LAFPI

February 9 – March 19
Thurs-Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm

IN ESSENCE, A QUEER AND OCCASIONALLY HAZARDOUS EXPLORATION; DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND YOU READ ABOUT SHACKLETON AND HOW HE EXPLORED THE ANTARCTIC?; IMAGINE THE ANTARCTIC AS A PUSSY AND IT’S SORT OF LIKE THAT

Directed by Lindsay Allbaugh

Featuring: Karen Anzoategui, Anna Lamadrid, Tracey Leigh, Elyse Mirto, Courtney Rackley

Jen Silverman is a New York-based playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Her theatre work includes THE MOORS (Yale Repertory Theatre, off-Broadway at The Playwrights Realm), PHOEBE IN WINTER (Off-off Broadway at Clubbed Thumb), THE ROOMMATE (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Florida Studio Theatre, Everyman Theatre, SF Playhouse), THE DANGEROUS HOUSE OF PRETTY MBANE (InterAct Theatre: Barrymore Award, Steinberg Award citation), and COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN 5 BOOPS (Woolly Mammoth, The Theater @ Boston Court). The world premiere of ALL THE ROADS HOME is upcoming at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Jen is a member of New Dramatists, a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, and has developed work with the O’Neill, Williamstown, New York Theatre Workshop, Playpenn, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Portland Center Stage, The Ground Floor Residency at Berkeley Rep, and the Royal Court in London among other places. She’s a former member of Youngblood @ EST, a two-time MacDowell fellow, recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the Helen Merrill Award, and the Yale Drama Series Award. She is the 2016-2017 Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark. She has a two-book deal with Random House for a collection of stories and a novel. Education: Brown, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard.

Rebecca Wear, Assistant Director
Maggie Swing, Production Stage Manager
Meg Fister, Casting Director
Jenny Smith Cohn, Prop Designer
Ann Closs-Farley, Costumer Designer
Karyn Lawrence, Lighting Designer
Hana Sooyeon Kim, Projection Designer
Peter Bayne, Sound Designer
Francois-Pierre Couture, Scenic Designer

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