New Works by Neil LaBute & John Guare Headline SEVEN CARD DRAW at Dixon Place

Brand new monologues by prolific and controversial writer/director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Nurse Betty, The Shape of Things and Reasons to be Pretty) and legendary playwright John Guare (House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation) highlight a three-night presentation of new dramatic works at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side).

Five Story Walk Up: Seven Card Draw, a sequel to the 2007 hit show Five Story Walkup, runs March 16th-18th at 8:00pm. Seven Card Draw showcases never-before-staged plays and monologues by seven authors: LaBute, Guare, gothic monologist Clay McLeod Chapman, playwrights Quincy Long, Laura Shaine, Daniel F. Levin and the show's producer/director, Daniel Gallant.

Mr. Gallant is the Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; he previously served as the Director of Theater and Talk Programming at the 92nd Street Y's Makor and Tribeca centers.

Seven Card Draw reunites the seven authors who contributed new plays and monologues to the original Five Story Walk Up, a benefit production that raised over twenty thousand dollars for the 13th Street Repertory Theater in 2007. The seven short works that premiered during the run of Five Story Walk Up were subsequently published in Applause Books' anthology THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS OF 2007-2008.

Seven Card Draw features darkly comic tales of risk and reward. Guare's monologue "What It Was Like" describes life in 1970s Manhattan, when the author was living in John Lennon's former apartment and watching the city fall apart while building his own theatrical career. The prolific Quincy Long (whose plays have been staged at venues including the Mark Taper Forum, the Atlantic Theater Company, E.S.T. and South Coast Rep) will debut his short play "The Huntsmen", in which a lawyer discovers that his son may have committed a violent crime and must decide whether to protect or prosecute. Laura Shaine (author of popular plays and memoirs including Sleeping Arrangements and Beautiful Bodies) contributes "Beware of Waiter," a dark screwball comedy in which a young urbanite couple visits an eccentric restaurant and meets a waiter who is secretly obsessed with an endangered species.

Celebrated monologist Clay McLeod Chapman (creator of "The Pumpkin Pie Show" and author of the books rest area and miss corpus) will perform a chilling new work. Daniel F. Levin (author of the NYTimes-lauded holiday show Hee-Haw: It's a Wonderful Lie and the musical To Paint the Earth) conjures a haunted historical re-enactment in "What Really Happened, starring Abraham Lincoln." In Daniel Gallant's "Determined to Prove," a sheepish young man uses a Shakespeare monologue to pull off an elaborate con. And Neil LaBute rounds out the evening with "Totally", in which a young woman exacts an unusual revenge against her philandering mate.

Seven Card Draw will run for only three performances at Dixon Place; tickets are now available at the link below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE PRODUCTION AND ARTISTS,
contact Daniel Gallant at 917-841-4420 or gallant.arts@gmail.com

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT DIXON PLACE,
Visit www.dixonplace.org or call 212-219-0736

FIVE STORY WALKUP: SEVEN CARD DRAW
At DIXON PLACE
161A Chrystie Street b/w Rivington & Delancey
Subway: F to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker, JMZ to Bowery, B/D to Grand

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March 16 at 8:00PM;
Wednesday, March 17 at 8:00PM;
Thursday, March 18 at 8:00PM

TICKET PRICES
$15 Full price; $12 for students and seniors

TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Visit https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/7810755

FOR DIRECTIONS OR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE THEATER,
Visit www.dixonplace.org or call 212-219-0736