La MaMa to Present Heather Litteer's LEMONADE, 4/15-24

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club will present the World Premiere of Heather Litteer's solo show LEMONADE, directed by Elena Heyman (Erin Markey's Deleted Scenes From Fun Home; Becca Blackwell's They, Themselves and Schmerm) for a limited engagement April 15-24, 2016 at The Club at La MaMa (74A East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery) with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 6pm. Tickets ($18/$13 students & seniors) are available online at www.lamama.org or by calling 646-430-5374. The show runs approximately 60 minutes, with no intermission.

Heather came to the Big Apple to become an actress. She worked her way up the ladder, playing hookers, junkies, and strippers. You know, the parts that most actresses are afraid to play. Then came the role of a lifetime...

Heather LItteer's gripping, funny, heartfelt solo show explores how women are treated both onscreen and off. Her adventures as an actress and downtown darling are mixed with calls back home to her ill but steel magnolia of a mother, whose southern roots are so strong they can suffocate. Navigating the absurd misogyny of our mediaverse, Lemonade turns female exploitation on its head, and offers redemption to any woman who has even been typecast.

The production team will include Script Supervisor Mike Albo, Assistant Director/Production Manager Callie Farnsworth, Dramaturge Lucy Sexton, and Lighting Designer Mary Ellen Stebbins.

HEATHER LITTEER (Playwright/Performer) is an actress and performance artist and chanteuse originally from Georgia but now calls NYC her home. She is a member of Caden Manson's Big Art Group touring internationally and in the states. Hebbel Theater, (Berlin, Germany), Festival d'Autome a' Paris (Paris, France), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria), REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA), and Yerba Buena Arts Center (San Francisco, CA). In New York Heather has performed at The Kitchen, La MaMa, Abrons Art Center, Bruno Walter Theatre Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, The Wild Project, HERE Arts Center, The New Museum, Guggenheim Museum and BAM Avery Fisher Hall. Most recently she participated in The Jeff Weiss Tribute, And That's How the Rent Gets Paid and other scenes at The Kitchen, Directed By Brooke O'Hara with Musical Direction by Nicky Paraiso. She is also the recipient of the 2014 Fox Fellowship with The William and Eva Fox Foundation and TCG. As Part of her Fox Fellowship she traveled to Umbria, Italy in summer 2015 to study playwriting with Branden Jacob Jenkins at The La MaMa Summer Symposium. She produces a reading series W.O.(e).R.D. Women of experience read Downtown. Her daring film choices include working with directors Mary Harron, Jane Campion and Darren Aronofsky. Most recently she played the sexual revolutionary Queen Bee in John Reed's Film ReVo and Vicky a killer for hire in Dumbo with Brazilian director Gustavo Von Ah'.

ELENA HEYMAN (Director) is a New York City theatre director. She directed The Traveling Imaginary; a theatrical rock show rated "top five shows of the year" by NPR and a Time Out "Critic's Pick" on two continents. Elena is the Co-Artistic Director of The Orbiting Human Circus with Julian Koster (Neutral Milk Hotel). She directed the solo shows of Erin Markey, Deleted Scenes from Fun Home, and Becca Blackwell, They, Themself & Schmerm. Elena's work has been presented by The Kennedy Center, The Drama League, New World Stages (Incite Festival), Abrons Art Center, Bushwick Starr, Banana Bag & Bodice, Boston Center for American Performance, En Garde Arts and indie rock clubs across America. Currently Elena is developing Elevation 509 in Bulgaria with Yasen Vasilev through the generous support of The Drama League. She is a graduate of Northwestern and Boston Universities (MFA) and a Drama League Directing Fellow. www.elenaheyman.com