burning waste in between. 
That is until the ghost of Gunslinger rises from a pile of shit and starts an adventure that will change their world forever.

Wednesday, April 11 @7pm
Animals Commit Suicide by J. Julian Christopher
Directed by José Zayas 
Featuring David Anzuelo, Nic Grelli, Vincent Ingrisano, Armando Riesco, Yolonda Ross
Chance Stevens has a high-end job, classic good looks, and the attention of anyone he wants in the NYC gay scene. 
Yet something is missing in his life that he cannot live without. He embarks on a dangerous journey of self-discovery only to find 
the very best and the very worst of a new community of which he so desperately wants to be a part.

Thursday, April 12 @7pm
The Death of the Slow'Dying Scuba Diver by Matthew Paul Olmos
Directed by May Adrales
Featuring Jackie Chung, Crystal Finn, Anna Kull, Jose Joaquin Perez, Steven Rishard, Juan Villa, Colleen Werthman
What if a scuba diver hung murdered in the center of the ocean? What if an Asexual Shrimp started to turn sexual?  
And what if the portal to this troubling ocean'world was beginning to widen through the ordinary toilet of an unsuspecting suburban couple. 
As the two worlds collide, the distance between science and human nature begins to collapse. 

Friday, April 13 @7pm
Me You Us Them by Andrea Lepcio
Directed by Jo Cattell
Featuring Carlo Alban, Angelina Fiordellisi, Daniel Irizarry, James Kraft, Eric Lockley
Two B-Boys find each other in a vacant lot anywhere in the world, while a woman sits alone at her desk searching for answers on the Internet. 
Another kid arrives on the scene and an explosive connection is made between the boys and the woman’s Avatar. 
Bound by a search for the Center of Things, the four new friends invent the ultimate battle plan.

Saturday, April 14 @2pm
The Seer and the Witch by Jennifer Lane
Directed by Kimberly Faith Hickman
Featuring Megan Channell, Jed Dickson, Sofia Jean Gomez, Maria Maloney, Jens Rasmussen, Carly Robins
The past and present collide in the forms of Eleanor and Emily, two women who haunt the same room at the Elgin Institute of Mental Health. 
Though they live a century apart, finding each other may be their only hope of a life outside hospital walls.

Saturday, April 14 @7pm
4Edges by Crystal Skillman
Directed by John Hurley
Featuring Reyna DeCourcy, Dion Mucciacito, Susan Louise O'Connor, Timothy McKown Reynolds 
An outsider stumbles into a foreign land in search of the perfect photograph, but ambition draws her dangerously deep 
into the lives of a woodcutter and his family when she participates in a ritual that exposes her own desires. 

Sunday, April 15 @2pm
The Absence of Weather by Ken Urban
Directed by Stephen Brackett
Featuring Kevin Geer, Polly Lee, Scott Sitman
May 1949. James Forrestal, President Truman's Secretary of Defense, attempts suicide and his wife commits him to the Bethesda Naval Hospital. 
The architect of the Cold War thinks the Russians have not only infiltrated the U.S. government, but are hiding in the bushes outside his home. 
If a man makes decisions he's not proud of, even if it's for the larger good, is that man still right?  

Sunday, April 15 @7pm
Unhinged: A Silent Opera by Krista Knight
Directed by Jessi D. Hill
Featuring Michael Early, Lanna Joffrey, Aaron Roman Weiner, Jennifer Dorr White
House painter, Glen, is transfixed on the only house that he never finished. When its childhood inhabitants return to sell the home we discover 
a deeply buried secret that binds him to the family.  And why hasn’t he ever been invited inside? 

Stage Management: Allison Cottrell, Matt Hundley, Damon Heath Sager
Lighting Design: Dante Olivia Smith

The New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street (btw Greenwich & Washington), NYC
Sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery and Monsieur Touton Wine